Artists: Cyrcle, Jan Kaláb, Ox, Rero, Andrey Zignnatto, and Aníbal Vallejo.
TRANSBORDER
January 30 – February 28, 2016
Fabien Castanier Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA
The exhibition centers around artists who challenge the idea of boundaries within art, both physical and ideological borders. Each artist presents new work for TRANSBORDER, examining the transitory elements of shape, color, form, and context within art making. The group exhibition takes a survey of how the language of both abstraction and figurative form can be conveyed throughout vastly different corners of the world. Across borders of both time and space, these artists have created connectivity and conversation through creation.
From the curator
This exhibition aims to bring together, in a single physical space, artists from five nationalities, while also focusing on the artists’ variations in approaches, practices and techniques. So why did I want to bring these artists together in the same space and time? But also, why Transborder?
Firstly, art is for me a pretext for meetings and travel. Art is above all a human adventure. However art is also a coming together of objects, materials, and works that evoke an “emotional shock” that drives viewers to evolve ideas, perceptions, life trajectories and constructs of reality. I ask you to search your memory for a time that you, as a viewer, experienced a work by an artist you did not know, yet you sensed an inexplicable vibration. That same sensation in that precise moment has driven my desire to curate Transborder, to evoke these emotionally compelled experiences in viewers.
I have the feeling that what unites us all is the fact that we are all in the “fold”, i.e. that we have decided to place ourselves consciously or unconsciously to the limit of inside and outside as Michel Foucault suggested. “We must escape the alternative of outside and inside: we must be the border.”
TOP: Jan Kaláb | Black Planes, acrylic on cut-through canvases, 44 x 48 in. (112x121cm)
January 11, 2016 Aníbal Vallejo https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/anibal-vallejo/
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Contenedor – Contenido”, 2015, Synthetic polymer on rope, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Mónica González.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Sin Título (Mapa)”, 2015, Mixed media. 30 pieces, all have different sizes, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Aníbal Vallejo.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Progresión”, 2015, Laser cut on canvas, 300 x 120 x 50 cm. Photo credit: Mónica González.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Progresión”, (Detail), 2015, Laser cut on canvas, 300 x 120 x 50 cm. Photo credit: Mónica González.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Sin Título (Dibujo, 2015)”, 2015, Synthetic polymer on rope, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Mónica González.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Sin Título (Dibujo, 2015)”, (Detail), 2015, Synthetic polymer on rope, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Mónica González.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Plano”, 2015, Manual embroidery on canvas, 80 x 100 x 4 cm. Photo credit: Carlos Tobón.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Ritmo (Díptico)”, 2014, Manual embroidery on canvas, 2 pieces150 x 120 cm each, 150 x 100 x 4 cm. Photo credit: Carlos Tobón.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Ritmo (Díptico)”, 2014, Manual embroidery on canvas, 2 pieces150 x 120 cm each, 150 x 100 x 4 cm. Photo credit: Carlos Tobón.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Sin Título”, 2015, Manual embroidery on canvas, 40 x 50 x 3 cm. Photo credit: Mónica González.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Sin Título”, 2014, Acrylic and rope on canvas, 80 x 100 x 4 cm. Photo credit: Carlos Tobón.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Sin Título”, 2014, Acrylic and graphite on canvas. 2 pieces 150 x 100 x 4 cm each. Photo credit: Carlos Tobón.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Trama”, 2014, Manual embroidery and acrylic on canvas, 180 x 120 x 4 cm. Private collection. Photo credit: Carlos Tobón.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Unrepeatable Pattern”, 2014, Manual embroidery on canvas, 180 x 120 x 4 cm. Photo credit: Carlos Tobón.
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- Aníbal Vallejo, “Objeto”, 2015, Synthetic polymer and gesso on wood, 29,5 x 29,5 x 19,5 cm. Private collection. Photo credit: Aníbal Vallejo.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- 1996-2000: No., Universidad de Antioquia / Facultad de Artes Plásticas, Medellín, Colombia.
- 1998-2000: No., Colegiatura Colombiana de Diseño / Diseño de Moda, Medellín, Colombia.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2015: “Progresión / Gradación”, Museo de Arte de Pereira MAP, Pereira, Colombia.
- 2015: “Progresión“, Lokkus Arte Contemporáneo, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2013: “Paisaje sin lugar“, Galería Duque Arango, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2012: “Hobnobbing at the Garden of Earthly Delights“, Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA.
- 2009: “De bichos y modas entre telas“, Galería de la oficina, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2008: “Is the glass half empty or half full?”, Museo El Castillo, Medellín, Colombia.
Group Exhibitions
- 2015: “Qué es el presente?”, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín MAMM, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2014: “Línea Blanda”, Galería Sextante, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2014: “Reserva expuesta”, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín MAMM, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2013: “Sans lieu ni tête / Sin lugar ni cabeza”, Mark Hachem Galerie, Paris, France.
- 2013: “La gente en la colección del museo”, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín MAMM, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2013: “Latinamerican Art Showcase”, ION Art Gallery, Singapore, Singapore.
- 2011: “Dream Catcher II“, Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA.
- 2011: “Colombia en Mérida”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Yucatán MACAY, Mérida, Mexico.
- 2010: “Dorado”, Fondo Internacional de las Artes FIART, Madrid, Spain.
- 2009: “Casa de Citas”, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2009: “Corte 50”, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín MAMM, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2008: “Nuevas Adquisiciones”, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín MAMM, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2008: “Imagina+A Umbral Gráfico Colombiano”, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín MAMM, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2006: “Summer Group Show”, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy.
- 2005: “Spring Group Show”, Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
- 2005: “Small Treasures”, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy.
- 2004: “Summer Group Show”, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, USA.
Collections
- Related Group, Miami, USA.
- Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín MAMM, Medellín, Colombia.
- Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.