{"id":2620,"date":"2013-10-18T21:12:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2013-10-18T21:15:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:15:23","slug":"tatiana-blass-johannes-vogt-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=2620","title":{"rendered":"Tatiana Blass @ Johannes Vogt Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Johannes Vogt Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery’s first solo show with Brazilian artist Tatiana\u00a0Blass. For her debut in New York, Blass will present a recent body of work centering around the\u00a0scenario of the interview. The exhibition is composed of two iron sculptures, a suite of oil paintings,\u00a0and a video work featuring theatrical performance.<\/p>\n

As part of the artist\u2019s practice, Blass composes figurative sculptures out of microcrystalline wax that\u00a0become fluid over the duration of their exhibition. Antagonized by spotlights and heating elements,\u00a0the sculptures slowly deform and are overtaken by entropy. In the recent works on display, Blass\u00a0takes up the theme of the interview, composing paintings and sculptures in which subject, audience,\u00a0and medium break down into one another. Approximating the process of the melting wax, these\u00a0figures become trapped in between fixed states. As the figures soften and blur, they lose their definite\u00a0forms, and the line between subjects becomes obscured.<\/p>\n

In the paintings and sculptures, Blass engages the dialectics between the subject and the recording\u00a0apparatus. Instruments of modern technology present anything but a clear medium: human figures\u00a0and recording instruments appear sucked into one another, collapsing into single forms. In the series\u00a0of paintings, figures are seen merging into their surroundings, out of which the ominous, near\u00a0incomprehensible motif of the camera emerges.<\/p>\n

This strain is amplified in the video Hard Water, where communication becomes subject to\u00a0the whims of language, to linguistic play. Two actors engage in an absurd conversation of\u00a0misunderstanding, during which they become progressively entangled in the numerous threads that\u00a0bind their clothing to the surrounding walls of the stage. The physical stage records the labors and\u00a0actions of the two women, visually representing the linguistic entanglement that only worsens as\u00a0they fight to regain clarity.<\/p>\n

Tatiana Blass was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1979. Her work spans sculpture, painting, video and\u00a0installation. She has been featured in the 2010 Sao Paulo Bienal with a performance based piece\u00a0called \u201cPiano Surdo.\u201d She was nominated for the famous PIPA Prize in both 2010 and 2011. She\u00a0succeeded to win the prize in 2011 with her piece “Blinding Light – Seated” that was exhibited at the\u00a0Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. This year Blass was given her first US solo show at the\u00a0Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. Her works are part of collections such as CIFO, Miami and\u00a0the museums of modern art in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. She is currently featured with a profile in\u00a0the September issue of Modern Painters and was shortlisted as one of Art+Auction\u2019s\u00a0\u201c50 most collectible artists under 50.\u201d<\/p>\n

l\u00e1 no site<\/a>\u00a0Johannes Vogt Gallery<\/p>\n