Ester Partegàs
27 Mar - 10 May 2008
© Ester Partegàs
Daily Collapse (Panic), 2008
Acrylic, spray paint, collage and inkjet on print paper
127.6 x 113.7
Daily Collapse (Panic), 2008
Acrylic, spray paint, collage and inkjet on print paper
127.6 x 113.7
ESTER PARTEGÀS
"Daily Collapse"
27th March – 10th May 2008
Opening hours: Thursday 27th March 2008, 8 pm.
Ester Partegàs is exhibiting her recent work at Galería Helga de Alvear, returning to the underlying themes of her artistic investigation; the consumer society and its waste as a political and ironic metaphor. On this occasion she emphasises the aspect of failure.
In her own words: “it’s not so much about rubbish, commerce, dependence rather than the impossibility of plenitude, of a clean project as society”
In “Daily Collapse” Partegàs addresses tensions, binds, slavery, dependence, relationships, collapse, overloading, fragmentation, rupture, ties and disconnections. Initially conceived as a series of independent works, when grouped together the meanings and relations are multiplied. The works bearing these meanings are themselves, in turn, created by combining, uniting and interrelating fragments or pieces culled from various sources.
“Daily Collapse” is a series of varying sized collages in which words taken from magazines and ads are like links in a chain binding them together. The chain made its appearance as an expressive symbol in Partegás’ work with the “Barbarians” series she presented at the 2nd Moscow Biennial, touching on slavery and dependence, yet also serving in this case as a connection between these terms, chaining and connecting them.
The major work featured in the exhibition titled “Mandala”, the chains are substituted by lines of colour connecting the words cut out from ads and magazines. The title ties it in directly to the Tibetan mandalas with which monks make an overall representation of their lives. In a similar way, the artist cuts out words from texts charged with a certain economic and emotional load to underpinning how these two aspects are intimately related.
Together with the collages, Partegás is also exhibiting a series of sculptures titled “Yes collection”, almost as though it were an exclusive collection or line of jewelry. These oversized pieces of jewelry force us to revaluate them, to view them as objects of doubtful utility and even less meaning. Objects of desire that, in short, are good for nothing.
Ester Partegás (1972, La Garriga, Barcelona) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has shown in group shows at the Whitney Museum in New York (2001), at Aldrich Museum in New York (2002), at the Pontevedra Biennial (2002), and the 2nd Moscow Biennial (2007) and has had one-person exhibitions at Centre d’Art Santa Mónica in Barcelona (2003) and the Aldrich Museum in New York (2008).
Partegás has recently exhibited at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid as part of its ongoing exhibition programme “Producciones”.
"Daily Collapse"
27th March – 10th May 2008
Opening hours: Thursday 27th March 2008, 8 pm.
Ester Partegàs is exhibiting her recent work at Galería Helga de Alvear, returning to the underlying themes of her artistic investigation; the consumer society and its waste as a political and ironic metaphor. On this occasion she emphasises the aspect of failure.
In her own words: “it’s not so much about rubbish, commerce, dependence rather than the impossibility of plenitude, of a clean project as society”
In “Daily Collapse” Partegàs addresses tensions, binds, slavery, dependence, relationships, collapse, overloading, fragmentation, rupture, ties and disconnections. Initially conceived as a series of independent works, when grouped together the meanings and relations are multiplied. The works bearing these meanings are themselves, in turn, created by combining, uniting and interrelating fragments or pieces culled from various sources.
“Daily Collapse” is a series of varying sized collages in which words taken from magazines and ads are like links in a chain binding them together. The chain made its appearance as an expressive symbol in Partegás’ work with the “Barbarians” series she presented at the 2nd Moscow Biennial, touching on slavery and dependence, yet also serving in this case as a connection between these terms, chaining and connecting them.
The major work featured in the exhibition titled “Mandala”, the chains are substituted by lines of colour connecting the words cut out from ads and magazines. The title ties it in directly to the Tibetan mandalas with which monks make an overall representation of their lives. In a similar way, the artist cuts out words from texts charged with a certain economic and emotional load to underpinning how these two aspects are intimately related.
Together with the collages, Partegás is also exhibiting a series of sculptures titled “Yes collection”, almost as though it were an exclusive collection or line of jewelry. These oversized pieces of jewelry force us to revaluate them, to view them as objects of doubtful utility and even less meaning. Objects of desire that, in short, are good for nothing.
Ester Partegás (1972, La Garriga, Barcelona) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has shown in group shows at the Whitney Museum in New York (2001), at Aldrich Museum in New York (2002), at the Pontevedra Biennial (2002), and the 2nd Moscow Biennial (2007) and has had one-person exhibitions at Centre d’Art Santa Mónica in Barcelona (2003) and the Aldrich Museum in New York (2008).
Partegás has recently exhibited at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid as part of its ongoing exhibition programme “Producciones”.