INFERNO

Joana Vasconcelos : Time Machine / MANCHESTER ART GALLERY, Manchester (UK) / 15.02.2014 / 01.06.2014.

L’artiste portugaise, très remarquée à la dernière biennale de Venise où elle représentait son pays dans le pavillon flottant du Portugal, un bateau recouvert d’azulejos amarré devant les Giardini, est en solo exhibition à la Manchester Art Gallery jusqu’au 1er juin prochain.

Pour sa première exposition à Manchester, Joana Vasconcelos a imaginé une installation textile monumentale spécifiquement réalisée pour le lieu.

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From 15 February 2014, Manchester Art Gallery will stage the UK’s most ambitious exhibition of works by Portuguese contemporary artist Joana Vasconcelos. Fresh from her success representing Portugal at the 55th Venice Biennale, Vasconcelos will bring her seductive and subversive large-scale sculptures to Manchester for an exclusive site specific exhibition. This major new show features over twenty of the Portuguese artist’s most significant sculptures, which fill our main exhibition spaces, adorn the outside of our building and permeate the whole gallery. It includes new and recent works – most on show in the UK for the first time.

The exhibition will feature the world premiere of a monumental new textile work that has been specially commissioned as a site-specific installation for Manchester Art Gallery’s atrium and staircase.

Visuels : Joana Vasconcelos : 1- installation au Palais national, Lisbonne, 2013 / 2- portrait 2014 / 3- Lilicoptere, 2012 / Copyright J. Vasconcelos