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DANIELA RIBEIRO
«The Observer»
5th Dec 2008 - 10th Jan 2009
Opening: Friday the 5th of December at 22.00h
Gallery Opening Hours: Monday through Friday from 11.00h > 20.00h
Saturdays from 15.00h > 20.00h
The António Prates Gallery opens next 5th of December, Friday, at 10pm, an exhibition by the young Portuguese artist, Daniela Ribeiro. The exhibition will present approximately 40 works, and 2 installations: a "spaceship" and a "scientological confessional". The artist will be present at the opening. This is her first solo show at the António Prates Gallery.
The show by Daniela Ribeiro presented at the António Prates Gallery approaches several topics of great currency to the highly technological and alienated social reality in which we live today. The idea for this show comes from the artist's fascination with artificial intelligence, and the investigation she has undergone on the theme. In current times, man has gone from being a creation to being a creator in himself. Man generates technology and machines that make communication more rapid, but also more devoid of emotions. The human being must now learn to relate with this new technological reality. A symbiosis will come to pass between biological and artificial intelligence.
One piece in the show, entitled "Scientological Confessional", alights on the growing emotional and communicational alienation that people live daily. Although there are more and more means of communicating, and with greater speed, people are increasingly more disconnected from each other, substituting central elements of their emotional anchoring with mobile phones, computers and televisions; religion is taken over by science, a mother or father's advice is substituted by letting burdens out over a phone to whoever will hear us. To that effect, the confessional, of scientific contours, allows the observer to confess themselves on the cell phone.
In this show, the artist has recycled technological materials, deconstructing them, and reconfiguring those materials into new forms, giving them new and complex meanings, that apart from being quite beautiful, lead the observer to think of technology in a different way. Showing us she is conscious of the growing global concern with the environment, the artist wanted to use this industrial waste also as a way of calling attention to that issue.
The show is sponsored by TMN, who contributed 1000 mobile phones used by the artist in her works, as a way of recycling industrial waste. The show is also sponsored by IMV - Italian Motor Village who also contributed materials for the works created.
Daniela Ribeiro was born in Mozambique in 1972. She lived in Angola and attended the French high school there. In the eighties she moved to Paris and also attended the French high school. Later she returns to Angola and attends a Portuguese school. In 1993 she takes degree in Design, Image and Creation by Computer, in Portugal. In 1998, she completes the Licenciatura in International Relations, at the Lusíada University of Lisbon. In 2000, she attends the Painting course of the National Fine Arts Society, in Lisbon. In 2006 she enters the Ar-Co school, in the sculpture course. In 2006, she specializes in Silicon and Resin molds at the Pascal Rosier school of Paris, and is invited by Maître Pascal Rosier to teach, in Lisbon. She has been showing individually since 2002, in locations in Portugal and abroad, of which we note: Espaço Correa e Terenas, 2003; Convento do Beato, 2004; Galeria do Centro Cultural de Ermesinde, 2005; Galeria da Ordem dos Engenheiros, Lisbon, 2005; Galeria Arte Dose, 2006. In 2004, she is invited to create a work for the television programme "Cartaz das Artes", of TVI channel. In 2005, she is invited to create 4 works for the Restaurant Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon. In 2006, she creates the ArtinPark Association which manages a space of 3000 m2 with 60 ateliers for young artists at the start of their careers, in different artistic areas. In that same year she also invited to create two panels for the Rentipar group and, to create the reception console and two panels for the headquarters of the Mais Bank, projected by the Architect Birne. In 2006, she shows at the Lisbon Art Fair in António Prates Gallery's stand. In 2007, she shows at the Art Madrid Fair and the Lisbon Art Fair in António Prates Gallery's stand. In 2008, she once again shows at the Lisbon Art Fair with António Prates Gallery. In 2008, she presents her first solo show at the António Prates Gallery.
On the occasion of this show, a bilingual catalogue will be published (port. - eng) by the gallery, with full colour illustrations of the works in show.
The exhibition will be open to the public unitl the 10th of January 2009 and entrance is free of charge. |
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