Jeremy Mora We're Still Waiting for the Water

16.10.2009 - 14.11.2009
Jeremy Mora presents us objects that have been developed in response to his interest in the tradition of the Miniature. Bonsai, dollhouses, dioramas, architectural models, and model trains…just a small fraction of the vast realm of the miniature. Normally miniatures serve as man-made representations of an untouched, utopianized environment. They are idealized settings that are built, maintained, manipulated and monitored by people. They embody a system of complete control over a ‘natural’ environment - a very pertinent topic of discussion for our contemporary context. Jeremy Moras interest in creating small scale objects or places lies in the relationship between the conceptual underpinnings of the idealized miniature and the evolving relationship between man and nature. His intention is that the finished objects may serve as historical reflections, as well as subtle predictions of a questionable future.

In association with:

Marlon de Azambuja Three Proposals for the City of Lisbon

19.06.2009 - 25.07.2009
In his second exhibition in Portugal Marlon de Azambuja presents us three different but interrelated bodys of work. Around 200 photographs and drawings occupy the walls forming a long route through Lisbon, a route that the artist has already made in Madrid (city where he lives now) and in São Paulo. The photographs are taken on the streets, more specifically of the ground of Lisbon, formerly the calçada (characteristic paving of Lisbon) or the regular asphalt. The objects on the images are sewage covers, gutter, access covers to electrical and phone wire. Those objects are evidence of our civilization and traces of the sub-structure of our daily life. Marlon de Azambuja connects the caps, grids, plates through a black line which projects them into a universe of conscious forms: trapezoids, rectangles and squares more geometrical shapes. The title "Metaesquemas" inevitably links to the work of Hélio Oiticica and the "Movimento Neoconcreto Brasileiro" (Brazilian neoconcrete movement). It is a tribute not so devoid of sense of humor, is it? In his older series like for instance Potencial Escultorico the artist had already explored the relationship between everyday life and Art. He brings already present smouldering elements to the surface, proving that the artist still has "carte blanche" to observe what surrounds him in another way, a different look. The video Pangea Choco-emphasizes the irony showing the genesis of our planet with its continents making an inflection until their disappearance and disintegration ... in a glass of milk.

In association with:

Caitlin Masley The Entropy Plan (ver. 2)

30.04.2009 - 30.05.2009
Zaum Projects tem o prazer de apresentar a primeira exposição em Portugal de Caitlin Masley. Será exposta uma serie de desenhos em grande escala - untitled Silver Drawings - e tres nova peças escultóricas da serie "Habitats". Os desenhos sao baseados num projecto habitacional em Singapura concebido pelo arquitecto Moshe Safdie. Usando o edifício como imagem de base, os desenhos são projectados, reorganizados, manipulados e sobrepostos até ficarem irreconhecíveis. Os resultados finais sendo completamente orgânicos e imprevisíveis, transformam-se numa textura urbana emocional e política de paisagem e fronteiras em movimento. A imagem de base dá lugar a uma superfície reminiscente de desvanecentes e improváveis fachadas, ilusão de estrutura, textura animada e ordem disforme de que nós precisamos para compreender a situação visual. Isto leva-nos a imaginar o seu crescimento para outro lugar, novas fronteiras e memórias de antigas.

Em todo o trabalho de Caitlin Masley, a arquitectura é uma concepção modelo de mundos possíveis assentes numa estrutura orgânica que "cresce" para atender às necessidades da paisagem e dos seus habitantes. Ela é inspirada pelas teorias Metabolistas japonesas, pelos desenhos visionários do arquitecto e artista Lebbeus Woods, pelo "urbanismo dinâmico" do arquitecto Fortier, e pelas descrições das "Cidades Invisíveis" de Italo Calvino. O facto de Masley usar o ".... sublime prazer de recusar a rigidez dos planos de outra pessoa" leva-nos a repensar os locais que visitámos ou vimos anteriormente.

In association with:

Samuele Belloni Voyeur

27.03.2009 - 25.04.2009
Zaum Projects is pleased to announce "Voyer", an exhibition by Samuele Belloni. Like a voyeur the artist collects images, spy's on them, consumes them, digests them. In the artistic creation he remixes them together creating landscapes out of photographs, Japanese prints, American action film frames and low resolution images from the Internet with all their characters and actors. To complete the chaos he also inserts himself, people and objects from his personal life in the composition. The result is a canvas or a drawing which becomes a window on a crazy set full of happenings where the spectator continuously discovers new things and cant stop to watch. Before he noticed the observer of the artwork became a voyeur himself.

In association with:

Katrin Kormann Count For Nothing

20.02.2009 - 21.03.2009
Zaum Projects is pleased to announce "Count For Nothing" the first Portuguese show of Katrin Korfmann. The privileged media of the artist are the Video and Photo camera. The spectator of the exhibition will be able to recognize three different bodies of work.

