04.03.2022
Until March 19, 2022
Gobernador Rafael Refollar 94, San Miguel Chapultepec I Secc,
Miguel Hidalgo, 11850 Ciudad de México
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In this exhibition, Leonor Antunes continues her exploration into the legacy of different female creators of the 20th Century that are often a source of inspiration for the artist. The life and work of complex figures such as Anni Albers (1899–1994), Clara Porset (1895–1991), Eileen Gray (1878–1976), Léna Meyer-Bergner (1906–1981) and Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) are the subject matter of Antunes’ study, recreation and subsequent representation in sculptural objects that echo this generation of artists and designers from years back. For the exhibition at kurimanzutto, Antunes surveys the life and work of Léna Meyer-Bergner during her residency in Mexico from 1939 to 1947.
For her exhibition, Antunes weaves relationships between Léna Meyer-Bergner and other creators that generated new discourses focused on design, production techniques and how objects respond to their social and political context. Trude Guermonprez (1910–1976), Kay Sekimachi (1926), Michiko Yamawaki (1910), Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999) and Greta Grossman (1906–1999) lived similar lives where they had to emigrate or escape from their respective countries due to the war and later made important contributions to institutions such as the Black Mountain College or the Bauhaus. References to their work can be discovered in Antunes’ sculpture and serve as an intersection of the original intention of the designers and architects that that gave them life, alongside the inquisitive mind of the artist. Every element of the sculptures takes a technique and specific material that was studied and developed by the designers, who after finding themselves in new environments were exposed to new artisanal traditions that they incorporated into their work. The careful use of a variety of materials ranging from bronze and jute fabrics, to bamboo and wood, form architectonic sculptures that veil and reveal the space of the gallery and provoke a rhythmic displacement of the public between them.
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