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Felipe Barbosa & Edgar OrlainetaPresented by Sara Meltzer Gallery January 6, 2007- February 3, 2007Reception: January 6, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmFelipe Barbosa, Edgar OrlainetaSara Meltzer Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring the works of Brazilian artist Felipe Barbosa and Mexican artist Edgar Orlianeta. This will be the artists' first exhibition at the gallery and is also the first time their work is seen together. The sculpture of Felipe Barbosa is comprised from everyday materials that are re-constituted in order to accentuate their formal qualities and to address issues of the global-cultural market, design and national identity. Barbosa’s repetitive compositions are created manually, yet are indicative of the mass-production process used to manufacture these materials. Soccer balls, ties, pencils and books are just a few examples of the objects he employs. Barbosa’s practice removes these objects from their expected situations and re-contextualizes them to create totally distinct objects. Felipe Barbosa lives and works in Rio de Jainero. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Casa Triangulo, São Paulo; Galeria Arte em Dobro, Rio de Janiero; Galeria Laura Marsiai, Rio de Janiero; Programa de Exposiccões do Centro São Paulo and Espaço Cultural Maria Martins, Rio de Janiero. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions at Foundazione Pitti, Florence, Italy; Brooklyn Institute of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY; Centro Cultural España, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Galeria Luis Adelantado, Miami, FL and Valencia, Spain; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid and many others. His work is included in various public and private collections including Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janiero, Fudação Cisnerios, and Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi, Rio de Janiero. Focusing on the minutiae of everyday urban life, Edgar Orlaineta employs found objects and ideas and transforms them into extraordinary sculptural forms. Inspired by modernist design, architecture, historical and cultural symbolism, Orlaineta combines parts, each with their intended purpose in mind, into hybrid forms where modernist ideals and cultural perspective collide. Orlaineta's poetic investigation into modernist ideals praises both subject and form in modern art and design as well as the contradictory ideologies that are forced upon the work due a certain legacy within a larger historical and cultural context. Ultimately, Orlaineta directs our attention to the transformative powers of the everyday and its relentless aspiration for a utopian way of life. Edgar Orlaineta lives and works in Mexico City. He has exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at Jet Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Cuchifritos Art Gallery/Project Space, New York, NY and in Mexico City at Museo Univercitario de Ciencias y Arte, UNAM, Galeria de Arte Mexicano and Museo Nacional de las Culturas Populares, among others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, NJ; Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo de San Jose, San Jose, Costa Rica; Cuisine Digitale, Vienna, Austria; Instituto de Mexico, Paris, France; The Santiago Biennial, Santiago Chile; G.A.M; Museo de la Casa del Lago, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno and Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City, Mexico, and in New York at Sculpture Center; Momenta Art Gallery; Spike Gallery, Bronx River Art Center and Smack Mellon Studios.
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