In the earlier works Korfmann uses a grid as stylistic element for the composition in which she fits a sequence of video-stills previously taken. By digital reassembly, the sequence of an event is structured in linear terms, creating one new image with its own dynamics. The previously filmed scenes are always showing everyday life scenes in spaces involving transit and continuous movement like a football yard, a swimming pool, the Jewish monument in Berlin, an escalator, an elevator. The result are large works are presented in form of lightboxes, referring to film projection.

While initial works investigate events in the public sphere, the more recent photographs explore situations of time and space. The several still-images are no longer fitted in a structured composition but instead the artist creates a single photographic image through digital image processing. in this works she systematically alters the perspective, shifting the view from frontal to aerial vantage points. The effect is both, temporal and spatial. The represented figures all come together within the frame of the lens with consecutive exposure time and are all spliced together.

In association with:

Regine Schumann Leuchtstücke

16.01.2009 - 14.02.2009
Zaum Projects is pleased to present "Leuchtstücke", an exhibition of luminous works by Regine Schumann. In her first Portuguese exhibition the artist presents us 10 pieces from different bodies of her work. The materials used by Schumann are industrially produced like for instance fluorescent acrylic glass panels, synthetic plastilight twines, lumilux pigments which she transforms in glowing handwoven wall carpets, bright colour fields or monochrome wall sculptures. Under the influence of blacklight, daylight or absence of light the artworks react and change character, transforming and plunging the space every time into a new atmosphere. The spectator of the exhibition will experience different sensations and be challenged to redefine the colours, his feelings and impressions.

In association with:

Gabriel Colaço Stations

06.12.2008 - 10.01.2009
In this new body of works called "Stations", Gabriel Colaço exposes us to a re-evaluation of shape of the painted object and practical use of structures. Through slicing and moving the image sections and rearranging them with striking new colours, the common context and utility of the representation get lost to offer a new perception of the image.

In association with:

Michelle Forsyth Field Work

07.11.2008 - 12.04.2008
In Field Work, Forsyth presents us with work from three interrelated bodies of her work: The One Hundred Drawings Project, a series of gouache and watercolor paintings; the Ostinatos, a series of works made from cut-paper and Text Work, the most recent series of text-based pieces.

In association with:

Gilberto Colaço Remade

03.10.2008 - 01.11.2008
Incognito portraits in an absent environment.... All reactions erased , facial expressions cancelled; in mix of calm and chaos the marks of a life history are suppressed within these faces. Without pretending anymore, without revealing anything more it remains only a silent suggestion in a structure, a pose or attitude.

In association with:

Maya Schindler Seeing is Believing

05.09.2008 - 02.10.2008
The exhibition of Los Angeles based artist will consist of new sculptural installation work that employs ideas or perhaps idioms that challenge our traditional interpretations of understanding. She will also present new paintings that evoke naive interpretation of this show's experience. Schindler will use mostly familiar and iconic imagery, explicitly to engage and challenge the viewer into their private interpretation of the work. This is Schindler's first Solo exhibition in Portugal and at Zaum Projects.

In association with:

Taratiel In Between

01.08.2008 - 31.08.2008
Taratiel's work is based on estrutured compositions, more or less alive, from where she tries to scape from the figurative world to give total freedom to representativity. Taratiel's structures are the base for many and infinite transitory landscapes, something similar to undiscovered worlds, forgoten lost dimensions. Taratiel work is now in an evoluting stage, in a confrontation between static and organic, a way out to the rigid forms. It is in this confrontation where "In Between" is born, like a battle of shapes in the quest of its roots.

In association with:

Catarina Lira Pereira Lese Code

27.06.2008 - 26.07.2008
As an artist, Catarina Lira Pereira explores cartoon images, and then renovates them. With lines and patterns, she covers up the image thus imbuing the remainder with a certain degree of inconsequence. Inspired by each image that she encounters, Lira Pereira proceeds to invade and occupy it as if she were claiming her own space within it. During this process, she gives preference and prominence to the aspects that she wants to integrate into the final revelation of her perspective. The interaction of memory and oblivion in her paintings give shape to a game of revelation and concealment in which a monochromatic field veils a battalion of colors or vice versa. Every element of her works takes part in this interaction. In Lira Pereira's oeuvre, everything is relative because everything is conditioned, contradicted, accentuated and supported.

In association with:

Group Show Start

16.05.2008 - 21.06.2008
The opening group show "Start" presents the works of the artists of the gallery. The 400m2 of new exhibiting space will host artworks by Ana Rito, Caitlin Masley, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Catarina Lira Pereira, Erik Geschke, Frank Plant, Gabriel Colaço, Gilberto Colaço, Isabel Baraona, Jeff Eisenberg, Jeremy Mora, Katrin Korfmann, Maya Schindler, Michelle Forsyth, Samuele Belloni and UIU.

In association with: