Artrooms2015 Renata Fernandez ATC SERIES and related works

ATC SERIES AND RELATED WORKS ARTROOMS2015 23 – 26 January 2015 Melia White House Hotel. Regents Park London ORGANIZERS Le Dame Art Gallery, Triumph UK and GEM Creative

RENATA FERNANDEZ

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ARTROOMS2015>>RENATA FERNANDEZ

“Both drawings and paintings compound the poetic sense that something lies behind what we are seeing, some thing intangible and distinctly unfriendly. Yet on the surface all is well. We are in the tropics, the plants and leaves are beautiful, we are in a kind of paradise - what can be wrong? This is how the best Art often functions, it demands that you the audience do some of the work. It evokes things that seem like things you already knew, but did not quite find the phrase or image for. (…)Fernandez’s work in all its forms as objects, paintings and drawings has a unity and conviction. It implications and meanings can be applied to a specific situation, or can be taken universally. That’s just one of it’s many strengths.”

Colin Smith Painter. M.A.( RCA) . Harness Fellow to Yale University Editor and writer Turps Banana Magazine

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Welcome to ARTROOMS2015

In 2015, London will be welcoming an innovative concept of art exhibition that offers independent artists the opportunity to exhibit their artworks in the intimate dimension of 76 luxury hotel rooms. On January, art buyers will have one more reason to show up in London, as two important events will dress the capital with contemporary art during the same week. One of these is the established London Art fair, one of the UK’s leading exhibitions of the sector. The other event is ARTROOMS2015 set for the 23rd – 26th of January, a new fair that will convert the entire first floor of the Level at Meliá White House Hotel into an exhibition space. According to its organisers – Le Dame Art Gallery, Triumph UK and GEM Creative – the new art fair has been conceived around the importance of the visitor’s experience. To assure an impeccable first edition, the artworks on show are being selected by a Committee. Among its members there are Roberta Cremoncini, Director at the Estorick Collection, Greta Scacchi, Ian Rosenfeld, Curator at Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery and Arturo Galansino, Exhibition Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts www.art-rooms.org For more information about ARTROOMS2015 please email to Lorenzo Stabile – Marketing and PR Manager – [email protected] +44(0)744 530 0859

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Renata Fernandez (Caracas, Venezuela) lives and works in London since 2003. Last year Fernandez had her first solo show on a museum (Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela). The main feature of this show titled “TROPICO CAMUFLADO”, was a 2 by 16 meters long mural made of 14 individual large format charcoal drawings from the ATC series. As well as an intervention of the Museum’s façade, the largest public art work in recent years in Caracas, Venezuela. Most recently her work was shown at the iconic MINT Shop in South Kensington, during the London Design Week. Fernandez had solo shows in the UK, Spain and Venezuela, and her work features constantly in this city, as well as in France, Belgium, Spain and Venezuela. Her work is in several private collections in Venezuela, Spain, USA, UK, France, Germany and Belgium. The works on show at ARTROOMS2015 are her most recent work, such as large charcoal drawings from the compelling ATC series, as well as small drawings that go beyond certain aspects already present on the large drawings that precede them: exploring and revealing to the viewer the intricate geometry of nature. These pieces make use of the extrapolation of the minimum of elements, the humblest of techniques: line making. Also present in ARTROOMS2015 are paintings that both accompany and precede the drawings: Silas and Wife series, year 2008. These paintings, with their limited palette, come from the time Fernandez was developing her first large format charcoal drawings. In her studio practice, different techniques sit alongside each other, feeding on each other’s findings and evolution. The first drawings drained the then jewel-like palette from her earlier paintings. Her paintings became exercises on texture as well as composition, allowing no more than three colours at one time. This influence also hovered over her sculptures: the pieces present at ARTROMS2015 became tri-dimensional drawings, elements of compositions draw on the floor, also painted with the black and white tones of her drawings.

