the time is now…!

“The Border of the inquietude”

Closing Concert by Eugenia Mendez
“Obra Parlante | Flor de Cuatro Puntas”
Galeria São Mamede – Porto | 11.05. | 6:30pm

Press Release

For Immediate Release

“Obra Parlante, Flor de cuatro puntas” at Galeria Sao Mamede | May 11 | 6:30pm | 8:30pm

Galeria Sao Mamede is pleased to present a unique closing event for the solo exhibition of renowned visual artist Gustavo Mendez-Liska. In collaboration with the talented composer and musician Eugenia Méndez, they embark on an unprecedented artistic experience with “Obra Parlante, Flor de cuatro puntas”.

Eugenia Méndez, recognized for her brilliant career as a composer, arranger, singer, and instrumentalist, joins Gustavo Mendez-Liska to debut this exciting project in Portugal, conceived since early 2019 and now culminating in a series of presentations in Porto and Vienna.

“Obra Parlante” merges the disciplines of visual arts and music into a visual and auditory symphony that challenges conventional boundaries of art. In this special occasion, Galeria Sao Mamede becomes the stage where Gustavo Mendez-Liska’s vibrant creations come to life through Eugenia Méndez’s musical interpretation.

This event aims to captivate the audience with its innovative artistic proposal and offers an immersive experience where spectators delve into a universe of emotions and sensations. From contemplating the visual artworks to experiencing live music, each element of “Obra Parlante, Flor de cuatro puntas” intertwines to create a dialogue between forms and sounds, inviting the audience to explore new perspectives and connections between the arts.

“Obra Parlante” at Galeria Sao Mamede promises to be an unforgettable event that celebrates creativity, collaboration, and the ability of art to transcend boundaries and generate transformative experiences. We thank you for your support and sponsorship to make this exciting presentation possible.

For more information and press inquiries, please contact:

Gustavo Mendez-Liska
+436607262640
mendez-liska@gmx.at
https://www.gustavomendezliska.art/

Galeria Sao Mamede
R Miguel Bombarda, 624 4050-379 PORTO
+351 934 388 500 Tel. +351 226 099 589
galeria@saomamede.com
https://www.saomamede.com/

Galeria São Mamede

Closing Concert 11.05.2024 | 6:30pm.

7R. Miguel Bombarda, 624
4050-379 PORTO

Project organized by the São Mamede Gallery in which the artist Gustavo Mendez-Liska presents a series of works with a profound commitment to painting and sculpture, whose practices are linked to the constant refinement of techniques and treatments of form, colour, light and space. In Gustavo’s case, the meditative character and dense
geometric constructions in which he works the space as the body of the work, the spectator as the body of a structure that establishes a temporal suspension that hovers over the concept of his research that comes from the beginning, there in Caracas in his based on the concretism and geometric structures of the great South American masters.

He crossed the ocean, here in Austria he continues his tireless research based on his based on his fellow countrymen, not letting escape his keen curiosity to broaden his horizons beyond the pictorial technique of painting and drawing, today Gustavo presents us with not only a group of work that I can consider powerful and dynamic graphic structures, but also a strong unfolding and knowledge of his research, now influenced by the European school, specifically the Italian Arte Povera movement, working on the limits of counter culture and of great masters such as Giuseppe Penone, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, to name but a few of them.

In the work it is not enough just to demonstrate through cut-outs, overlaps, lines and black masses black that invades the pictorial space, but we can also feel, visualize, penetrate in this world of plots and locks that Gustavo presents us with.

This body of work produced between 2018 and 2023 is presented to us in a globalised, universal because Gustavo’s work could be produced anywhere in the world.

Here and in all other places and continents that want to appreciate and connect with Gustavo’s work is to allow us to have a piece of himself, of his story and of his journey the streets, alleys and lanes of a cold Vienna, but which, with Gustavo’s work, becomes warm and welcoming.

Text © Luiz Martins 2023

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