Reflecting Damien Hirst Painting

Reflecting the Collection Inspired by: Tate’s Work Artist: Paulo Almeida The Tate collection tells the story of British art of the last five hundred years. Among its 60,000 works, the remarkable collection of works by seminal artists of the 20th and 21st centuries stands out, reason why the Tate Modern - Tate group museum dedicated to modern and contemporary periods - became a major reference on the cultural map of London. On its tenth anniversary, the Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota told the Folha de S. Paulo that the institution was crucial to rebuilding/revalue the visual arts scene in British culture. Parallel to the consolidation of the Young British Artists (YBAs) generation, the museum helped to regain the interest of young people/youngsters. Nowadays, the Tate Modern collection attracts/draws in about 5 million visitors a year, higher public, for example, than the Centre Pompidou’s, Paris’, or the MoMA’s in New York. It's in the exciting collection of Tate that Paul Almeida based its design Reflecting the Collection. Playing with the ambiguity of the word "reflection", the young paulista artist mirrors - while rethinking - some of the fundamental works of modern and contemporary art. Using oil on canvas, Paul proposes full-scale mirrors, iconic pieces by artists like the figurativist Francis Bacon, the exponent of British Pop Art David Hockney and the leader of the YBAs, Damien Hirst. Para além de aproximar o espectador de algumas das joias da Tate, a exposição Reflecting the Collection é veículo para inquietações recorrentes no trabalho de Paulo Almeida. O circuito das artes e sua legitimação, por exemplo, ocupam espaço privilegiado em seu imaginário estético, assim como a questão do espelhamento. Uma obra sua de 2009, exposta na coletiva obraMenor, já emulava a forma e a função de um espelho convexo, do tipo utilizado na vigilância de portarias de prédios: o quadro reproduzia, pintada, a imagem do espaço expositivo que seria refletida por um espelho, caso houvesse algum instalado na mesma posição.    In addition to bringing the audience to some of the jewels of the Tate Collection the exhibition Reflecting the Collection is the vehicle to recurring concerns in Paulo Almeida’s work. The circuit of the arts and its legitimacy, for example, occupy a privileged space in his aesthetic imagination, and the issue of mirroring. One of his works of 2009, set out in the collective ObraMenor, already emulated the form and function of a convex mirror, the kind used in surveillance of buildings entrances so that the painted picture reproduced the image of the exhibition space the way a mirror would reflect it if there were any installed in the same position.

Painting:Oil on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:55.1 W x 55.5 H x 1.2 D in

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