Patricia Golombek: Àtimo, Àtomo

Espace Meyer Zafra is pleased to present the second solo show of Brazilian artist Patricia Golombek. This new exhibition entitled Átimo, Átomo, will gather new paintings.

 

In this exhibition, Patricia Golombek explores her journey through recovery from an intense health treatment, at the same time as the world deals with the devastating spread of the global COVID pandemic. Golombek narrates this time period via a painted diary that recounts instances that happen both to her and the world at large. Questions surrounding survival and a cure, time, and human existence.

 

“Átimo” is a Portuguese word for a small fragment of time, and “átomo”, or atoms, are represented in these series as circles, which symbolize differently sized and coloured spheres, not unlike our own cells. The circle is a universally understood symbol. It is through their use that the artist questions our existence on Earth, as well as zooms out to consider the planet itself and how it moves by rotation and translation in its relation to the universe.

 

Patricia Golombek is born in São Paulo, Brazil. She attended “Instituto de Educação Caetano de Campos” and “Faculdade de Belas Artes de São Paulo,” where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, in 1986. While at university, she studied under Flávio Império, Renina Katz, and Marcelo Nitsche – architecture professors who paid particular attention to the visual arts. The architecture degree also promoted discussions in the fields of Philosophy, Anthropology and Sociology, which would later frame the concepts behind the artist’s body of work. Throughout her years at “Belas Artes,” Patricia gained work experience with graphic design, screen-printing, and photography.

 

After earning her degree, Patrícia Golombek frequented painter and art critic Ernestina Karman’s studio. She was under her tutelage from 1987 to 1990. It was only after seven years studying that Patricia did her first individual exhibition, in 1994. She considers this the beginning of her career. In 2004, she published her book about her ten years of work.

 

Throughout the years, Golombek participated in countless art exhibits, not only individual, but also in a group, and both in Brazil and abroad. Some of these include the ARCO Madrid, Art Marché Contemporain, Art NY, Art Miami, Art Paris. Her work has been praised and awarded at mam-the “Museu de Arte Moderna”, and MAC the “Museu de Arte Contemporânea”, both in São Paulo.