Furini Arte Contemporanea at Art Rotterdam 2012

      

For its first participation at Art Rotterdam – New Art Section, FURINI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA (Rome- IT) is delighted to present a project by Brazilian artist Marlon de Azambuja. The intervention from the Operation series consists in completely covering a wall of the exhibition space with adhesive stickers in their original sleeves and, by an apparently minimum intervention on the ordered placement of some stickers, to obtain the maximum effect on the observer’s visual participation, being about a deep work on the perception. This disorder intends to create an uncomfortable space in the viewer's sight, a sensation that things are out of place, thus allowing the reflection on how one simple gesture can generate such visual chaos. This project is part of the Marlon de Azambuja larger production, founded on the research of forms present in the reality yet not straight recognizable, thus on the exploitation of elements taken for granted so as to become invisible. This aspect is then projected onto the mental process related to concepts and ideas.
Operations is a different approach to the themes developed by Marlon de Azambuja: the context, the individual in its space, the synthesis of the complex, the analysis of the parts on the whole and their synergy, the change of the meaning and the perception with a minimal gesture besides the new identity born from an old one, just by a suggested idea. The Operation series is one of the latest landfall, subtler but strong nonetheless.

The Marlon de Azambuja’s work comes into its own using different media such as photography, video, installation, intervention, sculpture, drawing without any limits, because he feels every language possible to express an idea. He is in favour of a popular art, made by common and simple materials as coloured adhesive tape, paper, print, photo and ink, to promote and diffuse and idea of a new language devoted to the communication without using commonplaces, just showing the ideas in a different way we expect them. Therefore, new identities made by new languages to make the idea we have in our mind but allready forgotten, or impossible to express because deep in our memory.

He starts from the real vision to urge a mental view, causing an emotion and generating the sense of the idea. This kind of process doesn’t stop after the comparison with the artwork but continues to generate forms, objects, ideas in the viewer’s mind, such as the new language keeps its translation in different contexts. Sometimes with big interventions, like Potencial Escultorico, creating new forms in the urban contest or in public spaces using coloured adhesive tape; others with real objects (Tate Modern 2010-2011, New Museum 2010, cages with the form of museum architectures to underline the relevance of the container on the content), or drawing on urban environment pictures to make new figures linking elements of the space (Metaesquema) where, as time is passing by, the images in the background will fade, but not the new ink works.

Part of the new production are the collages on paper Nuovo Ampliamento and the drawings on paper Nuevos Barrios, clever considerations on architecture, its symbols and methods, and the building expansion with its effects on the urban look.


booth 68

8 - 12 February 2012
Cruise Terminal Rotterdam
Wilhelminakade 699
Rotterdam

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