Elizabeth Jobim | Sequências
Elizabeth Jobim | Sequências
Elizabeth Jobim
From Apr 01 to May 10 2006
Elizabeth Jobim, who recently joined the gallery, presents Sequências, her first solo exhibition at LURIXS, where the artist displays works of the same period as the ones presented at the 5th Mercosul Biennale in Porto Alegre.
The exhibition is co-current to the one at the Paço Imperial, which displays an adapted version of the celebrated painting/installation Aberturas. Paulo Sérgio Duarte, curator of the Biennale, says: "This painting embraces us in this environment that welcomes us. We are gathered by the space designed by the artist, as the skin holds our muscles, our flesh, but it?s painting. This skin has nothing to do with organic appeals, just wants to be a painting, pasted on the wall, and surrounds us."
Although we cannot consider an installation what is seen at this exhibition, the assembly was designed especially for the gallery and tries to reveal the relationship between the work itself and the space. About the exhibition, Jobim says: "In these canvases, I start defining the formats. I think about the division into parts so that the continuity of the whole can be combined with the relative autonomy of each share, which all together make a set."
After years of devoting herself to painting on paper, Jobim has been developing, since 2004, a vigorous work in oil on canvas, and in which, still from the observation of small stones, a foam roller is used, getting subtle variations of colour vibration according to intensity of each layer applied. The stones now are not clearly present, but are instead a distant reference, as Paulo Sérgio Duarte considers a contemporary version of still life.
Another noteworthy point is the fact that Elizabeth Jobim is the first woman to be represented by LURIXS.
According to Ricardo Rego, "the arrival of an artist with a trajectory like that of Elizabeth Jobim is a great joy for us. Her experience with painting on canvas enabled her inclusion in contexts previously restricted to her previous works, i.e., paper. Her installation at the last Mercosul Biennale was overwhelming."