15th March – 27th April 2013 Rosenfeld Porcin 37 Rathbone Street London W1T 1NZ
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Rosenfeld Porcini presents the inaugural UK solo exhibition by South American artist Eduardo Stupía opening tonight Thursday 14th March.
The exhibition will present works on canvas and works on paper displayed over both floors of the gallery space. It follows on from Stupía’s recent retrospective as a featured artist of the 2012 Sao Paulo Biennial.
Stupía’s paintings have emerged out of a continual exploration of the possibilities of drawing. Working almost exclusively in black and white with occasional interventions of colour, Stupía draws upon an extensive palette of marks and techniques within a single canvas. He uses materials such as pencil, charcoal, acrylic, graphite, watercolour and ink to push the boundaries of each medium as far as possible, yet succeeding in creating final works of harmony and integrity.
The originality and beauty of Stupía’s work is in his rare ability to allow the “spirit” of each medium to dictate its own space without unbalancing the unity within the whole. He believes that “examining the boundaries of a discipline is a healthy approach to painting.”
His work is further underpinned by an idea of an imaginary landscape which, as the artist himself states, is a landscape “intended in the language of the organisation of structures and space, rather then a genre or theme”.
Stupía actively trusts the spectators’ creativity in the hope of them subjectively interpreting the works’ various lines, marks and brushstrokes. The reality behind the artist’s drawing and painting become mirage-like where each viewer perceives their own personal narrative in the work. Where his early work depicted characters, creatures and objects in an otherworldly landscape, his later work during the 1980s featured surreal architectural forms, hidden cities and dreamlike landscapes.
His new series of landscapes featured in this exhibition are in themselves a synthesis of over twenty-five years of experimenting with diverse mediums.
About The Artist
Eduardo Stupía was born 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lives and works. Having trained as a graphic designer, Stupía was recently a featured artist of the 2012 Sao Paulo Biennial. He has had solo exhibitions at numerous galleries and museums such as IVAM, Valencia; Caraffa Museum, Argentina; and Recoleta Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires. His work is held in several private and public collections such as Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); One of his works on paper (Sin título, ink on paper, 1985) has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA). He also sits as a member of the jury in many local and national prizes.
