Gravações Perdidas [Lost Recordings] lends continuity to the researches carried out by Chiara Banfi in regard to musical instruments and sounds, one of the interests which have pervaded her work from the outset of her career, in the form of collages, drawings, performances and paintings. It reveals the artist’s intimacy with the living substance of things, which for her is always associated to music.
In the solo show Gravações Perdidas [Lost Recordings], Banfi presents seven new works of her most recent series entitled Silêncio [Silence]. Here, Banfi took analog magnetic tapes used in the recording of old vinyl records and placed them on sheets of aluminum measuring 160 by 126 cm each. In this way, the observer can visualize horizontal fields left by the transfer of the sound to the magnetic tapes, creating a writing of sound made up of the grooves and intervals that correspond to the pauses between songs.
The polyptych Edições em uma gravação perdida [Editings in A Lost Recording], can be considered an unfolding of the Silêncio series insofar as it uses the same technique, while including a wider variety of shapes and colors. In this universe linked to music, O magnífico mundo novo da música [The Magnificent New World of Music], of the Discos Vazios [Empty Records] (2013) series, materializes the finalizing of a currently obsolete process. A set of 36 vinyl records, also known as LPs, are presented alongside their album covers, in wooden frames, thus suggesting the completion of an anachronistic ritual in our days of MP3, which involved a different relation between the body (hearing) and sound.
Chiara Banfi / Selection of solo shows: No No Yes Please, Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2013]; Sunburst, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil [2012]; Place to Be, GaleryRio, Nantes, France [2010]. Selection of solo shows: Prospect 1, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA; Além da Biblioteca, Itochu Aoyama Art Square, Tokio, Japan [2013]; 32º Panorama da arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna [MAM SP], São Paulo, Brazil [2011]; Blooming Brasil-Japão: O seu lugar, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan [2008].
Gravações Perdidas [Lost Recordings] lends continuity to the researches carried out by Chiara Banfi in regard to musical instruments and sounds, one of the interests which have pervaded her work from the outset of her career, in the form of collages, drawings, performances and paintings. It reveals the artist’s intimacy with the living substance of things, which for her is always associated to music.
In the solo show Gravações Perdidas [Lost Recordings], Banfi presents seven new works of her most recent series entitled Silêncio [Silence]. Here, Banfi took analog magnetic tapes used in the recording of old vinyl records and placed them on sheets of aluminum measuring 160 by 126 cm each. In this way, the observer can visualize horizontal fields left by the transfer of the sound to the magnetic tapes, creating a writing of sound made up of the grooves and intervals that correspond to the pauses between songs.
The polyptych Edições em uma gravação perdida [Editings in A Lost Recording], can be considered an unfolding of the Silêncio series insofar as it uses the same technique, while including a wider variety of shapes and colors. In this universe linked to music, O magnífico mundo novo da música [The Magnificent New World of Music], of the Discos Vazios [Empty Records] (2013) series, materializes the finalizing of a currently obsolete process. A set of 36 vinyl records, also known as LPs, are presented alongside their album covers, in wooden frames, thus suggesting the completion of an anachronistic ritual in our days of MP3, which involved a different relation between the body (hearing) and sound.
Chiara Banfi / Selection of solo shows: No No Yes Please, Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2013]; Sunburst, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil [2012]; Place to Be, GaleryRio, Nantes, France [2010]. Selection of solo shows: Prospect 1, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA; Além da Biblioteca, Itochu Aoyama Art Square, Tokio, Japan [2013]; 32º Panorama da arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna [MAM SP], São Paulo, Brazil [2011]; Blooming Brasil-Japão: O seu lugar, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan [2008].
