EXHIBITION

ARBOLABOR

CAB de Burgos, Castilla y Leon, Burgos, 06/05/2015 - 09/20/2015

Calle Saldaña, Burgos

ABOUT

The work of the Brazilian Marcos Chaves (Rio de Janeiro, 1961) focuses primarily on a contextualization of banal everyday objects, which manipulated so that pass get a new meaning. Through his sculptures, installations, videos and photographs, Chaves reveals values ​​embedded in ordinary things, hidden in the conventions, and transforms everyday situations extracting improbable scenes of banal moments.

Objects in fixing his attention always come from a near horizon, immersed in unsuspected alliances in the world, and takes the everyday as counterpoint to avoid starchy speeches about life and art. The artist, who uses humor as a catalyst for his work appropriates different visual records (advertising, kitsch, contemporary art) to criticize the blindness of topical contemporary look to the ordinary caused by cultural conventions.

Chaves explores the redefinition of the routine, in the areas of custom and social normality, playing with images, and with the meaning of words, to disrupt the viewing position of the viewer and force him to create our own narratives.

Brazilian developer is not interested in the formal product, "artistic" object, mere aesthetics. The construction of the artwork can be, for him, removing a common object of its system environment, combined with others, change their logical context, adding words and other means beyond their visual field, playing with mental associations, in humor and randomness.

But those ties ironic, sometimes parodic tone, artist, playful vocation of his work, does not hide a deeply critical work, which remains open to interpretation, despite its coherence. "I think the artist makes policy when you show people that things can be seen in a different way," explains the creator.

It is not the first collaboration with the CAB Marcos Chaves, since it recently participated in the project entitled Agenda Santiago in 2013. The Brazilian has exhibited largely in his native country as well as internationally in exhibitions such as Manifesta 7 in the city Italian Bolzano (2008) and the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).

 

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