Exhibition Carla Guagliardi - Galerie kajetan Berlin

until 16.11. | #4410ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 14. September 2024 (Vernissage: 13.09.) the exhibition onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço?/where is the time I left in this space? by the artist Carla Guagliardi.

Galerie kajetan presents the second solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Carla Guagliardi (*1956) entitled Onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço? / where is the time I left in this space?

Carla Guagliardi | onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço? / where is the time I left in this space? | Exhibition view 2024
Courtesy Carla Guagliardi & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider

For her minimalist installations and assemblages, the artist uses industrial materials such as concrete, copper, rubber, iron, wood and glass, which she combines with ephemeral elements such as air and water. The concept of time plays a decisive role here, which the artist makes visible as an active, formative material – as in her most recent in-situ works. Her works are characterized by stable and fragile moments, visible and hidden elements and a precarious balance. Whether a rope stretched to the maximum, latex balloons filled with air or a large glass ball full of water hanging in the room in a questionable way – the works tell of their temporality in their parts and as a whole, testify to interdependencies and reveal their vulnerability.

Carla Guagliardi | onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço? / where is the time I left in this space? | Exhibition view 2024
Courtesy Carla Guagliardi & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider

“In recent years, I have embarked on an artistic path that has developed from a predominant research into sculpture. This research dealt with time as the decisive factor among other aspects. I experiment with the proximity of different materials and explore the phenomenon of time (the passage of time) and its immediate effects on matter and space.

Carla Guagliardi | às Parcas e ao Edi (Parcae) | 2 / 3 | 1995 / Parcae | Glass sphere with 3 mouths, distilled water, one bunch of thin cotton threads, one bunch of thin stainless steel wires, one bunch of thin copper wires and time | Variable dimension / diameter of the glass 29,5 cm | The montage of the piece offers several variations according to the given space
Courtesy Carla Guagliardi & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider

As my works show, there is a poetic language that allows for an exchange between internal organic, fluid substances, leaving room for possibilities as well as speculation. Nevertheless, no artistic work can be separated from the subjective intention of the artist, even if it is only about purely physical and material properties. The materials combined here create a connection from which new material qualities develop, most of which center on physical concepts such as equilibrium, density, matter, capillarity, and so on. These works, in which the physical character does not exist virtually, symbolically or exemplarily, but in the truest sense of the word, are nevertheless subjective and emotional constructs.

My intention is to continue with such projects and to perfect some aesthetic and externally visible aspects that have emerged as questions in the course of my work and the experience I have gained. I would like to continue working with space in its expansiveness and the human fear embodied in it, to allude to constantly changing perceptions through confrontation, paradox and refraction, and ultimately to speak of the uncertainty, instability and fickleness of contemporary life,” says Guagliardi himself.

The artist stands in the tradition of Brazilian neo-concretism, which sought to abolish the separation of art and life and activate the viewer’s participation in the artwork. In Guagliardi’s case, this goes hand in hand with a subtle sense of humor. The artist draws on conceptual art and minimal art, including the Italian Arte Povera movement, but expands the postmodern artistic concepts to include symbolic layers of meaning and the fundamental aspect of time, which she materializes in her works. Her reduced sculptural poetics deal with universal themes of the human condition that seem more topical than ever.

Vernissage: Friday, 13. September 2024, from 6 to 9 pm

Exhibition period: Saturday, 14. September – Saturday, 16. November 2024

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Exhibition Carla Guagliardi – Galerie kajetan Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

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