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Arabrab Fonseca is an upcoming Portuguese artist, currently living in Berlin. Her work is born as a reflection of the technological society that the artist wants to represent and is based on three formal characteristics: geometry, colour and dimension (bidimensionality/ tridimensionality).
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Arabrab Fonseca
Portfolio
Index
Sensorial Maps
Transformer
Mad Rainbow
Through an inkless palette, light and space were made
Biography
Resume
Exhibitions
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Through a game of abstract forms almost as an analytical judgment of reality, the real world is transported to an imaginary one, expressed by a group of abstract maps in a totally spontaneous way.
Each map contains a new plastic world of colour and shape showing how the artist sees or feels it.
It is about the construction of an universe where different forms may coexist through a free outline that aims to reach a balance by using the right colours that are capable of translating emotions and feelings, always in an intuitive way.
Sensorial Maps
Sensorial Map 4, 2011Mixed Media on Aluminium60 x 80 cm
Sensorial Map 1, 2011Mixed Media on Plexiglas
100 x 100 cm
Sensorial Map 3, 2011Mixed Media on Plexiglas100 x 100 cm
Sensorial Map 2, 2011Mixed Media on Plexiglas100 x 100 cm
The artist brings the painting to the real space, pulling it out from it’s usual medium and giving it life through it’s embodiment, as a sculpture.
In order to experience and inhabit the coded reality as apprehended by the artist, space becomes crucial.
The spectator has the chance to understand painting as if he had entered the canvas two-dimensional world and be surrounded by it’s contents.
Transformer
Transformer, 2012Enamel Paint on Iron
160 x 170 x 50 cm
Paintings are coded images especially when placed into surfaces that aim to represent something. An image is born when the artist is able to codify reality (space and time) into two-dimensions.
Imagination is the privileged tool of this synthesis process, enabling the human being
to reach a mechanism of abstraction through which he projects an image. At the same time as he is capable of this process, isn`t he also capable of doing the inverse by reversing the creative process?
With this in mind, paintings are images that through their reinterpretation turn into
objects capable of integrating the real world. It is a process that works the same way as a vicious circle: visible reality is codified into an image that later returns to its natural habitat. At this moment, objects may be interpreted and gave back into the real world of two-dimensional images.
Mad Rainbow
Mad Rainbow, 2013Enamel Paint on Iron200 x 150 x 0,5 cm
Pattern #2, 2013Digital Painting
100 x 100 cm
Pattern #1, 2013Digital Painting 100 x 100 cm
The project in development here consists on an investigation through the art field boundaries, more precisely, in painting and sculpture. It is born as a reflection of the technological society that the artist wants to represent and is based on three formal characteristics: geometry, colour and dimension (bidimensionality/ tridimensionality).
The conjugation of these three elements, not only leads to various theoretical contexts, which are absolutely needed to understand the primary aim of this project, but serves the purpose of showing this thread’s timeliness when compared to the contemporary art panorama.
The practical research bases itself on a simple work
method. Reality is decoded through a bi-dimensional exercise that turns later into a three-dimensional reality.
That reality creates an immersive space where the presence of the spectator seems to relate again everything to an experience where image takes place, bidimensionality again.
Through an inkless palette, light and space were made
Sketch, 2013Pencil and Compass on Graph Paper29,7 x 42 cm
Digital Drawing, 2013AutoCAD42 x 59,4 cm
Digital Painting, 2013Adobe Photoshop42 x 59,4 cm
Firstly, society is represented in a set of rigorously drawn lines. This lines create figures as the artist explores the geometrical possibilities of the triangular form.
Limited by the grid of the graph paper, this lines are drawn freely, allowing the development of a thorough and balanced structure, that will later on, become a three-dimensional sculpture.
At this point, drawing and constructive ability are brought together in the materialization of the sculpture. Hence, concluding the second part of the process.
Full Scale Model, 2014Kapaline40 x 40 x 40 cm
Digital Painting, 2014Adobe Photoshop
122 x 137 cm
Composition(Untitled)Sculpture#1;#4, 2014
Plexiglas
Composition(Untitled)Sculpture#2; #5, 2014
Plexiglas
Ana Bárbara Fonseca was born in 1990, in the the city that gave birth to Portugal, Guimarães.
From an early age, colour pencils were her best friends, helping her to discover the world by giving it colour and shape.
Colour pencils gave place to brushes and paint and soon her vision’s transcription was taken to a whole new level.
When she realized, art was already a big part of her life,
an artistic career was no longer a choice, it was a necessity.
Entitled with a Master in Painting, of the Faculty of Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon, also did a Bachelor Degree in Painting by the Faculty of Fine Arts in the University of Porto.
By fusing the academic apprenticeship with a total freedom of creation, an unique interpretation of the perceived world was originated.
Her work can be described as a game between colour and shape that reflects an imaginary world, as a reality codification.
As a result of an exercise between the two and the three-dimensionality, her work is a conjugation between painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture.
Along the journey her artistic language developed naturally as a reflex of our ever-changing times.
Arabrab Fonseca
Resume
ACADEMIC INFORMATION
Master Degree in PaintingFaculty of Fine ArtsUniversity of Lisbon, 2015
Degree in PaintingFaculty of Fine ArtsUniversity of Porto, 2012
Secondary School in Visual ArtsE. S. Martins Sarmento, 2008
LANGUAGES
English - C1FCE - British Institute
Spanish - C1
Portuguese - Native
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Advanced
Painting; Sculpture; Drawing; Writing; Photography; Illustration
Moderate
Photoshop; Illustrator; Office; Audiovisual
EXTRAS
Erasmus Program - 1 YearFaculty of Fine ArtsUniversidad Complutense de Madrid - 2010/11
1 SculpturePrivate Collection of Artur Bual s̀ Gallery, Amadora, Lisbon
Artist at Circus Network
Painting Classes - 2001/7
Driving Licence Category - B1
Exhibitions
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2012
“Salao de primavera XXV”Casino EstorilEstoril, Cascais
“Match Point”Galeria do Palácio na Biblioteca Almeida GarrettPorto
“12 x 12”Galeria da TravessaLapa, Lisbon
2013
“Open Day”Espaço Bala Porto
“12 x 12”Galeria da TravessaLapa, Lisbon
“22”Galeria VAAGBenfica, Lisbon
2014
“Vertical Horizontal”Galeria Municipal Artur BualAmadora, Lisbon
“Shair” InaugurationGaleria Emergentes dstBraga
“12 x 12”Galeria da TravessaLapa, Lisbon
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2014
“A pintura depois da tinta” MoustachePorto
© 2015Design: André Ramos e Bárbara FonsecaRevisão: Nuno Queirós
