Fernanda Gomes: An Exhibition Exploring Minimalism, Found Objects, and Spatial Art
Experience artworks crafted from humble, everyday materials, engaging with light, proportions, and the exhibition space.
Delve into the compelling work of Fernanda Gomes, an artist renowned for transforming inexpensive, found materials into profound sculptures and collages. Her distinctive approach bridges Arte Povera and Minimalism, inviting viewers to consider the relationship between artwork, light, and its surrounding environment. Explore how Gomes orchestrates everyday items into precarious, site-specific structures.
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Exhibition summary
This exhibition showcases the work of Fernanda Gomes, an artist known for creating objects and collages from inexpensive, everyday materials. Her pieces, often untitled, draw parallels with Arte Povera and Minimalism, exploring the relationship between sculpture and painting within specific spatial contexts.
Curatorial context
Since the 1980s, Fernanda Gomes has been creating objects and collages from humble, inexpensive materials, drawing formal connections to Arte Povera, Minimalism, and Brazilian Constructivism. Her exhibitions often feature a multitude of objects distributed across floors and walls, organized spatially or rhythmically. She arranges found, discarded, or everyday items into fragile, precarious structures, utilizing only white, which she considers a 'receptive color' that reveals subtle shifts in light. Gomes engages deeply with exhibition spaces, observing light, proportions, and materials to inform her site-specific arrangements. She views empty spaces as full of information and embraces the lightness of possibility in her creative process, emphasizing the immaterial nature of things and the primal language of playing with objects. A key component of this exhibition is Gomes' artist book, conceived as an object in itself, featuring blank pages with inserted elements that form an autonomous work and are integrated into the exhibition's ensemble.
Admission and ticket notes
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Fernanda Gomes key exhibition facts
Review exhibition status, schedule, venue context, and attribution details for Fernanda Gomes at Secession in Vienna
Venue
Secession
Current status
Completed
Exhibition schedule
Apr 12, 2019 – Jun 16, 2019
Artist line / attribution
Fernanda Gomes, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
Vienna
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