Forms in Black and White / Drawings by Iran do Espirito Santo / Sean Kelly Gallery / The Armory Show 2010 / 20100305.7D.03926.P1.C23.BW / SML
Iran do Espírito Santo
Top right:
+ Twist 2A, 2009, pencil on photogram
+ CRTN CVII, 2007, permanent marker on paper
Top left (reflected from mirror):
+ Twist 5B, 2009, pencil on photogram
+ CRTN CXVIII, 2007, permanent marker on paper
Sean Kelly Gallery, 528 West 29th Street, New York, NY
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Iran do Espírito Santo was born in Mococa, Brazil in 1963. In 1986 he received a B.A. at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paolo.
One of Brazil's most interesting contemporary artists, Iran is best known for his sensuously minimalist work that deals with issues of place, structure, material, design, and surface with a rigorous conceptual sensibility. His work undertakes a subtle subversion of Minimalism through abstracted everyday items. Iran is concerned with the tactile attributes of his chosen materials and with the sensuous contours of simple abstract forms in space. Working in stainless steel, glass, copper, stone or paint on plaster, he employs subtle illusionistic devices, instigating a play of depth that remains consistent from piece to piece.
In 2002, Sean Kelly Gallery presented the first North American gallery exhibition of his work, which was comprised of wall installations and sculptural works. Since then he has continued to reflect on daily objects and the transformation of industrial design items into iconic minimalist sculptures.
Iran has received international acclaim in the past two decades. His works have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries worldwide; and have been included in the collections of many prominent international museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. His works have been included in the Venice Biennale, the Bienal de São Paulo, and the Istanbul Biennal. Recent exhibitions have included The Portrait as an Image of the World, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo and Present Tense at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Iran do Espírito Santo lives and works in São Paulo.
www.skny.com/artists/iran-do-espirito-santo/bio/
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The Armory Show is the United States’ leading art fair devoted to the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its twelve years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week.
The Armory Show 2010 also features The Armory Show – Modern, specializing in modern and secondary market material on Pier 92. Pier 94 continues to be a venue to premiere new works by living artists. With one ticket, visitors to The Armory Show on March 4–7, 2010 have access to the latest developments in the art world, and to the masterpieces which heralded them.
Piers 92 and 94 on 55th Street and 12th Avenue, NYC
March 4-7, 2010
Forms in Black and White / Drawings by Iran do Espirito Santo / Sean Kelly Gallery / The Armory Show 2010 / 20100305.7D.03926.P1.C23.BW / SML
Iran do Espírito Santo
Top right:
+ Twist 2A, 2009, pencil on photogram
+ CRTN CVII, 2007, permanent marker on paper
Top left (reflected from mirror):
+ Twist 5B, 2009, pencil on photogram
+ CRTN CXVIII, 2007, permanent marker on paper
Sean Kelly Gallery, 528 West 29th Street, New York, NY
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Iran do Espírito Santo was born in Mococa, Brazil in 1963. In 1986 he received a B.A. at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paolo.
One of Brazil's most interesting contemporary artists, Iran is best known for his sensuously minimalist work that deals with issues of place, structure, material, design, and surface with a rigorous conceptual sensibility. His work undertakes a subtle subversion of Minimalism through abstracted everyday items. Iran is concerned with the tactile attributes of his chosen materials and with the sensuous contours of simple abstract forms in space. Working in stainless steel, glass, copper, stone or paint on plaster, he employs subtle illusionistic devices, instigating a play of depth that remains consistent from piece to piece.
In 2002, Sean Kelly Gallery presented the first North American gallery exhibition of his work, which was comprised of wall installations and sculptural works. Since then he has continued to reflect on daily objects and the transformation of industrial design items into iconic minimalist sculptures.
Iran has received international acclaim in the past two decades. His works have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries worldwide; and have been included in the collections of many prominent international museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. His works have been included in the Venice Biennale, the Bienal de São Paulo, and the Istanbul Biennal. Recent exhibitions have included The Portrait as an Image of the World, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo and Present Tense at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Iran do Espírito Santo lives and works in São Paulo.
www.skny.com/artists/iran-do-espirito-santo/bio/
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The Armory Show is the United States’ leading art fair devoted to the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its twelve years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week.
The Armory Show 2010 also features The Armory Show – Modern, specializing in modern and secondary market material on Pier 92. Pier 94 continues to be a venue to premiere new works by living artists. With one ticket, visitors to The Armory Show on March 4–7, 2010 have access to the latest developments in the art world, and to the masterpieces which heralded them.
Piers 92 and 94 on 55th Street and 12th Avenue, NYC
March 4-7, 2010