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ATC SERIES (23) 01-07-14. 2014. Charcoal on paper. 208 x 167 cm

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ATC SERIES (24) 22-09-14. 2014. Charcoal on paper. 208 x 167 cm

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ATC series Pencil (1) 29-03-14. 2014. Pencil on paper. 36 X 49 cm

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MD (Midnight Drawing) A4 (1) 13-7-14. 2014. Pitt pastel pencil on paper 180g. 37.5 x 27 cm

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MD (Midnight Drawing) A5 (1) 28-7-14. 2014. White colour pencil on paper 180g.27.8 x 20.5 cm

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MD (Midnight Drawing) A5 (2) 30-7-14. 2014. White colour pencil on paper 180g. 27.8 x 20.5 cm

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Blanco. 2010. Timber, paint. 49 x 49 x 49 cm.

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Silas Family portrait. 2008. Oil, wax on hardboard. 50 x 50 cm

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Silas and Wife Family Portrait. 2008. Oil, wax on hardboard. 50 x 50 cm

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RENATA FERNANDEZ >> Caracas, Venezuela, 1971

Degree in Fine Arts. Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón. (IUESAPAR) Caracas, Venezuela. [1991-1996] / Social Sciences and Media Studies. Universidad Católica Adrés Bello (UCAB). Caracas, Venezuela. [1988-1993] / Drama, Set Design.AGO Teatro. Caracas, Venezuela. [1988-1995]

SOLO SHOWS [2013 - 14] "Tropico Camuflado" Museum Alejandro Otero. Caracas. Venezuela. October 2013- March [2009] Family Portraits. Convent Sant Agusti. Barcelona. Spain [2004] High Street Tiger Hunting. Tricycle Gallery, London. UK [2003] Everyday Epic. 198 Gallery, London. UK [2001] The Battle of the Poppy. Stamford Art Gallery, East Anglia. UK

GROUP SHOWS, selection [2015] ARTROOMS ART FAIR, Regent’s Park. London [2014] Elements of Craft. Mint. London Design Festival, September. London [2012] Cluster II, curated by Manuel Sanmartin. SW1 Gallery, London, UK. [2011] 8è Art & Matière. Mirabelle de Lorraine, Lucey. France. November East Pop Red. With the Unconscious Collective. London. October. Exposition de sculptures à Hanzinelle, Bruselas. May - june. Organized by the collectors Jacques et Dominique HAYEZ Fiztrovia Noir Collective, Intervention Art Trail, Fitzrovia London W1. London March – April 2011. www.fitzrovianoir.com [2009] NYAXE Galllery. Autumn Show Contest, October - November. Distinguished Finalist. Emerson St. Palo Alto. California [2007] Run, Rabbit, Run. Co-curator and participating artist Primo Alonso Gallery, London. UK Flock, curated by Helene Kazan. Deviate Projects, in GX Gallery. London. UK

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[2006] NOTIONS OF DRAWING. Curator, organizer, participating artist. 17 artists exploring the possibilities of drawing London. UK RUTHLESS-PECKHAM 2. Organizer, participating artist . London. UK [2005] RUTHLESS-PECKHAM 1. Organizer, participating artist . London. UK [2003] 9th East England Contemporary Art Auction. Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham. UK [2002] Sporting' Art. North Light Gallery. Yorkshire. UK 8th East England Contemporay Art Auction. Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham. UK [2001] Atkinson Gallery Summer Exhibition. Millfield School, Somerset. UK [1999] New English Art Club, Mall galleries, London. UK [1997] IX Bienal Internacional de Vila Nova de Cerveira. Portugal. [1996] La Mirada. Museo Jacobo Borges de Caracas. Venezuela. Del Oeste. Museo Jacobo Borges de Caracas. Venezuela

AWARDS [2001] 2nd Award Atkinson Gallery Summer Exhibition. Millfield School. [1994-96] Scholarship, Asociación Venezolano Americano de la Amistad (AVAA). Venezuela [1993] Orden José Félix Rivas, Third Class, Given by the Venezuelan government, for artistic accomplishments as an emerging Venezuelan artist

COLLECTIONS Private collections in the UK, USA, Spain, France, Germany and Venezuela

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