VÉRTIGO
A Solo Exhibition for Ángela Ferrari

*Blood and Dust* by Ángela Ferrari, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2024

Vértigo

8 May, 2024 - 15 June, 2024
Opening Reception: Wednesday 8 May, 6pm and onwards

Vertigo - a “sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height” - this is the effect that Ángela Ferrari creates with her monumental paintings, in particular, with her largest painting to date titled Blood and Dust.

In the case of this painting however, the viewer is not looking down from a great height but looking up at one - craning their necks to see the entire canvas, feeling as if they are being engulfed by the painting. Not only does the scale of the painting cause this sensation, but so does the perspective in which it was painted. The plants (painted larger than actual size), make the viewer feel as if they are themselves inside of the painting, walking through a jungle or a forest, and the animals above, hurling through the sky, furthers a sensation of being lost in space.

The theme of this painting carries carries on throughout the other works in the exhibition, through what began as a the depiction of the "sport" of hunting as an allegory for colonization and violence, a depiction of power, a way of expressing power through depiction, a means of storytelling, and a self-education in portraying the local flora - has evolved into a multi-leyer animal universe, with a feminist approach to a genre of painting meant to adress bodies in a moment of vulnerability.

This exhibition consists of a collection of pictorical moments related to concepts of desesperation, power, depredation, and rest - through seven portraits, five drawings, and a triptych sculpture.

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On view: 8 May, 2024 - 8 June, 2024

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 12noon to 5pm or by appointment (please contact max@maximiliancontemporary.com to schedule).

Location: Angstroms in Mexico City

Calle Aguascalientes 112
Colonia Roma Sur, Cuauhtémoc
Ciudad de Mexico, CDMX

* to find the gallery, walk to then end of the public parking lot and enter the gate in the back corner *