Las Palmas De Gran Canaria (EFE).- The Atlantic Center of Modern Art (CAAM), in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, brings together from this Thursday the “Corpographies” and the “Matrix” of the Brazilian creators Analivia Cordeiro and Paula Scamparini, two exhibitions with which he once again shows off his commitment to tricontinentality, equality and sustainability.
This was stated in the presentation of some exhibitions with which this artistic center closes the first block of international exhibitions this year, the Minister of Culture of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Guacimara Medina, who has considered that through initiatives such as these, so connected to the Canarian reality, they aspire to “shake consciences” and ensure that in the future art has a lot to say” and there are more free and autonomous people.
Orlando Britto, artistic director of CAAM and curator, together with Fernanda Lopes, of the first individual exhibition of the Brazilian artist Paula Scamparini to be exhibited in Spain, “Matriz”, has explained that this project brings together a selection of unpublished works, photography and video, as well as installations produced by this artistic center in Gran Canaria.
Paula Scamparini (Brazil, 1980) is a prominent multimedia artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. She currently works as a professor in the Sculpture Department of the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In her work, she reflects on identity issues and those related to nature.
Scamparini is a multidisciplinary artist who works essentially from the audiovisual territory, a medium in which she deploys her thinking around the value and symbolic power of the image as a matrix, while exploring and developing its possibilities.
On a formal level, his photography has been extrapolated throughout almost two decades of work towards other orders, such as video, ceramics, the objectual and the sculptural, the installation and the sound territory, Britto explained.
In “Matrix”, this artist shows a selection of unpublished works through which she tries to generate a debate on the female body and its conversion into the body of a woman-mother.
Thus, Paula Scamparini incorporates into her fully subjective work unavoidable cultural, social and political debates from another way of being in the world.
Analivia Cordeiro, also Brazilian, presents a retrospective project at CAAM, curated by Claudia Giannetti, in which she brings together a selection of the most representative works of her professional career, created between 1971 and 2022.
Cordeiro is a choreographer, artist and researcher. Pioneer of video art and video dance in Brazil, she is one of the first creators in the world to study moving body tracking systems by computer.
“Corpographies” has been exhibited in different countries and cities around the world, such as London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles (USA) or São Paulo (Brazil), the city where Cordeiro lives and works.
The works of this artist are present in museum collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum (London); ZKM-Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (Germany); BEEP Collection of Electronic Art (Barcelona); Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (Madrid); Museum of Concrete Art and Design (Ingolstadt, Germany); USP Museum of Contemporary Art (São Paulo), and Museum of Modern Art, MoMA (New York).
The CAAM will display these two exhibitions from this Thursday until June 18. EFE