At ArPa 2024, Millan presents Dois tempos [Two Times], exhibiting new works by Felipe Cohen and Vanderlei Lopes. The solo shows are themed on both artists' perceptions of the passage of time. On June 26th and 27th, Cohen addresses the theme in works that oscillate between representation and abstraction, with paintings of geometricized landscapes and objects in a reflective game of light and shadow. From the 28th to the 30th of June, Vanderlei Lopes occupies the booth with a series of sculptures that suggest the suspension of time, perpetuating the moment the flow of a golden bronze “leak” bursts through the walls.
Felipe Cohen
At ArPa, Felipe Cohen exhibits three series of works that articulate a study of landscape and the passage of time. Made up of paintings and three-dimensional objects such as vitrines and reliefs, this new set of works is full of sinuous and tapered shapes, like the hourglass, suggesting the construction of different topographies through the use of light, reflection, and geometry.
Tempo caído [Fallen Time] and Resto de luz [Remains of Light] are sculptural objects, similar to museum vitrines, that connect glass and stone elements in a game of reflections. In Tempo caído, a sandstone sculpture is positioned inside the vitrine, as though contained by the reflection of the glass funnel at the top. A similar process takes place in Resto de luz, where an onyx sculpture is imprisoned by the reflection of a light bulb. According to the artist: "In these two objects, the stone elements work as crystallized forms, like fossils of other materials. In the first, time itself and, in the second, light."
In the paintings, various sinuous shapes and arrangements allude to a geometric approach to landscape, suggesting different depths and topographies. Similarly, the series of reliefs is constructed by overlaying sheets of white-painted wood. Here, Cohen emphasizes the relationship between light and space, creating, as the artist himself says, "different paths so that the light in the exhibition space can travel over the surface of these works."
Felipe Cohen (1976, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo. He has had solo shows at Capela do Morumbi (São Paulo, 2013), and at the Centro Universitário Maria Antonia (São Paulo, 2006), and has participated in many group shows in institutions including, the Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, USA, 2017), Beijing Minsheng Art Museum (Beijing, China, 2017), the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (Lyon, France, 2014), Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo, Norway, 2013), and the 8th Bienal do Mercosul (Porto Alegre, 2011), among others. His works are also included in important public collections, including the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, MAM São Paulo, MAR (Rio de Janeiro), and SMoCA (Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA).
