Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain is pleased to present Northbound / Southbound, a group exhibition in two parts :January 9 to 30, 2016 and the second from February 3 to 27, 2016. This exhibition reflects the gallery’s primary voca-tion as a place for exchange between artists from both hemispheres, north and south. From Brazil to Sweden, viaFrance, each artist presented has a singular artistic approach, influenced by his or her roots, upbringing and culture.However, a common denominator is the globalized economy that they all experience - and often denounce - which isfortunately counterbalanced by an extraordinary cultural dynamism that dares all.
Thomas Broomé (1971 - Sweden) : With extreme precision, Thomas Broomé applies his mastery of perspective todraw or paint interior spaces constructed with words. Words are used to designate, but also to delimit space, surfaceand the very materiality of the object. Their repetition composes forms which in turn create the image, a close super-position between sign and represented object. These multiplied words, individual and indistinct, both substance andform, have contradictory functions, inviting contemplation and the exploration of new perspectives.
Morgane Denzler (1986 - France) : The works of Morgane Denzler invite us to forget the single point of view ofcartography and photographs of Alpine landscapes in favor of a deconcentration of the gaze. «It’s all about lettingthe landscape pass through us, revealing and hiding, folding and linking. Morgane Denzler deconstructs a distortedrelationship with nature, hijacking the tools of normalization to create a poetic experience (visual and sensory) of thelandscape. It’s a question of being absorbed by the landscape, whose whose correlations are permanent and infinite.(excerpt from a text by Julie Crenn).
Maria Friberg (1966 - Sweden) : Maria Frieberg’s photographic work revolves around two recurring themes recurringthemes: the difficulties of communication and man’s exploitation of the planet. «Piles of Dreams», 2015 can be inter-preted as a critique of overabundance, and shows chaotic beauty of the traces we leave behind.
Pablo Lobato (1976 - Brazil) : Pablo Lobato has worked on the sense of touch through images. In the still lifes of the«Muda» series, this is specifically evoked by the gesture of piercing the fruit to reach the seeds. the seeds. Thesephotographs illustrate a traumatic event, far from an ideal representation of the subject. The desiccated seeds andpits are trapped in the frame as dead witnesses to the depicted subject, but they are also the hope of a future.hope of new germination.
Pedro Motta (1977 - Brazil) : Pedro Motta’s works question the relationship between nature and human intervention.The disproportionate power of nature is seen as a factor of singularization of the landscape contained in a geogra-phical space - a place of integration and interaction where the imaginary and all its representations come together.These works are a space for experimentation and reflection on new landscapes, created through manual and digitalmanipulation.
Matthias Reinmuth (1974 - Germany): Matthias Reinmuth’s abstract canvases, dreamlike and lyrical, are composedof successive layers of washed-out, iridescent oil paint. The painting of this former Baselitz pupil is in the tradition ofabstract expressionism and informal art of the 50s and 60s, which placed the emotional expressiveness of color andthe spontaneity of the act of painting at the center of artistic confrontation.
Miguel Rothschild (1963 - Argentina): Miguel Rothschild’s works offer a re-reading that invites us to delve deeperinto a subject, a place we think we already know. Miguel devotes himself to metaphorical works, perforating or bur-ning photographs to reveal new spaces, integrating pins and nails, translucent straws or cut-out images, working theglass of frames to create poetic, three-dimensional works.
