NO LUGAR GALLERY PRESENTS “NEOTROPICAL FABLES” BY TEO MONSALVE
It is a solo exhibition where Monsalve exhibits works in painting, drawing, collage, photography, objects and video art.
Neotropic is the scientific name that has been given to the tropical region of the American continent. The fauna and flora that inhabit South, Central and North America are called Neotropical. This exhibition brings together several projects that the artist has been developing in the last 3 years. Monsalve presents series in various formats, media and supports that invite us to speculate on the relationship between art and nature.
Through time the observation of nature has been the subject of narratives that have built myths in the social and popular imagination. Based on these constructions, knowledge and understandings of the world, the artist proposes new interpretations that fabricate new stories based on dialogues between natural history and art history.
The works in this exhibition use various languages and pose hybrid and plural narratives. With his practice, Teo weaves together visual universes that work to create new readings not yet established in the disciplines he uses as a reference (biology, astronomy, anthropology). In this sense, his work proposes dialogues with histories of representation such as natural history and art history, to decode their structures, reinterpret them and take a look at other ways of understanding the world.
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Imágenes cortesía de No Lugar Galería
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Cuentos del cielo | Medios diversos sobre impresión inkject de constelaciones del Atlas Estelar Uranometría de 1603 de Johann Bayer | Dimensiones variables | 2019-2020
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ST de la serie Portales del Tiempo Cíclico | Óleo, pintura de laca y vidrio de murano sobre madera y marco de artista | 37x34 cm 2019
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Imágenes cortesía de No Lugar Galería
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Imágenes cortesía de No Lugar Galería
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Imágenes cortesía de No Lugar Galería
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Imágenes cortesía de No Lugar Galería
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Noche estrellada | Óleo, acrílico, pintura de laca, papel de cabuya sobre lino | 2020
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Noche estrellada | Óleo, acrílico, pintura de laca, papel de cabuya sobre lino | 2020
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Migración Neotropical (serie) | Collage | 2019-2020
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Piedras de la memoria | Objeto, pintura de laca | Dimensiones variables | 2020
Teo Monsalve (Quito 1988). Visual artist. He holds an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her practice has developed in various media: painting, drawing, engraving, installation and performance. Her research and production focus on issues related to the natural world. His interest in this field has led him to reflect on and question themes and concepts related to concepts and constructions such as landscape, flora and fauna, from a post-humanist perspective. Interweaving narratives of different histories of representation (natural history and the history of painting), Monsalve finds intersections and generates dialogues between myth and science. In this sense, his work addresses other ways of understanding the relationship between time and nature in order to construct his own story. He has participated in group exhibitions in Ecuador, Canada, the United States and Mexico; He’s also had four solo exhibitions: Despertar (No Lugar, 2010), SER de los Andes (Galería Ileana Viteri, 2016), Paraíso Perdido (La ideal, 2017) and Metamorfosis Ambulante (Khora, 2018). He currently works as a teacher at USFQ, working and living in Quito, Ecuador.
No Lugar
Vicente León N9-40 y Esmeraldas
La Tola, Centro Histórico de Quito
