Adriano Amaral, new work

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Title
Adriano Amaral, new work
Description
While the internet, prosthetics, solar panels, and touch screens can each be seen as ways of ‘upgrading’ human experience, a more elemental and subjective tendency seems to be gaining value again. Intuition, emotion, and imagination have become central tenets and, akin to the movement of Romanticism that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, Enlightenment’s emphasis on a purely rational outlook is being called into question. Adriano Amaral investigates the place of materiality by creating environments in which natural and synthetic elements merge, forming hybrids between technology and mysticism.

With an intuitive approach towards materials, combining industrial and discarded personal objects, Amaral creates site-sensitive installations that model the exhibition space as an encompassing experience. In his response to existing architectural qualities, Amaral both subverts and transforms them. Although discussions about the relationship between the human and the artificial have intensified in the last couple of years, this relationship is nothing new. Humans are, and always have been, reshaped by the objects and technologies they create. In his work, Amaral accentuates this relationship by combining found materials, trying to find “the most natural way to extend objects synthetically.” By doing so, he investigates and tests the social and environmental implications of materials and their interactions, suggesting a flow of energy and movement between them.

The exhibition is curated by guest curator Julia Mullié and is a collaboration with Pivô in São Paulo, where the exhibition will open 30 May 2020.

Participants

Adriano Amaral

Curators

Julia Mullié

Network

Pivô

Supported By

AMMODO, Embassy of Brazil in The Hague, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, Brazil, the artist’s fee is supported by the Mondriaan Fund (from the Experimental Regulations), technology is provided in partnership with Beam Systems

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Identifier
KIM-EXH-2154
20_1
Type
Exhibition
Date
2020-01-19/2020-08-23
Temporal Coverage
2020
Publisher
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
Spatial Coverage
Rotterdam
Language
en
Is Part Of
Exhibition history
Rights Holder
Kunstinstituut Melly
Creator
Adriano Amaral
Contributor
Julia Mullié
Relation
Pivô
Source
https://www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/en/exhibitions/2154-adriano-amaral-new-work
depiction
https://www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/images/fkawdw_008481image.jpg?w=1500
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