#jacleirner

[arte-rock]

UKCT. "Estou no Brasil". Jaime Gozzolli (vocal), Walter e Antonio (guitarras), Ricardo Salvagni (bateria), Jac Leirner (baixo), Radar Tan Tan, São Paulo, 1983

[arte-rock]

U.K.C.T. Radar Tan Tan, São Paulo, 1983

[mario-loureiro]

#jacleirner #nelsonleirner #marcoschaves (em Centro Cultural Fiesp)

[annesartblog]

Little bulb by Jac Leirner - lightbulb after several miles of copper wire #jacleirner #FruitmarketGallery (at The Fruitmarket Gallery)

[wiktoria-szmidt-fad]

The Fruitmarket Gallery - Edinburgh

Jac Leirner - Add It Up

The Fruitmarket Gallery was my favourite out of the theee visited. I felt like I could fully submerge myself into Leirner's work and understood more what her thoughts and reasons behind her pieces were. Skin (2013) is one of the pieces exhibited at the gallery. It is made up of 2,448 white rolling papers which are stuck to the wall on their own adhesive strips and bend around to make them stand out. The papers lose their function and instead become a very simple yet effective piece of artwork.

[tolookup]

"I try to examine how my surrounding is perceived and remembered. To do this, I listen to a whisper from objects within my surroundings. I attempt and intimate, private dialogue with the world, trying to concretely present the way other things approach me, by using other mediums"

- Beom Kim

Recommended by the Brazilian artist Jac Leirner in a sushi restaurant in Sao Paolo. Jac is so switched on to other artists around her, she always teaches me about art that I've never heard of. They met at the Sharjah Biennial earlier this year....

[vamtra]

Jac Leirner - Sharjah Biennial 12, 2015

Jac Leirner (Brazil 1961)

Various works

From her earliest works, Jac Leirner has worked with found objects, ready-mades and everyday detritus. Her obsessive accumulations of cigarette packaging, shopping bags, hardware and, at Sharjah Biennial 12, banknotes, rulers and Sudoku puzzles entangle her conceptual practice with Arte Povera and Dadaist and Pop movements, while formally recalling Concrete art, Minimalism and Constructivism.

For SB12, the artist presents a selection of existing and new works from three series. The first is constructed from cruzeiro banknotes and dates back to the 1980s and 1990s, an inflationary decade for Brazil that saw the rapid devaluation and eventual collapse of the currency. In Os cdm (roda) [The one hundreds (wheel)] (1985-86), thousands of now-worthless hundred-cruzeiro notes are strung together to form a circle, which obscures their function and identity. Two new works, both titled métrica minima [metric minimum] (2015) are made from hundreds of completed Sudoku puzzles, grids of numbers and handwritten mathematical solutions that reveal the artist´s subjectivity. The works Big Transparency, Small Transparency and Yellow Rules (all 2015) make up the third and final series presented here. A continuation of her three-decades-long practice of assembling large quantities of the same materials, often small units of everyday objects, to create a new whole, these works employ common rulers in simple yet rigorous installations of pure mathematics and form.