MONOPOLY WORLD-SLOTH PROJECT-22-4- 2010
SEVEN SINS PROJECT
DRAWINGS
MONOPOLY WORLD-SLOTH 2010-4-22
DRAWINGS PENCIL ON PAPER
153X264CM
2009/2010
Drawing Award- Beaux-Arts France Active.
First prize- Lauréa du Concours France Active 2009
Galerie du Château de la Verrerie- Le Creusot, France.
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008
Group Show- 17th to 19th October 2009
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008PENCIL ON PAPER
140X260CM
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008PENCIL ON PAPER
260X140CM
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008PENCIL ON PAPER
30X40CM
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008PENCIL ON PAPER
30X40CM
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008PENCIL ON PAPER
30X40CM
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008PENCIL ON PAPER
30X40CM
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008PENCIL ON PAPER
30X40CM
WRATH- COME AND GO TO NOWHERE- 2008PENCIL ON PAPER
140X260CM
Six Months One Place- Sublime Envy. 2009
INDIVIDUAL SHOW
IN MY ROOM SPACE, PARIS
2TH TO 18TH NOVEMBER
32, RUE RODIER
PARIS 75009
M-2:ANVERS
M-7: CADET
M-12: NDdeLORETTE
70 DRAWINGS
PENCIL ON PAPER
140X120CM
2009
It was a double pleasure to discover Isabelle Faria's work and to meet the very sympathetic artist.
Even though I have only discovered her work recently, it is blatantly clear that it emerges from a passion for all artistic media, mostly tridimensional, namely committed and eloquent installations.
For In My Room, Isabelle Faria chose to exhibit a selection of works, this time in the shape of huge drawings, from her 2009 project entitled Six Months One Place: Sublime Envy. A portion of a project spread over several years on the seven deadly sins.
November in Paris will be under the sign of Envy.
I will therefore have the pleasure of welcoming a selection of the artist's large scale drawings.
Drawings seemingly alive because of their size, where the subject becomes a giant, drawn with such precision that light and matter come to life. The stroke is thick and distinct but the result is close to photography's brilliance and illustration's dexterity.
In these drawings I see the friendly connection that the artist may have had with her «subjects», a connection in which the «models» steal her show by taking possession of HER chair, the artist's chair, a simple office chair but the seat of all meditations.
The subjects invite themselves into her world and at the same time play the role of voyeurs by robbing parts of her «vision», by sitting on her throne. Are they envious or leviathans?
Above artistic desire, we can also feel the artist's desire to put forward «personalities» and human expression.
To me, Isabelle Faria is a complete artist with a passion for both art and the «being». One word comes to mind when seeing the path she followed for her work and her itinerant exhibitions, and that is «universal», not only because of her many journeys, and the cities she appropriated, but also because of the language of Art and her analysis of human behavior, two elements very present in her work and common to the entire world.
Olivia Lenard, Paris 2009.
Isabelle Faria’s addictions are reproachable because they are the cause of violent crimes and passions. Luxury (Where We Used to Live - Luxury, 2006), Vanity (What We Want is What We Get - Vanity, 2007), Wrath (Come and Go to Nowhere - Wrath, 2008) and Envy (Six Months One Place - Sublime Envy, 2009) are dense series of works resulting from an intense discipline that seeks to explain each named theme. These subject matters are conceptually interpreted and pictorially translated with more or less inter-relational display, although with clearly distinguishable project specificities. The black and white ostentation of Luxury’s landscapes and architectonic interiors led to the fierce colors of the car pile which, in Isabelle Faria’s view, expresses the idea of vanity. In both projects, essentially developed in oil paintings of large and medium size, the occasional installation has served both the process’s objectual synthesis as well as a solution for its exhibitive spatiality. Presented at Galeria 111 (Lisbon, 2006) and at Lisbon’s City Museum (2007) respectively, Luxury and Vanity introduced installation, thus suggesting a kind of spectacularity that in the meantime (or for the moment) has been abandoned. Luxury displayed the fragile and restrained installation of a castle of cards, while in Vanity one came upon the bold and apocalyptic use of neon light and a crashed tuned up car. The existentialist enterprise of Isabelle Faria’s capital sins has calmed down. It is now more inclined towards a mature investigation of its own thinking structure.
