Jose Vera Matos 2013
Alberto Borea Wanderings
Donatello
Edi Hirose- Wanderings
Illustrated-Moodboard-by-Rosa-and-Carlotta-Crepax
July 18th – July 20th The Rag Factory 16-18 Heneage Street, E1 5LJ London, United Kingdom
Wanderings is curated by Hannah Thorne and produced by ELX Art and Illustrated Moodboard, with support from Galería Lucia de la Puente.
An exploration of cultural, municipal and institutional boundaries and correlations, Wanderings documents the varying approaches to city life of a select group of emerging European and Latin American artists.
The work on display forms disparate and personal, yet ultimately connected trails for the viewer to navigate. The common link is a series of reactions to urban life, but the show also testifies to the universal bonds of artistry and provides a fascinating report on the state of art internationally. As such, Wanderings also represents the labyrinth faced by young artists in the 21st century: the search for identity, integrity and international exposure, balanced against expectation and the forces of culture and economy.
The creation of this departure into a maze of indiscernible odds emerged from the inquiries of a set of young, predominantly Goldsmiths’-based curators, entrepreneurs and artists. Wanderings demonstrates their commitment to form a multi-cultural, international artist collective. With a selection of work sourced from three different organisations, Wanderings is the starting point of a set of curated relationships that will evolve over time, aided by proposed international residencies and exchanges.
Wanderings is curated by Hannah Thorne and produced by ELX Art and Illustrated Moodboard, with support from Galería Lucia de la Puente.
About The Artists
ALBERTO BOREA was born in Lima, Peru in 1979. His work has been exhibited in several solo shows, as well as group shows in Latin America, Europe and the U.S. He most recently participated in “New York” at the Museum of Americas Washington DC, 2012/ “Salvajes” at the Traneudstillingen, Denmark, 2012/ “Remesas: Flujos Simbólicos” at Fundación Telefónica Perú, 2012/ “Dublin Contemporary” –the Dublin Biennial, 2011/ The “S-Files” -El Museo del Barrio Biennial 2011: among others. He has participated in different programs and artist residencies including Skohwegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2008), Art Omi International Artists Residency (2009), The International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP). He lives and works between New York and Lima and is represented by Galería Lucia de la Puente.
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ROSA & CARLOTTA CREPAX are twin sisters from Milan and London- based visual artists. Their work is influenced by fashion and fashion photography. They use a wide range of media to create elegant, colourful and whimsical interpretations of style, contemporary life and culture. Their work aims to address questions of equality, diversity, inclusion and exclusion in relation to gender and sexuality. Their work has been featured in the pages of publications worldwide including Vogue Italia, Glamour, Grazia, Amica, Io Donna, La Repubblica, and Il Corriere della Sera. They have collaborated with a series of brands including Trussardi, Absolut Vodka, Tia Maria, and Pinco Pallino. They live and work in London.
?WILLIAM GOLDSMITH was born in Athens in 1986 and studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art. He has supplied comics for Art Review, Anorak Magazine, The Independent and the British Council in Moscow amongst others. William’s work derives from acute observational ability and a profound sense of the absurd. He travels across Europe frequently filling notebooks with details of the everyday. He resides principally in Glasgow. His most recent published work is a collection of short graphic stories centred on the fictional Eastern European town of Ystov. The stories follow all the intricate details of the everyday around the town’s residents. His work for Wanderings was inspired by a recent residency in Brussels.
EDI HIROSE was born in Peru in 1975. He studied photography at the institute Antonio Gaudí, Lima. Since 1996 he has participated in various group exhibitions in Peru, and abroad. He worked with Steve Mc Curry for the Earth, Lavazza project. Some of his solo exhibitions have been: 13th Istanbul Biennial, 2013/ “Expansion” at Galería Lucia de la Puente, Peru 2013/ XXX Sao Paulo Biennial, 2012/ “Intervención- MALI” at Galería Lucia de la Puente, Peru 2010/ “Indicios” at Galería Lucia de la Puente, Peru 2008/ “Pozuzo” at Instituto Culutral Peruano Alemán, Arequipa Peru, 2006/ and “Proyecto Pozuzo” at Centro Cultural de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru 2005; among others. His work forms part of several collections, such as: Société Générale in Paris, France/ Fundación Blanco in Madrid, Spain/ The Ignacio Garza Collection in Medina, Mexico/ MALI, Peru.
JENNIFER MATIGNAS PITCHERS studied illustration at Camberwell College of Arts and lives and works in London. Born in 1985 to British and Filipino parents, her personal work focuses on identity, belonging and a sense of place. Often linear in style, she explores traditional ink techniques and experiments with etching and relief printing. Her work for Wanderings is inspired by her native Whitechapel. She has previously worked in collaboration with fashion designer Coco Fennell and Samsung. She is currently the Artist in Residence at the Gate Theatre, a role supported by the Chelsea Arts Club Trust. Jennifer is represented by ELX Art.
JOHNATAN MOLINA ARROYO was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1986. Johnatan’s work experiments with different disciplines (blacksmithing, carving, animation, photography) seeking the right material for the work in progress and eventually forging a personal code from a strong sense of responsibility towards art. In 2010, he began working as a production assistant to Peruvian sculptor, Aldo Chaparro in his studio in Mexico City. His most recent solo exhibitions have been: “We the living” at Estudio Aldo Chaparro, Mexico City, 2012/ “Dead animal revival manual”, at exhibitions have been: “We the living” at Estudio Aldo Chaparro, Mexico City, 2011. He has participated in the following group exhibitions: “Function follows form” at Estudio Aldo Chaparro, Mexico City, 2012/ “Illustrators night” at Miami Ad School, Mexico City, 2014.
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JOSÉ VERA MATOS was born in Lima, Peru in 1981. He studied at the School of Visual Arts Edith Sachs and the Superior National School of Fine Arts of Peru. In 2012 he received the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation scholarship for Latin American artists for a residency at Vermont Studio Center, and Triangle Arts in NY. His work has been shown in various solo and group exhibitions in cities such as Lima, Mexico City, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Bogota, New York, among others. Recently he participated in the Superreal, Alternative Realities exhibition in photography and video in the Quarter Museum in New York city. He currently lives and works in Lima, Peru.
JACOB WOLFF studied at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Byam Shaw and is currently completing an MA in sculpture at the RCA. He has shown work at Modern Art Oxford, Carte Blanche and Median Studios and has won the The Coutts Cowley Manor Arts Award 2014. Jacob values the importance of his hands in making work and views manual intelligence as distinct from both thoughts and tools. He often begins by using materials that can be used and understood intuitively. By using basic building blocks such as grids, patterns or colour combinations that serve the structure of the work, Jacob aims to create fused metaphors – art that can be made and experienced as a whole. Jacob lives and works in London and is represented by ELX Art.
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