{"id":440,"date":"2012-03-07T02:15:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=440"},"modified":"2012-03-07T02:21:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:21:23","slug":"exhibition-carlos-noronha-feio-at-imt-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/exhibition-carlos-noronha-feio-at-imt-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition – Carlos Noronha Feio at IMT Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Noronha Feio – Plant Life of the Pacific World<\/h2>\n

at IMT Gallery, London<\/h2>\n

March 1 to April 2, 2012<\/h2>\n

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Plant Life of the Pacific World<\/em>is a controversial exhibition ofdelicate flower and plant forms assembled from collaged photographs of nuclear explosions. In this new work Noronha Feio plays with the relationships between beauty, conflict, the foreign and the domestic.<\/p>\n

Each work has been classified in accordance with American botanist E. D. Merrill\u2019s book from which the exhibition takes its name. Originally published for military use in 1945, the book\u2019s dry classification of flora is transformed by Noronha Feio into an explosive revelry of intense, amoebic forms. Plant Life of the Pacific World defuses one of the most recognisable symbols of destruction, horror and power to create a sumptuous taxonomy combining the nuclear mutations of popular fiction, the evolutionary mutations of Darwin\u2019s Galapagos and an imagined botany of Bikini Atoll, whose use as nuclear testing grounds followed the book\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n

At a time when the debate on copyright of audio-visual material is in the public consciousness with the consideration of the US online piracy bill, Noronha Feio\u2019s collages are also a pertinent exploration of the transformation in meaning through the reuse of imagery. Amongst the more organic structures and those that almost resemble insignia and geometric designs, the work presents a constant interplay between chaos and order, growth and organisation, the handmade and the appropriated.<\/p>\n

CARLOS NORONHA FEIO is a multimedia artist whose works explore cultural, local and global identities and the instability of meaning. He has exhibited and performed widely in the UK and abroad including the Whitechapel Gallery, London; the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow; Navicula Artis, Saint Petersburg; Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes; Colchester Art Centre, Colchester; Abrons Art Centre, New York; Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian and Funda\u00e7\u00e3o EDP in Lisbon and Centro cultural Helio Oiticica in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

IMT GALLERY is a contemporary art gallery based in East London, founded by Lindsay Friend in 2005 as IMT. The gallery exhibits emerging and established artists working across all media and specialises in installation, sound art and Polish new media art. In 2011 IMT became IMT Gallery and began representing artists alongside its exhibition programme. The gallery represents: David Burrows, Corrado Morgana, Carlos Noronha Feio, Alejandro Ospina, Plastique Fantastique, Gordon Shrigley, NaoKo TakaHashi and Mark Peter Wright.<\/p>\n

(from the gallery’s press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

IMT Gallery
\nUnit 2\/220 Cambridge Heath Road
\nLondon E2 9NQ UK
\n+44 (0) 20 8980 5475
\nHours: Thursday to Sunday 12:00 – 6:00pm<\/p>\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

Image:
\nCarlos Noronha Feio
\nPlant Life of the Pacific World Figure 83: Lantana camara<\/em>
\nPhotographic collage on paper
\n21 x 29 cm
\n2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plant Life of the Pacific World is a controversial exhibition of delicate flower and plant forms assembled from collaged photographs of nuclear explosions. In this new work Noronha Feio plays with the relationships between beauty, conflict, the foreign and the domestic.<\/p>\n

Each work has been classified in accordance with American botanist E. D. Merrill\u2019s book from which the exhibition takes its name. Originally published for military use in 1945, the book\u2019s dry classification of flora is transformed by Noronha Feio into an explosive revelry of intense, amoebic forms. Plant Life of the Pacific World defuses one of the most recognisable symbols of destruction, horror and power to create a sumptuous taxonomy combining the nuclear mutations of popular fiction, the evolutionary mutations of Darwin\u2019s Galapagos and an imagined botany of Bikini Atoll, whose use as nuclear testing grounds followed the book\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n

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