Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain is pleased to present ‘Winter's whisper’, a group exhibition of works by seven artists represented by the gallery. In the cold, silent atmosphere that characterises the winter season, the works brought together seem to whisper subtle messages. Each, with its unique visual language, embodies a story conveyed beyond words, ‘whispers’ that resonate and warmly fill the space with memories, emotions and reflections.
Thomas Broomé's works, which have become increasingly complex and multidimensional, depict interiors using a visual language of his own: the letters, signs and words repeated on the surface of his images structure the subjects and objects of the composition. In a dreamlike world, the arrangement of the forms and the different layers of the painting create a sense of depth and plunge the viewer into a true reading of his work.
Recalling the tradition of Venetian tonal painting and the velature technique, Alberto Cont successively applies colored and transparent layers suggesting a depth of space, while producing sensations of movement and effects of impalpable matter. Color becomes the element that constructs volume and space. The viewer is thus absorbed in abstract and atmospheric landscapes irradiated by real dynamic and luminous vibrations.
Lake Verea (Francisca Rivero-Lake Cortina, & Carla Verea Hernández) experiment with photographic techniques and formats in series, building narratives together that are the fruit of a fusion of their two identities, subjectivities and sensibilities. Following on from their first monochrome work with the Mammoth Camera (a nineteenth-century camera that the artists have restored), in the ‘ON’ series, Lake Verea explores color and light in a unique photographic process, highlighting these candles as symbols of a reflection on time and alchemy.
The scenes captured by Niccolò Montesi allow us to appreciate a new facet of architectural beauty, almost pictorial. By changing perspectives and viewing angles, Montesi offers us another way of looking at our surroundings. The artist enriches his visual method with the use of gold leaf, evoking a variety of historical and artistic references, from Byzantine icons to the works of Klimt. These gold backgrounds further disrupt our visual reference points, perspective and depth.
Caio Reisewitz's work is inspired by the writings of indigenous thinkers such as Davi Kopenawa(1956-) and Ailton Krenak (1953-), who advocate a more balanced relationship between Man and Earth. His works denounce the urgent problems facing Brazil, such as the destruction of the Amazon and the exploitation of aboriginal populations. Like the Brazilian modern movement, in particular the work of Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) and Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994), Reisewitz's collages integrate urban elements with a lush jungle, producing chimerical images of a more harmonious ideal between nature and human artefacts.
Julio Rondo composes his paintings by superimposing translucent blocks of color from surface to background. Rondo is particularly inspired by the music he listens to in his studio, the rhythms, sounds and words. These meticulously executed traces of vivid paint are reflections of emotions and memories from the past that the artist captures and preserves. They are also echoes of the viewer's own personal experiences, who, immersed in these sensations, is connected to his or her own perception of the world.
Miguel Rothschild is constantly developing new artistic approaches and chooses to intervene directly on his prints, or sometimes on their frames. In this way, Rothschild proposes an innovative form of photography in which a third dimension emerges to better underline the sculptural aspect of the subject he represents. Rothschild also reinterprets in a lighter way the themes of religion and spirituality that are recurrent in his work, embodied by the symbolic printing of San Sebastian on plasters.
