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andrea canepaornamento y sistema (eng)

Andrea Canepa

1980 / Lima, PerúStudied at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, where she graduated with a MA in Visual Arts and Multimedia. Recently awarded the coveted prize of “ Generacion 2014 ” of Caja Madrid, Spain, she also obtained in 2012 , the second prize at the French sponsored “Pasaporte para un artista,” Lima, Peru. In 2010 Canepa was awarded with the SWAB prize for drawing during the international Fair of Contemporary Art in Barcelona.In 2011 she engaged in an artistic residence at UCL, Slade School of Fine Arts in London, granted by the Pilar Juncosa-Sotheby’s Grant.She had her first solo exhibition in 2009 in the Rosa Santos Gallery of Valencia with whom she exhibited in ARCO 2012. “Ornamento y Sistema” is her first solo show in Wu Galeria, Lima, Peru.

ornamento & sistema

inventario

2013

installation of 3700 drawingsdetail

In Ornamento y Sistema, Andrea Canepa draws us into a world where daily objects that surround our private domain, are transformed into devices which question public reality. The exhibition presents pieces that are the result of the deconstruction and later re-systematizing of four typical bourgeois decorative elements. These objects remit us to moments of leisure, recreation and journey: a branch of flowers, a series of petit- pois embroideries of home loving motives, puzzles that represent distant and idyllic landscapes and a Persian carpet. Canepa’s artistic proposal consists of altering the above mentioned the objects modifying and even depriving them of their decorative function. Following thus, the avant garde tradition of the modernist design, the artist distils that which is superfluous to renew them as purified entities.

In March 1, 2013 I entered a flower shop and asked for a flower arrangement with: 1 white broom (ECB.BC.) 2 yellow daisy (MDRT.AMARL.) 3 fuchsias alstroemeria (ATEMR.FS.) 3 tuberous asclepias (ACP.TBRS.) 3 fuchsias gerberas (GER.FS.) 3 oranges buttercups (RNCL.NRJ.) 3 white roses (RS.BC.) 4 wax flowers (FDCR.) 4 branches of ivy (HD.) 4 branches of mistletoe (MDG.) 8 branches of palm areca (PM.ARC.)I took it home and drew one by one all the pieces that composed the flower arrangement and then organized them by order and size.

In Inventario, the artist deconstructs the flower arrangement and draws obsessively each of its elements: stems, leaf by leaf and petal by petal, giving each one a code and number.

inventario

chinese ink on paper

variable formats

installation of 3700 drawings

Petit pois wool embroideries bought in flea markets. Unstitched, and then embroidered back again on the same

surface with the same wool threads.

“A second chance to rephrase the question”

2013

arreglo de flores en cesto

25 x 25 cm2013

embroidered wool on canvas

paisaje alpino con cabaña y pinos

27.2 x 38.8cm2013

embroidered wool on canvas

green piece (s)

70 x 50 cm2013

Puzzle made from green tone pieces taken from eight different puzzles.

printed cardboard.

blue piece (s)

70 x 50 cm2013

Puzzle made from blue tone pieces taken from different puzzles.

printed cardboard.

Western carpet is a carpet whose ornamental elements have been reordered by size, according to a principle of economy and the hierarchic order of its elements.

western carpet

240 x 170 cm2013

Wool handmade carpet designed from the deconstruction of a 19th century Serapi

Persian carpet

STUDIES

2007-2008 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Facultad De Bellas Artes San Carlos, MA in Visual arts and multimedia.2004-2006 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Facultad De Bellas Artes San Carlos, Degree in fine arts 2000-2003 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Faculty of Arts.1998-1999 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Estudios Generales Letras

AWARDS

2013 “Generación 2014” - Caja Madrid - ENDESA award for the Fine Arts - Madrid, Spain Artistic Residence Fundación Cité des Arts. París, Francia.2012 Second place in: Pasaporte para un Artista,Alianza Francesa. Lima - Peru2011 Artistic residence granted by Pilar Juncosa-Sotheby’s Grant, UCL Slade School of Fine Arts. London- UK 2011 Artistic Assistant of Ignacio Uriarte, Bancaja Leonardo-ADEIT Grant. Berlín, Germany 2010 Drawing award Swab, Arts Fair Swab Contemporary. Barcelona, Spain2008 Second plance in Jóvenes Creadores de Madrid, Fine arts. Madrid’s City Hall, Madrid Spain2006 Valencia Crea Award, Video-art Category. Valencia’s City Hall, Valencia, Spain

SOLO SHOWS

2013 Ejercicios de localización, Galería Rosa Santos. Valencia, Spain Ornamento y Sistema, Wu Galería, Lima, Peru 2011 The Fragile Assembly of Everyday Life, Laboratorio de Arte Joven 8 LAB). Murcia, Spain2009 El Revés de lo Doméstico, Rosa Santos Gallery. Valencia, Spain

andrea canepa1982 / Lima, Perú

GROUP SHOWS

2014 Ornamento y Sistema, Solo Project, ARCO Madrid 2014. Madrid, Spain No View - Wu Galería. Lima - Perú2013 Colección DKV - Dibujos Centro de Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN). Huesca - Spain2012 Pasaporte para un artista, XV Concurso Francoperuano de Artes Visuales, Centro Cultural PUCP. Lima, Peru.2012 La tiranía de la intimidad, Centro Cultural de España. Lima, Peru2012 Arco International Fair of Contemporary Art, Rosa Santos Gallery. Madrid, Spain2011 Swab, Rosa Santos Gallery. Barcelona,Spain2010 Preview Berlin, Rosa Santos Gallery. Berlín, Germany2010 Un Teatro Sin Función, Los Manatiales Theater. Valencia, Spain2010 Swab, Galería Rosa Santos Gallery, Barcelona, Spain2009 Art/Salamanca/09 Fair of Contemporary Art, Rosa Santos Gallery. Salamanca, Spain2009 La Otra, Galería 80m2. Bogota, Colombia2009 Dibujo: Nuevas Propuestas, Galería 80m2. Lima, Perú2009 Valencia.ART, Fair of Contemporary Art, Rosa Santos Gallery. Valencia, Spain2008 After the net, Observatori Festival. Valencia, Spain2008 Co-produce, Experimental film festival . Halle, Germany2008 Mudanzas, Espacio LaFurgoneta. Valencia, Spain2007 Mad Max, Centro Cultural Telefónica. Lima, Perú2007 Costuras, Presentation of the group LaTejedoraCCEC”. Valencia, Spain2006 Multiple X, Goethe-Institut. Porto Alegre, Brasil2006 Omnívoros 2, 10mo Video/Art/Electronic Festival (VAE10), Centro Cultural de España. Lima, Perú2006 More or Less, Museu da Ciência e da Indústria. Porto, Portugal