Wrath initiated a furious cycle of drawings, with a series of images depicting fires, police charges, crashed cars and crashed trains, planes stationed in airports, boats in troubled waters and snow storms. The study, observation and representation of catastrophes highlighted some of their immediate main characters – firemen –, as well as other less obvious ones – teachers –, given immortality in two different series of class portraits. The body’s former presence on the surface of the paper, materialized over and over in portraits and self-portraits, determines one of the most complex and stimulating derivations in the artist’s path. Moreover, it finds an improvement possibility in the attempt to visually translate the psychology of the social conflict, of authority and of the collective phenomenon. The individual and single-colored portraits of firemen entitled Twelve Portraits After Hockney in a Uniform Style (2008), drawn in an almost one-to-one scale, are a direct reference to David Hockney’s Twelve Portraits After Ingres in a Uniform Style (1999 – 2000), a series of pencil, pastel and gouache-colored portraits of each one of the London National Gallery guards. The series is itself a reference to Dominique Ingres’s portrait exhibition, which took place in that same museum, in 1999. After visiting it, Hockney took interest in what he called the “secret knowledge” of Renaissance paintings. Like Hockney, and by means of a compulsive atelier practice, Isabelle Faria also seeks to attain a totalizing mastery of the drawing’s language, seen as a principle and structuring vehicle of artistic knowledge. She therefore often displays some disinterest regarding a faithful and personal representation of the model.
On the last series of works by Isabelle Faria, Envy (Six Months One Place - Sublime Envy, 2009) proposes a double physical approach to the object. In the first place, the models are no longer anonymous agents of a certain professional group. They are individuals only recognizable as far as members of their own private and work circle. Architects, designers, artists and curators, they all feed the insatiable demand for the “other”, just as relatives, neighbors and clients of the same coffee shop would. Secondly, the place of that “other” is no longer distinguishable from the place of the artist herself. In a kind of presential miscegenation, visitors arrive by invitation at a normally and rigidly secluded atelier. They take hold of its primary element, the chair, even before they become aware of its fundamental importance. And they allow to be photographed. In surrendering to photographic image, and suspending the movement of their bodies, they are unconsciously returning back to space its original silence.
In 2002, dozens of sitters and pairs of sitters, also each other’s relatives, friends or lovers, went on a pilgrimage to Hockney’s London studio. They sat on office chairs and posed all day long in front of the artist’s camera lucida, just like others before them had done for Warhol’s screen tests. Without that same stoic demand made to the model and exploring a kind of negotiated casualty, Isabelle Faria’s essential material is extracted not from saturation or discomfort, but from the relatively comfortable transience of the visitor in question: the image of a body – the organic, unstable and variable element – systematically readapted to the same chair – the inorganic, stable and recognizable element –, and represented over the empty abstraction of the studio’s scenic setting.
The arbitrary positions of those men, one after the other in majestic verticality, suggest genuine relaxation. On the other hand, the stiff and Cartesian women are conscious of the female body’s projected social image. The men are sitting completely at ease, their legs open or stretched. The representation of their almost horizontal bodies is dynamic and deep, taking advantage of the low viewpoint and the focus on the waist line. Despite some less classical exceptions, the women are sitting in a frontal position, their necks straight, the legs prominently crossed and the hands correctly placed on the lap or the arms of the chair. Everyone is expressing boredom, restrain, empathy, shyness, extroversion, challenge, melancholy, satisfaction, seduction, impenetrability or availability. The body’s capacity to adapt to the chair’s ergonomics is a result of the power invested in a certain attitude, and the presence of the chair diminishes and disappears in opposite proportion.
Isabelle Faria’s work is accurate regarding light and perspective, elements that are worked against the paper in closely knit nets, with infinite lines of color. She is apt in manipulating the unevenness of treatment in terms of the texture detail of clothes and shoes, a kind of variable scale between hyper-realist accuracy and linear minimalism. And her work is intense in the expressivity given to faces by means of the aggressive drawing of face hair, beard, wrinkles and hair.
The atelier’s routine reveals itself in the need to feed the compulsive desire of creating, the addiction of scratching millions of colored pencil lines, the paranoia of filling the walls with sitting observers and carrying on drawing for them, in a massive and performative fashion. Such determination leaves us rotten jealous.
Lígia Afonso
September 2009
Vanity Project
Group Show
Parque das Exposições- Galeria Arade- Portimão
21 thMarch to 24 th May 2009
SMASHED CAR SURVIVER ON SPACE
OPEL TIGRA SCLALE 1
2007
Wrath - Come and go to nowhere, portrait after Hockney in a uniform style
12 canvas
pencil on linen
140x100 cm
Group Show
Pavilhão de Portugal
Wilhelm-spzier-strasse7A
Redbull-hangart
Salzburg- Aústria
www.hangart-7.com
21th Febuary to 13 th March 2009
140x100 cm
Group Show
Pavilhão de Portugal
Wilhelm-spzier-strasse7A
Redbull-hangart
Salzburg- Aústria
www.hangart-7.com
21th Febuary to 13 th March 2009
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