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The Artist Bending Modernism Towards Mysticism
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The Artist Bending Modernism Towards Mysticism

Last updated: February 16, 2025 10:56 pm
Editorial Board Published February 16, 2025
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LEIPZIG, Germany — My first impression of Marina Perez Simão’s current oil work — 17 of that are proven at G2 in Leipzig, within the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany — was how remarkably grounded they felt. For all their evident moltenness, with their billowy shapes suggesting undulating landscapes, these compositions additionally conveyed a powerful, even voluptuous sense of mass. In her works, all painted in 2024, the artist systematizes nature’s motifs and distills them into interlocking volumes and shade bands, making them as cerebral as they’re sensuous. 

Perez Simōez has talked about in interviews that she is impressed by the Baroque actions in her native Brazil and Europe. This provides some trace as to the volumetric heft she deploys to dramatic results. Dawn and sundown, as an illustration, are the primary occasions of the primary two untitled work. Within the former, a golden glow lays flat like a pancake on bands of thick lavender, blue, and grey, which might depict both soil or water. Right here, gentle is a self-contained stable relatively than an impact; its luminosity hardly alters the adjoining colours or kinds. The solar is extra literal within the second portray, and but even right here the panorama opens like a petal, suggesting that this spectacle is a quasi-mystical portal to reverie relatively than a matter-of-fact depiction of nature.

Perez Simão’s work, nevertheless, are hardly ornate. When taking a look at them, I assumed much less of the lavish gold adorning Brazil’s Baroque church buildings than the light materials that typically gown these church buildings’ humbler saintly statues. I considered fiber muddled by age, gold tainted with patina, and plush hills subdued by a dry season’s unyielding dust. All these parts, some geographical or artwork historic, others emotive, inform Perez Simão’s works, which provide not a lot a critique of Modernism as a lot as a somber reevaluation carried forth by her bend in the direction of the meditative and mystical. 

Marina Perez Simão, “Untitled” (2024), oil on canvas

The work’ fluid transitions between figuration and abstraction additionally recall to mind Brazilian Modernist painter Tarsila do Amaral. Although that artist sometimes captured landscapes, reminiscent of palm bushes and livestock, with extra direct specificity, extra mysterious works, reminiscent of “The Moon” and “Distance” (each 1928) share an affinity with these of Perez Simão. Each artists appear to hunt a language that speaks as a lot to nature’s sublimity because it does to at least one’s frame of mind when confronted with its grandeur. 

Like do Amaral at her most symbolic, Perez Simaõ conveys existential surprise and loneliness. Actually, she might take that latter high quality a step additional — in contrast to do Amaral, who inserted a human determine or labored with scales that instructed a correspondence of a gazer’s physique to pure formations in her works, Perez Simão dissolves all such boundaries and sense of proportion, leaving viewers solely immersed in nature and the thoughts’s theater. This entire immersion left me feeling that she may be most intently aligned with modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Artwork historian Barbara Novak as soon as wrote that when “you gaze at the hollowed centers of [her] opened petals … you feel as if you could fall inside.” Perez Simão’s works equally invite one to take a plunge. 

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Marina Perez Simão, “Untitled” (2024), oil on canvasPerez Simao Untitled 2024.2

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Set up view of Marina Perez Simão, Zwielicht

Marina Perez Simão: Zwielicht continues at G2 Kunsthalle (Dittrichring 13, Leipzig, Germany) by way of March 2. The exhibition was organized by the establishment. 

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