The work of the Guerra de la Paz duo of Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz (who have recently generated widespread interest among the Miami art-going public) creates its own world. Socks, shirts, pants, dresses, sweaters, and skirts become a forest of tree trunks, branches, leaves, and flowers. The result is Spring Sprang Sprung, a large-scale installation consisting of seemingly limitless numbers of garments, each telling the story of its prior owner and effectively mourning their losses. The recycling of the clothing comments on material excesses, while the fusion of the articles presents the notion of a society that, in spite of heralding the individual, is ultimately interconnected and whole.
Also overwhelming at times, Lilian Garcia-Roig paints outdoor environments over the course of several days, thereby capturing various shades of light into a single large-scale canvas. Her cumulative landscape approach results in dense, chaotic landscapes that engulf the spectator's senses with thick layers of paint, applied through finger painting, squeezing tubes of pigment directly onto the canvas, and applying paint with brushes. Her work is a visual barrage that creates the illusion of being hopelessly lost in the woods.
Magdalena Fernández and Angela Bonadies reference Venezuela's modernist history and art, predicated on the post-World War II oil boom a half century ago.
Fernández takes cues from Venezuelan geometric and kinetic abstraction in her video and installation works, making use of industrial materials such as aluminum, rubber and optical fiber, as well as natural light, water, and earth. Her 1pm006 ...More...
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