Sonia Almeida
08 Dec 2005 - 04 Feb 2006
SONIA ALMEIDA
"Is this my painting?"
Private view: Wednesday 7th December 2005, h 19-22pm
Venue: T293, Piazza Amendola 4, 80121, Naples
Period: December 8, 2005 through February 4, 2006
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 4-8pm, Monday by appointment
Closed December 22, 2005 through January 4, 2006
info: +39 081 295882, Fax+39 081 2142210
www.t293.it info@t293.it
Office: Via Tribunali 293, 80138, Naples
"Is this my painting? Is this who I am? Who could I be? And if most times I recognize what I see, some others I struggle to make sense of what’s in front of my eyes." Sonia Almeida 2005
For Sonia Almeida painting is a process which explores the margins of painting’s iconicity, and its intrinsic properties in order to represent the image, through the choosing and selection of these constituent parts. Sonia Almeida draws from a linguistic ‘watering hole’ made up of minimal and abstract signs whilst letting herself be seduced in the application of chromatic and tangible traces that indicate the presence of a strong mnemonic component. Her approach resides in breaking down abstract and neo-modernistic grammar and using it as a visual structure that regulates the relationship between memory and perception. It is evidently one of her primary interests to reason on colour, on light and on signs, like ‘heteronymous’ elements that can revoke the shape of a sensorial experience unearthed from some corner of ones life. A quest which not only reflects on the historicized nature of certain paintings, but also on the problematic more closely connected with the constant and inherent uncertainty like a generator of emotions. Sonia Almeida’s paintings, arranged according to the nature and atmosphere of the space, are the attempt, through fragments and pictorial elements, to reconcile reflections and the pictorial act. The “pictorial representation” thus becomes the set for all of the above, of a process which hopes to lead the unstable to the stable through a tension that gathers in uncertain forms and unforeseen compositions.
© Sonia Almeida
Untitled vessels 2
2005
oil on canvas
100 x 128 cm
"Is this my painting?"
Private view: Wednesday 7th December 2005, h 19-22pm
Venue: T293, Piazza Amendola 4, 80121, Naples
Period: December 8, 2005 through February 4, 2006
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 4-8pm, Monday by appointment
Closed December 22, 2005 through January 4, 2006
info: +39 081 295882, Fax+39 081 2142210
www.t293.it info@t293.it
Office: Via Tribunali 293, 80138, Naples
"Is this my painting? Is this who I am? Who could I be? And if most times I recognize what I see, some others I struggle to make sense of what’s in front of my eyes." Sonia Almeida 2005
For Sonia Almeida painting is a process which explores the margins of painting’s iconicity, and its intrinsic properties in order to represent the image, through the choosing and selection of these constituent parts. Sonia Almeida draws from a linguistic ‘watering hole’ made up of minimal and abstract signs whilst letting herself be seduced in the application of chromatic and tangible traces that indicate the presence of a strong mnemonic component. Her approach resides in breaking down abstract and neo-modernistic grammar and using it as a visual structure that regulates the relationship between memory and perception. It is evidently one of her primary interests to reason on colour, on light and on signs, like ‘heteronymous’ elements that can revoke the shape of a sensorial experience unearthed from some corner of ones life. A quest which not only reflects on the historicized nature of certain paintings, but also on the problematic more closely connected with the constant and inherent uncertainty like a generator of emotions. Sonia Almeida’s paintings, arranged according to the nature and atmosphere of the space, are the attempt, through fragments and pictorial elements, to reconcile reflections and the pictorial act. The “pictorial representation” thus becomes the set for all of the above, of a process which hopes to lead the unstable to the stable through a tension that gathers in uncertain forms and unforeseen compositions.
© Sonia Almeida
Untitled vessels 2
2005
oil on canvas
100 x 128 cm