Gallery Geranmayeh is pleased to present "Perceptions in Balance," a new exhibition that explores visual perceptions, encompassing notions of right to left, time and gravity, simulacra to reality, history and culture. The artworks in this exhibition challenge each viewer to reconsider meaning by experiencing different mediums and concepts in relation to actual physical experience. The energetic works merge various elements from art and science, carefully sourced from the visualization and experiences of our surroundings. Each artist's unique philosophy, technique, and desire for a unified balance yield a distinct artistic vision.
The work of New York-based artist Isidro Blasco (b. Madrid, 1962) explores themes of spatial dynamics and perception by combining architecture, sculpture and photography. His installation recreates images and three-dimensional visual articulations of a particular place that provide insights into how we perceive ourselves in our own environments. Through distortions and re-creations, the resulting effects in his works are fragmentations reminiscent to Cubist collages. Blasco's three-dimensional sculptures offer the viewer to consider multiple points of view, provoking angular shifts in observational perception, and therefore creating spaces that are at once completely new and recognizable.
Blasco's work are included in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Queen's Museum of Art; Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Academia de Bellas Artes de Roma (Italy); Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Caminos (Spain).
Alberto Borea (b. 1979, Lima, Peru) is a New York-based artist, whose works are developed around the difficult and dramatic relationship between cultures and political histories. Balancing past and present with an approach that can go from the particular to the general, he weaves life experience within these spaces. The role of distance in cultural, economic and social events constitute an important part in the process and execution of his works. Borea creates a personal mapping exercise on various media, around specific places, and specific events. For Borea, the map represents a symbol of identity for individuals, peoples, and cultures. All of these aspects include the demand of a proper place justified by a fair and impartial level of democratic principles.
His works has been exhibited internationally in countries such as the United States, Peru, Argentina, Germany, England and Spain. Upcoming exhibitions include, "The S-files" El Museo del Barrio, New York and Dublin Contemporary. Borea's works are included in the Fundacion Cisneros (CPPC), New York, MCS Collection, Madeira, Portugal and the Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy.
Oswaldo Maciá (b. 1960, Cartagena, Colombia) is an artist based in London. Maciá describes his modus operandi in the following statement: "My work seeks to question assumptions about knowledge and perception. The ways in which we attempt to understand our place in the world is structured through conventions and expectations that often overwhelm our own direct perception of what surrounds us. Throughout my sound-sculptures, smell-sculptures, videos and installations, I aim to create encounters that initiate and reflect upon multiple relationships with what-is-believed-to-be-reality. My work sets out to complicate what-we-think-we-know by offering counter-perceptions in proposals to look harder, listen more acutely, and pay attention to the senses in order to think deeper about the structures of knowledge we rely on to construct that which is taken for knowledge."
Maciá's works on paper point to his interest in intensities and registers of balance stretching across a number of interconnected projects. Each work on paper is a type of blueprint or drawing study for his multi-media works, usually resulting in installations.
His works have been exhibited in prestigious exhibitions such as Tate Liverpool Biennale, the 51st Venice Biennial, the Shanghai Biennale, the VIII Bienal de La Habana, the Thessaloniki Biennale in 2009, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and the Whitechapel Gallery. Recently, Maciá's sound installation, titled, Something Going On Above My Head, (1999/2010) was acquired for the permanent collection of Tate Modern in London.
Vargas-Suarez Universal (b. 1972, Mexico City) is a Texas-raised, Brooklyn-based artist. To create drawings, paintings and multi-media installations, the visual data he mines is from the spaceflight programs operated by the U.S., Russia, Japan and the EU. Vargas-Suarez states, "I'm concerned with scientific aspects of form vs. function, remote sensing, aerospace architecture, earth observation, and materials sciences. By sourcing current scientific visualization culture, the work and my concerns enable me to understand, analyze and speculate on our relationships with nature, with artifice, and with ourselves."
For this exhibition, Vargas-Suarez presents a sculptural installation of paintings titled "Orbital Debris" (2011). These works include the use of metallic foil and industrial enamel paints used for aircraft and spacecraft. The chaotic composition resembles a space junk crash in space.
His work are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art Library, Whitney Museum of American Art, El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc. Archives (all in New York); Jersey City Museum, NJ; Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, RI; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin,TX; Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy; DA2 (Domus Artium, 2002) Salamanca, Spain; Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation, and the UBS Art Collection. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, Edizioni Charta, Milan and Right Brain Words, New York have published his writings. The artist also regularly lectures at museums, galleries and universities.