Sergio Vega's Shamanic Modernism at Umberto Di Marino
Sergio Vega (Buenos Aires, 1959; lives in Gainesville, Florida) presents a monumental installation at Galleria Umberto Di Marino in Naples, exploring the hybridization between rationalist modernist architecture and the South American landscape. The exhibition critiques modernist ideology that transformed Brazil in the 1960s, exacerbating social fractures. Works include 'Social Landscape' and 'Interventions on a book' (both 2016), and 'Modernismo Chamánico: Cathedral–Pineapple–Bossanova' (2016), which adopts zoomorphic and phytomorphic models. Vega states: 'Modernist architecture has gone elsewhere, forgetting Cartesian logic, entering a tortuous territory under the protection of shamanism.' The show runs until December 31, 2016.
Key facts
- Sergio Vega was born in Buenos Aires in 1959 and lives in Gainesville, Florida.
- The exhibition is a single monumental installation occupying all spaces of the gallery.
- It examines hybridization between modernist architecture and the South American landscape.
- Vega critiques modernist ideology that changed Brazil in the 1960s.
- Works include 'Social Landscape' and 'Interventions on a book' (both 2016).
- Also on view: 'Modernismo Chamánico: Cathedral–Pineapple–Bossanova' (2016).
- Vega uses zoomorphic and phytomorphic models in his work.
- The exhibition runs until December 31, 2016 at Umberto Di Marino in Naples.
Entities
Artists
- Sergio Vega
Institutions
- Galleria Umberto Di Marino
- Artribune
Locations
- Buenos Aires
- Argentina
- Gainesville
- Florida
- United States
- Naples
- Italy