Zipper Galeria opens its 2011 schedule of solo exhibitions on March 19 (Saturday) from 12PM. Artist Carolina Ponte presents seven new works specially created for her first solo show at the gallery. The exhibition displays five large format drawings and two crochet and tapestry sculptures, peculiar media to the artist's work. The show runs until April 23.
The caring and the time spent during the entire creation process are intrinsic to the work of Carolina Ponte. The craft and ornamental values, typical of low-art, are incorporated into the artist's work without fear. More than a trend, this return to ornament is the trademark of an age that seeks to integrate basic values, such as the appraisal of ways of life guided by simplicity and union to nature, to a refined aesthetic sense and respect for good intellectual production.
According to critic Daniela Name, “The drawings and crochet works that Carolina Ponte presents in this exhibition show a moment in the artist´s career in which she makes the same movement with her own work as when she handles the needle and thread. (…) Her detailed and almost compulsive drawings come very close to the Baroque style, not only because of its excessive atmosphere and its counter-positioning of colors, but for creating a type of composition that goes back and forth to its theme, adding to it, in each return, a little more information”. Color and rhythm are essential to the work of the artist in any of the chosen media – her drawings on paper come to resemble textile patterns that directly refer to her crochet and tapestry work.
