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Espace Meyer Zafra is pleased to present “The 100th Show”, the 100th show at the gallery bringing together the works of Marina Apollonio (Italy, 1940 - ), Ennio L. Chiggio (italy, 1938 - 2020), Alexis Hayère (france, 1988 - ), Piotr Kowalski (poland, 1927 - 2004), Manuel Mérida (venezuela, 1939 - ), Rene Ugarte (venezuela, 1951 - ) and Grazia Varisco (italy, 1937 - ).
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Honored for its aestheticism and for its captivating effect on the viewer, and despite the marginalization of his work that we often like to associate with kinetics, the work of Manuel Mérida remains of no less importance in the history of art. - Hervé Mikaeloff
The artwork Circulo Oro, was exhibited at the Fondation Villa Datris last year in a special installation made especially for the show Mouvement et Lumière #2
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Photo: Romain Darnaud
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Alexis Hayère is neither completely a painter nor absolutely a sculptor, but both at the same time. We could also say that the distinction between pictoriality and sculpturality, which plays a central role. in his practice, is what allows us to underline a broader creative logic, which has as its object real space and the thousand ways of investing it, of working in it, of conquering it. - Julien Verhaeghe
In 2015, the artwork Sculpture Portée n°6 at the Fondation Villa Datris and in Bourse Révélations Emerige, one of the most important award in France.
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Sensitive and sober, the work of Rene Ugarte (1951 - ) is the fruit of a coherent reflection and a rigorous discipline. Based on the concept of structure, his paintings, executed on canvas and wood, reveal a simple configuration: the use of pure forms (square and rectangle) and the line in an alternative and repetitive way. Ugarte is developing a network of lines that cross the board horizontally, vertically and diagonally. The diagonal that he uses in a systematic way allows him to accentuate the dynamism of the work. Through this network of lines, orthogonal shapes determined by solid colors appear. Nevertheless, this rigorous geometrical structure which gives the painting an impression of balance and visual unity, is none the less illusory. It is the imbalance, the asymmetry, the destructuring that the artist seeks in his work. So he plays with ambiguity and dynamics to acquire a greater presence in space and come to a new reading, a discontinuous reading of his work.
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Marina Apollonio’s artistic investigation focuses on creating perceptual stimuli through a combination of pure forms. Her practice has always overlapped with the rational approach, scientific objectives, and systematic style of Programmed, Concrete, Kinetic, and Optical Art.. - Stefano Mudu, text for the 59th Biennale di Venezia
On October 2024, Marina Apollonio will have her retrospective at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
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Piotr Kowalski’s position is unique, combining Arts and Science, and keeping with the times alike those of Leonardo Da Vinci and Dürer in their eras. His art has often been compared to the movement of lumino-kinetics with which he shares certain conceptions: it is in reality closer to that of Takis or Jean Dupuy, technological and experimental, very defined and non-formal, located between materiality and the virtual and always looking for the novelty. - Serge Lemoine
In 2017, The artwork Perspective was exhibited at the Documenta 14 in Kassel.
The 100th Show: Apollonio, Chiggio, Hayère, Kowalski, Mérida, Ugarte, Varisco
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