Ana Mazzei’s first commission for a public institution in Scotland is a large-scale installation. The Brazilian artist presents a series of work over two floors, where abstracted sculptural forms pertain to states of mind, and taken together suggest an open-ended narrative.
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Cedar wood, varnish, steel wire and soundtrack composed by Gustavo Riviera and Paulo Kishimoto
An unfurled temple stands in the shape of a semicircle, having survived an unnamed disaster. Is this a confrontational encounter between the forms and viewer, or a staged architectural background for our own private narratives to play out on? Other works congregate in groups, invoking both formalist sculptural exercises and fragments of characters, lost in unidentified stories.
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Offering shifts in perspective and viewpoint, the installations create a deliberate sense of somehow being caught in a choreographed game, with sculptures that take on their own vocabulary of forms, conjuring half-remembered episodes or fragmented mythologies.
Ana Mazzei, Other Scenes (detail), 2019-2021 Ana Mazzei, Other Scenes (detail), 2019-2021
This exhibition is supported by British Council, Henry Moore Foundation and The Pipe Factory, Glasgow.
11 Jun — 27 Jun 2021Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm.
For more information visit: glasgowinternational.org