Arte Entre 4 Linhas in Solar Art Gallery
07/12/2017
Closing the activities of 2017, Solar Art Gallery promotes, from December 7 on, the exhibition Arte Entre 4 Linhas (Art Between 4 Lines), by the artist Felipe Barbosa. The spectator will be presented to new configurations of an iconic symbol of Brazilian sport: the soccer ball.
Faced with a review of the three-dimensional soccer ball, open (not stitched) and agglomerated (again stitched), the artist reveals aspects such as the mathematics behind leather hexagons in arrangements, combinations, and even fractal formulations. His production creates a dialogue between mathematical games and art, subverting the meaning of objects between geometric shapes and signs.
Connecting sport world to art world, Barbosa already got to use the equivalent of 300 balls in a unique creation. Singular, now also uses paintings stamped by various types of sport balls – basketball, soccer, volleyball, polo-aquatic – to highlight a new chromatic color.
“As for Sufis and Pythagoreans, I believe that the numbers and their symmetries represent the stages of creation, so I try to play with the abstract and create a new world of possibilities with my art,” says the artist.
About the artist
Felipe Barbosa was born in 1978, in Rio de Janeiro, graduated in Painting from UFRJ, and is a master in Visual Languages by the same institution. In his works, he combines elements of daily life and makes references to Art History, changing the meanings of the objects he chooses to transform, creating in his spectator a simultaneous sensation of proximity and discomfort. He has been exhibiting regularly since 2000 in several countries around the world, including Mexico, the United States, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Lithuania, France, Canada, Holland, England, Argentina and Japan. Among his recent exhibitions, are featured Campo de las Naciones, at Soto Gallery, in Madrid, Spain; The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, at Miami Art Museum in the United States; Futbol Arte y Passion, at MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterey, Mexico; and Consuming Cultures – A Global View, 21C Hotel-Museum in Kentucky, also in the United States.
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Arte Entre 4 Linhas Exposure:
Curated by Osvaldo Carvalho
Period: December 7th through February 24th
Visitation: from Monday to Friday: 9 am to 6 pm – Saturdays: 9 am to 1 pm
Address: Solar Art Gallery – Saint Roman Street, nº 146, Copacabana – Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Free entrance
Phone: (21) 3202-6900
