April 1, 2022 - April 30, 2022, 2022-04-30
April 1 – 29, 2022
ATA Window Gallery
The Echoes series consists of fractal-like forms painted on plywood. Multi-surface shapes are reimagined and rendered on a single plane, whilst exploring the dimensionality of the larger installation space. Smaller framed artworks from the Amplification series are affixed onto these new colorscapes. The palette is a nod to recent interior design trends, intermixed with found paints from renovated Victorian homes—an embrace of contemporary and historic aesthetics in the Bay Area landscape. The Echoes series was presented at Minnesota Street Project’s Staging Gallery and ATA Gallery on Valencia Street in San Francisco’s Mission District.
The Echoes series is on view at ATA Gallery’s window space on Valencia Street until April 29th. This body of work consists of energetic, fractal-like forms painted on plywood, reimagining three-dimensional shapes on a single plane. The artworks, suspended from four surfaces of the installation space, integrate smaller framed pieces from the Amplification series into their larger colorscapes. This palette is a nod to contemporary interior design trends, intermixed with found paints from historic Victorian homes.
ARTWORK TITLE
SF No. 63, Echoes
ARTWORK DETAILS
SF No. 63, Echoes Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4, Amplification series, plywood, house paint, color sample cards, graphic tape, Canson millimeter paper and customized frames, 2017 – 2022
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Portuguese-American artist Mário Pires Cordeiro experiments with media and color as he explores the interaction between art and design, with a larger intention to comment on the interwoven relationship between visual art and functional objects. His practice is deeply rooted in the theme of color—unpacking the symbolic and cultural meanings imposed on it in contemporary society by sourcing colors from trends and design forecasts as well as from particular environments or publications.
Born and raised in Portugal, Pires Cordeiro received his B.A. in Fine Art Painting from Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa before moving to the United Kingdom to pursue further studies. An awardee of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant, Pires Cordeiro earned an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts London, where he later pursued a PHD as well.
He exhibited internationally and collaborated in different countries such as Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the United Kingdom. Over the course of his thirteen years in London, he was awarded the Arts Council England Grant, the Arts Council England Awards for Artists prize and the European Leonardo d’ Vinci Grant Award. His work has been exhibited in museums, art fairs, galleries, independent art projects, and commercial spaces. Pires Cordeiro regularly collaborates with architects, designers, writers, musicians and scholars. He moved to San Francisco and established MPC Studio in 2015.
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