THE GEOMETRICAL SYSTEMS OF MARIELLA AGOIS IN THE MALI
Mariella Agois. Geometric Systems. Paintings 2008-2023 is the first anthological exhibition of the Peruvian artist's geometric painting at the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). It is curated by Jorge Villacorta and Paulo Dam.
The exhibition Mariella Agois. Geometric Systems. Paintings 2008-2023 includes a total of 30 geometric paintings of different formats that cover the geometric turn given in the painting of one of the most outstanding contemporary Peruvian artists. Through the interweaving of lines, surfaces and permutations, the artist plays with elements and combinations that used to belong to the mathematical sciences and are now presented as devices of pure visuality.
Curatorial text. By Jorge Villacorta and Paulo Dam.
In Peru, current geometric painting has an outstanding exponent in Mariella Agois, a Lima artist trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States, during the 1980s.
After her studies and back in Lima, the artist began, around 1990, a pictorial proposal based on the confrontation of aspects of abstraction –among them, pure geometry– with words and brief visual codes, as well as figurative elements or segments of them. In a sense, it echoed the position of the American artist Frank Stella, who, in the mid-1980s, asserted that, in painting, the isolated inclusion of a figurative element or motif will give an abstract result.
For almost two decades, Agois's inquiry in painting has led to the creation of a geometric art characterized by the construction of patterns.
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Mariella Agois (Lima, 1956). Margarita. 1997. Óleo sobre tela. 180 x 180 cm. Colección Armando Andrade
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Mariella Agois (Lima, 1956). Magdalena, 1997. Óleo sobre tela. 180 x 180 cm. Colección Armando Andrade
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Mariella Agois (Lima, 1956). Te tengo entre ojos. I Have You Between My Eyes 1996 Óleo sobre tela. 50 x 65 cm. Colección particular, Lima
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Mariella Agois (Lima, 1956) Caja 19 (Box 19), 2008. Óleo sobre tela. 130 x 160 cm. Colección particular, Lima
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Mariella Agois (Lima, 1956). Sin título II (Untitled II), 2011. Óleo sobre tela. 150 x 175 cm. Colección particular, Lima
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Mariella Agois (Lima, 1956). Sin título XV (Untitled XV), 2012. Óleo sobre tela. 180 x 200 cm. Colección particular, Lima
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Mariella Agois (Lima, 1956) Pliegue 45 (Fold 45),2020. Acrílico sobre tela. 200 x 200 cm. Colección MAC Lima
Mariella Agois was born in Lima in 1956. She studied photography in Lima with Fernando La Rosa and then continued her studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is considered a pioneer in contemporary Peruvian photography. She has been working in painting since 1980. She has had several exhibitions in Lima, Peru: Forum Gallery, ICPNA Miraflores, Lucia de la Puente Gallery, Del Paseo Gallery, as well as in many cities around the world: Buenos Aires, Miami, Madrid, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Quito, among others.
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