Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
ADENTRO: Cuando la mirada refleja
ADENTRO: Cuando la mirada refleja
A Constantino Carvallo
PAISAJE 1: Mirar adentro. Paisajes mentales es el título de la exposición individual que presenta Alessandra Rebagliati en la Galería Vértice. El conjunto plantea un ejercicio de contemplación, un posicionamiento de la mirada en soledad. Los sentidos a los que alude esta perspectiva pasan por la experiencia del exilio y del desarraigo. Las inscripciones en la piel de cuerpos anónimos en actitud contemplativa, describen proyecciones simbólicas de alcances poéticos, que median entre la realidad y la imaginación de la artista.
TIEMPO. Estos retratos podrían describirse como “vanitas”, porque nos sitúan frente al mundo en soledad, aludiendo así a la inherente dimensión temporal de nuestra existencia. La muerte como única certidumbre está presente en cada uno de los retratos. Aquí son pertinentes las referencias a las pinturas románticas de Caspar Friedrich, “Mujer ante el ocaso” y “El caminante sobre el mar de nubes” (1818). Al retomar al retrato de espaldas frente a la naturaleza de la obra Friedrich, Alessandra nos conduce a una identificación por alteridad: tomar el lugar de ese otro que nos da la espalda, de ese otro que no nos mira. Miramos el paisaje a través de él, y nos vemos reflejados en ese paisaje al tocar su piel con nuestros ojos. El paisaje pasa a ser la proyección indesligable de nuestras emociones. Estamos entonces en una posición de poder pero también de vulnerabilidad.
IDENTIDAD. La soledad se expone desde una mirada “pura”, que observa larga y fijamente; una experiencia a la vez universal y específica. Cada frase escrita tiene una razón y un azar de ser, remite a hacer conscientes experiencias que se convierten en lenguaje, en símbolos. El individuo volteado, sumido en la contemplación, descubre su identidad en la escritura que marca su piel: total, sensible, moral, limitada, con un pasado, vacía, llena de ideas.
PAISAJE 2: Mirar de afuera. El horizonte libre o interrumpido de la costa de Lima aparece como un territorio donde la artista reinscribe su historia, su pasado, su propia identidad. ¿Por qué mira desde fuera? Porque no vive en Lima. Su mirada es entonces foránea, aunque busque pertenencia. Sus ojos reflejan desarraigo. Los cerros áridos de la costa se ven invadidos por la modernidad de las torres eléctricas, el paisaje urbano se muestra hostil, contaminado por arquitecturas y redes tecnológicas. Las puertas viejas que juega a abrir y cerrar un niño-adulto describen un sentimiento de nostalgia y también una condición pasajera, de viajero, de migrante. La arquitectura monumental del Hospital Rebagliati se asienta en esta ciudad poéticamente configurada por Alessandra en su horizonte. Esa ciudad es ella, ahora. En este punto su perspectiva, que aparentaban neutralidad, se hace corpórea y adopta la entidad gris del cielo que la acoge. Del cielo y el mar que detienen su mirada y la nublan.
Miguel Zegarra
Miraflores, 18 de agosto de 2008
INSIDE: When the glance reflects
To Constantino Carvallo
LANDSCAPE 1: Inside glance. Mental Landscapes is the title for Alessandra Rebagliati’s first solo show at Galeria Vertice, Lima Peru. As a whole the work presented requires an exercise of contemplation, a fixing of a solitude glance. The senses to which this perspective alludes, refers to the experiences of exile and uprooting.
The writings on the skin of anonymous bodies in contemplating attitude describe symbolic projections of poetical achievement, that mediate between reality and the artist’s imagination.
TIME. This portraits could be describe as “vanities’, because they situate us in front of the world in solitude, alluding in this way the temporal inherent dimension of our existence. Death as the only certainty is present in each of the portraits. Here the references to the romantic paintings from Caspar Friedrich are pertinent, “Woman in Front of the Setting” and “The Wanderer above the Mists” (1818). By taking up again the portraits backwards in front of nature from Friedrich’s work, Alessandra is driving us to an identification by alterity: take the place of that other who is staring at us from the back, who is not looking at us. We glance the landscape through the character and we reflect ourselves in that landscape by touching their skins with our eyes. The landscape becomes the unbreakable projection of our emotions. We are then in a dual position of power and vulnerability.
IDENTITY. Solitude is exposed from a “pure” glance that stares in a long and fixed way; a universal and specific experience at the same time. Each phrase written have a reason and a chance of being, they refer to the making of conscious experiences turned into languages, symbols. The back turned individual, submerged in contemplation, discovers it’s identity in the writing which marks its skin; total, sensitive, limited with a past, empty, full of ideas.
LANDSCAPE 2: Outside glance. The free or interrupted horizon from the Lima coastline appears as a territory where the artist rewrites her history, her past, and her own identity. Why is she staring from the outside? Because she lives abroad from Lima. Then her glance is foreigner and has belonging at the same time. Her eyes reflect her uprooting. The dry hills from the coast are invaded by the modernity of the electrical TV towers; the urban landscape appears hostile and contaminated by architectures and technological networks. The old doors where a young adult plays to open and close them, describe a feeling of nostalgia and also a passing condition of a traveller, a migrant. The monumental from the ‘Rebagliati Hospital’ is situated in this poetically configured city by Alessandra’s horizon. The city is herself, now.
