This is Venezuelan artist Eduardo Bárcenas’ first solo show in New York City. The selection includes paintings and works on paper as well as mixed media box constructions dating from 2002 to present. Bárcenas exposes issues of identity and existence through masks and visages, including self-portrait: “the faces fill you with a sense of overwhelming sadness, even despair, at the thought of such physical pain and suffering”, wrote Benjamin Genocchio in the New York Times in 2006. These emotions and circumstances are veiled and silenced visually and figuratively by the artist’s use of white paint to erase and fragment the forms, or wraps or shrouds that muffle the faces. Bárcenas has exhibited extensively in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the United States. He has been invited twice to exhibit at the Havana Biennial and has won a number of prizes and recognitions for his work, most recently the significant “Alexis Perez Mujica” award in Venezuela.
EDUARDO BARCENAS
Acts of Silence
SOLAR at Elga Wimmer PCC, Chelsea, 2009
installation view
Untitled [self-portrait], 2008
installation of Mascaras para un concilio [Masks for a Council], 2002, mixed media on nylon scrim
installation view
El silencio y...
[Silence and...], 2005, 47 x 47”
Untitled, 2003, 31 x 23.5”
Untitled [self-portrait], 2008, 53 x 51”
installation view
installation view
Untitled, 2003
mixed media box, dimensions variable
Untitled,
2003-2005, 31 x 31”
Untitled,
2003, 47 x 39 inches
installation view
from the Silencio series,
2005, mixed media on paper,
39.25 x 27.5”
El silencio (la tormenta)
[Silence (the Storm], 2006, 60 x 62”
Untitled,
2007-08, 23.75 x 23.75”
Untitled,
2007-08, 23.75 x 23.75”
15 January 2009
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15 January 2009
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15 January 2009
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15 January 2009
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15 January 2009
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15 January 2009
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15 January 2009
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Aurelio Torres, Rotors series,
2008, 25 X 59.5”
Aurelio Torres, Rotors series,
2008, 20 x 22”
Aurelio Torres, Rotors series,
2008, 20 x 22”
Back Gallery
Aurelio Torres
Rotors
