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Adriana Varejão

A Galeria Fortes Vilaça tem o prazer de apresentar novos trabalhos de Adriana Varejão. Numa grande virada no curso de sua produção, a artista mostra cinco pinturas tridimensionais que surpreendem por suas cores, formas e imagens jamais vistas em seu trabalho, ao mesmo tempo em que alinham-se conceitualmente à produção anterior da artista.

Todas as pinturas têm a forma de pratos fundos de um metro e meio de diâmetro, e apresentam de forma singular personagens míticos e frutas frescas, fundos dos mares, conchas e castelos de areia. Se em sua conhecida série de Azulejões, a artista ampliava a escala do azulejo português, desta vez ela toma como ponto de partida a produção de Bordalo Pinheiro no século XIX, em Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. A artista amplia a escala dos pratos e apropria-se de temas, cores e transparências, além dos elementos tridimensionais originalmente presentes nestes pratos como ornamento.

A carne crua e os charques dão lugar aqui a frutos frescos, que como num banquete, são servidos em pequenas porções. Em Mãe d’água, uma sereia negra reina altiva sobre um fundo de mar revolto azul profundo cercada de seres marinhos e de um menino negro com a pele machada de branco, que se confunde com a espuma do mar. Sobre a superfície côncava do prato estão jabuticabas maduras de casca brilhante e escura, inteiras e redondas. Toda a superfície foi desenvolvida por Adriana para que pudesse ser finalizada à óleo, tanto o fundo quanto os frutos tridimensionais.

Num outro prato, Sereias Bêbadas nadam em torno de suculentos figos, seus corpos se confundem com frutas e conchas numa imagem de erotismo latente, “um erotismo natural, sem mal e sem psicanálise”. Em Nascimento de Ondina, outro fundo de mar - este povoado por algas ou corais - revela uma sereia que carrega uma criança no colo. Algumas conchas estão neste prato e uma delas, entreaberta, guarda um feto. Outra imagem de fertilidade aparece na gema de ovo de Pérola Imperfeita, na qual mergulhadoras nuas nadam sobre um fundo de bronze ligadas a um enorme ouriço do mar.

Os pratos são pintados na frente e também no verso, com padronagens de origens distintas: ming, song, marajoara, catalã. Na quinta pintura, um Castelinho de Areia, aparece flutuando sobre o azul. A arquitetura mole e precária parece reafirmar um certo aspecto onírico de todas as outras figuras. A artista sinaliza assim para o fato de que dentro de sua ficção histórica ¬ deste enorme emaranhado de histórias e tempos diversos - há espaço também para as narrativas particulares, interiores, e para reflexões atemporais.

No momento, a editora Cobogó finaliza o maior livro já feito sobre a obra de Varejão. A publicação cobre desde o início de sua carreira no final dos anos oitenta até os trabalhos desta exposição. Com quatro textos e cento e vinte obras reproduzidas, o livro será lançado no início de 2010.

Adriana Varejão

Galeria Fortes Vilaça is pleased to present new works by Adriana Varejão. In a significant shift in the course of her production, the artist is showing five three-dimensional paintings whose colors, forms and images are surprising inasmuch as they are unlike anything she has done before, even though they are aligned conceptually with her previous production.

All the paintings are in the form of deep plates measuring one and one-half meters in diameter which present in singular way scenes of mythical characters, fresh fruit, ocean bottoms, shells and sandcastles. If in her well-known series Azulejões the artist enlarged the scale of blue Portuguese wall tiles, this newest set is based on the 19th-century production of Bordalo Pinheiro, in the Portuguese city of Caldas da Rainha. The artist enlarges the scale of the plates and appropriates themes, colors and transparencies, as well as the three-dimensional elements originally used in the ornamentation of these plates.

The raw meat and jerked beef of previous works have given way to fresh fruit, served in small portions, as at a banquet. In Mãe d’água [Water Deity], a Black mermaid nobly reigns over the depths of a stormy deep blue sea, surrounded by sea creatures and a little Black boy whose mottled black-and-white skin blends with the sea’s frothy waves. On the plate’s concave surface there are whole, round, ripe jabuticaba fruits with shiny, dark peels. The entire surface of the plates was first developed, followed by finalization of the sea bottom and the three-dimensional fruits in oil paint.

Another plate, entitled Sereias Bêbadas [Drunken Mermaids], presents apparently inebriated mermaids swimming around succulent figs, their bodies blending with the fruits and seashells in a latently erotic image, “a natural eroticism, with no bad intent or psychoanalysis.” Another undersea scene – this one inhabited by algae and corals – is found in Nascimento de Ondina [Birth of Ondine], the predominant image here being that of a mermaid cradling a baby on her chest. The seashells on this plate include a half-open one with a fetus inside. Pérola Imperfeita [Imperfect Pearl] features another image of fertility, an egg yolk, around which nude female divers connected to an oversized sea urchin swim, contrasted against a bronze background.

The plates are also painted on their backs, with different patterns: Ming, Song, Marajoaran, Catalan. In the fifth painting, Little Castle, a sand castle is seen floating against a misty blue background. The soft and precarious architecture seems to reaffirm a certain oneiric aspect seen in all the other figures. The artist thus signals that among her historic fiction – this huge interconnected tangle of stories from various times – there is also space for private, inner narratives, and for atemporal reflections.

Cobogó Publishers are now finalizing the largest book to date on Varejão’s work. The publication will cover the period spanning from the beginning of her career in the late 1980s up to the artworks in this exhibition. With four texts and 120 images of artworks, the book is slated for release in early 2010.


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