At this point her perspective, which apparently was neutral, becomes corporeal and adopts the grey entity, which accepts her. From the sky and the sea that freezes her gaze and blurs it.
Miguel Zegarra
Miraflores, August 18,2008
Sunday, 24 April 2011
Alessandra Rebagliati
Lima,1972
Lives and works in Lima
2006 - Master in Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins College, London, UK.
2011
Solo show at Centro Cultural Inca Gracilaso de la Vega, Lima Peru.
2010
LIMAPHOTO, GALERIA VERTICE, LIMA PERU
2009
Shed & a Half Gallery, London UK 16/10/09-30/10/09
“The Game & the Illusion”, Photography & video
2008
GALERIA VERTICE, LIMA PERU 17/9/08-30/9/08
Photography & video
www.galeria-vertice.com
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
GALERIA VERTICE, LIMA PERU 4/3/09-27/3/09
“En Tránsito al Paraíso’ Migrations Imaginarium
2007
BUENOS AIRES PHOTO FAIR, BAIRES ARGENTINA 7/11/07-11/11/07
Represented by Vértice Gallery, Lima Peru
BIENAL FOTONOVIEMBRE 2007, TENERIFE. SPAIN, VIIl International Photography Biennale,
Atlantic’s Collective Show
TAHOE GALLERY, SIERRA NEVADA COLLEGE, USA 13//9/07-26/10/07
Vern Group Show, Behind Closed Doors, A Contemporary Intl Art Show
2006
UNIVESITY of the ARTS, CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS COLLEGE
of ART& DESIGN, London, UK, 1/9/06-9/9/06
MA Fine Art Degree show
55 MERCER GALLERY, NYC, USA 18/7/06-05/08/06
Vern Group Show, Vern in Heat
WALKER POINT CENTER for the ARTS, Milwaukee, WI. USA, 23/3/06-06/05/06
Vern at WPCA, Vern Group Show, Inner Spaces/ Outer Limits
QUIK & DIRTY, LONDON UK, 02/02/06-05/02/06
Central St. Martins
MA INTERIM SHOW Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf
2005
BIENAL FOTONOVIEMBRE 2005, TENERIFE. SPAIN,
VII International Photography Biennale,
Atlantic’s Collective Show
1-5 GALLERY AT BREWERY, LOS ANGELES, USA, 30/09/05-30/10/05
‘Interjacent’, Vern Group Show
ELCONTAINER GALLERY, QUITO ECUADOR, 27/09/05-14/10/05
Peruvian Contemporary Photography, New Generation
2004
ESPEJO 5, MADRID, SPAIN, 5/6/04-29/5/04
Vern Group Show
THE CANVAS GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 20/12/03-15/1/04
‘Placebo’, Vern Group Show
2003
FAC, Contemporary Art Festival, BARRANCO, LIMA-PERU, 19/11/03-19/12/03
Photography Group Show
KUNTHAUS TACHELES, NEUE GALERIE 4+5, BERLIN GERMANY, 5/9/03-24/9/03
Vern Group Show
CANAL DE ISABEL II MADRID-SPAIN, 10/4/03- 18/5/03
CANAL ABIERTO, X Image Study Days “Fashionables”
Comisary: Agustín Pérez Rubio
2002
CANAL DE ISABEL II MADRID, SPAIN, 19/4/02
FORUM, CANAL ABIERTO, VIII Image Study Days, about ‘Sex’
2001
CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES DE MADRID, SPAIN, 16/7/01-29/7/01
‘Portraits’, group show
CANAL DE ISABEL II MADRID-SPAIN, 5/4/01-22/4/01
CANAL ABIERTO, VII Image Study Days, about “Mystery”
Curator: Rafael Doctor Ronceros
OTHERS
BRITISH PERUVIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, John Harriman Gallery LIMA PERU, 16/9/97-30/9/97 NEW VISIONS, IAF group show, (Photographic Art Institute), Photographic Month
CASONA DE ORBEGOSO, TRUJILLO-PERU, 20/9/95-6/10/95
THE INTOLERANCE OF THE MEMORY, Duo Show
FRENCH ALLIANCE, PIURA -PERU, 6/12/94-16/12/94
DEPUROMANATURAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Duo Show
Self Organised Solo Exhibitions
BAR “MAS CORNADAS DA EL HAMBRE” MADRID, SPAIN, 7/11/02- 6/12/02
B/W photography solo show
BAR “ LA NOCHE” LIMA- PERU, 1/5/03-31/5/03
B/W photography solo show
Experience
She taught art workshops at MNCARS,Spain and Primary Schools in Hackney,UK.
She has participated in Portfolio Reviews at Rhubarb-Rhubarb 2007 Festival in Birmingham, UK, as well as at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, UK.
She has taken part in Photoespaña debates in 2003 and 2004 as well as participated in short courses at La Casa Encendida in Madrid Spain.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)