01.Estela Sokol. Polarlicht series. Mármore pintado. 20,5x50x15cm. 2012. Foto Fernanda Figueiredo e Eduardo Mattos

Primavera, by Estela Sokol

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Exhibitions

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Saturday, Sep 21

Karla Osorio Gallery presents the exhibition Primavera, the first solo exhibition of Estela Sokol in Brasília, featuring more than 50 works and curated by Julie Dumont. The opening took place on Saturday, September 21st, with a happy hour in the gallery gardens. The exhibition is displayed in 2 pavilions and 5 galleries and will be on view until November 16, 2024.

Opening: Saturday, September 21, 2024, with a happy hour at Karla Osorio Gallery in Brasília.

About Primavera

The exhibition Primavera by Estela Sokol synthesizes a decade of her artistic production, focusing on the essence of forms and colors and their relationships with light and space. Engaging with neo-concretism, relational aesthetics, and updating the concept of the sublime, Sokol invites the viewer to interact not only with the art but also with the environment. As Belgian curator Julie Dumont states in her curatorial text for the show, “the artist’s work proposes a new poetic perspective on the relationship between humanity and nature.”

Her conceptual search unfolds in her works, showing her interest in balance, operating a play of weights and tensions between materials and forms, a back and forth between day and night, sun and moon. This constant search for the geometric essence of things and colors, and their relationships with space, is evident. In the play of symmetries, Estela Sokol establishes a direct relationship with the world, its silhouettes, and nuances, which she synthesizes to the extreme. Thus, in her works, we find the structures and palette of everyday life: the slightly toxic orange of an urban sunset, the pinkish hue of dawn by the sea, the soft contours under the moonlight, or even the reflections captured on the surface of the water or the white mantle of snow, now displaced onto the exhibition walls.

Estela Sokol, Estudo para uma Coisa ao Lado e em Cima da Outra (2016): Cera de abelha pigmentada e madeira, 15,5 x 11 x 9,5 cm
Estela Sokol, Mastrinho (2016): Mármore e parafina, 56 x 23 x 8 cm
Estela Sokol, Tapestry Series 9 (2024): Feltro sobre chassis, 80,5 x 80 x 4 cm
Estela Sokol, Tapestry Series 8 (2024): Feltro sobre chassis, 167 x 110 x 4 cm
Estela Sokol, Estudo para uma Coisa ao Lado e em Cima da Outra (2016): Cera de abelha pigmentada e madeira, 15,5 x 11 x 9,5 cm
Estela Sokol, Tapestry Series 2 (2024): Feltro sobre chassis, preto, 45,5 x 75 x 5,5 cm
Estela Sokol, Tapestry Series 1 (2023): Feltro sobre chassis, azul escuro, 50 x 85 x 4,5 cm
Estela Sokol, Pirulito (2023): Mármore pintado, 220 x 14 x 8 cm
Estela Sokol, Palete (2014): Mármore, 40 x 130 x 12 cm
Estela Sokol, Beijinho (2022): Mármore pintado, 29 x 60 x 29 cm
Estela Sokol, Rima Simétrica - Martelo (2018): Madeira maciça, 26 x 110 x 15 cm
Estela Sokol, Ibiza em Miami (2018): Arenito pintado, 250 x 25 x 5,5 cm

About Stela Sokol

Estela Sokol (1979, São Paulo) lives and works in São Paulo. Color and light are central elements of her research, and the artist transforms the use of materials to bring the pictorial reasoning closer to sculptures and objects. In her works, she uses different materials such as beeswax, resin, foam, pigment, stone, paraffin, concrete, brass, wood, copper, graphite, various fabrics, ceramics, among others. The artist combines these with raw materials and painting techniques such as encaustic, dyeing, glazing, spray, and enamels, insisting on finding a new status for color.

The different nuances and tonal changes are recurring in the artist’s works and processes, revealing themselves more emphatically in public art works and interventions in nature, as well as in paintings made without using paint. In recent years, she has held solo exhibitions in places such as the Museum of Taipa (Macau, China), Gallery 32 (London, England), Paço das Artes (São Paulo, Brazil), Centro Universitário Maria Antonia (São Paulo, Brazil), Galerie Wuensch (Linz, Austria), Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), and Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil). She has participated in group exhibitions such as “Gasträume Public Art” (Zurich, Switzerland); “13th Mercosul Biennial” (Porto Alegre, Brazil); “Prometheus Fecit” at the National Museum Soares dos Reis (Porto, Portugal); “Beyond the Point and Line” at Mac Usp (São Paulo, Brazil); “3rd Biennial of the End of the World” (Ushuaia, Argentina); “16th Cerveira Biennial” (Cerveira, Portugal); “Light Art Biennale” (Linz, Austria); “Urban Interventions Bradesco Artrio” at the Museum of the Republic (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); “International Tridimensional Biennial” at the National Historical Museum (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); and “New Art Nova” at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil), among others.