Bekanze Project Space reopening with a Group Exhibition

MIAMI - June 8, 2020 - PRLog -- "The Future has a way to arrive"

As a reopening event, this group exhibition brings together works by Frida Baranek, Bruno Castro Santos, and Maria Fernanda Barrero. The exhibition celebrates the notion of impermanence, the beauty and inevitability of change and uncertainty in life. And just as it is in the making of art, artists in the exhibition engage within this element of uncertainty,  which is usually unwelcome and sometimes it might represent fear, self-doubt and conflict. Within this uncomfortable, daunting feeling of the unknown exploration of a future, lies what makes the unknown be part of the now.

Frida Baranek (Brazil,  1961). Lives and works in Miami.  www.fridabaranek.com
Frida Baranek earned an M.A. in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins in London in 2012 and a B.A. in Architecture at Santa Ursula's University in Rio de Janeiro (1984). Throughout her career, Baranek has defied the resistance of materials to guide their metamorphosis: to build with and against their natural inclination. Her work is the expression of her perceptive faith, where perceiving and imagining are two ways of thinking.  In 2013, she was a recipient of a mid-career survey "Confrontos" at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro. Her sculptural installations have been included at Bienal de São Paulo (1989),  Bienalle di Venezia - Aperto (1990), MOMA in New York (1993), Maison d'Amerique Latine (1995), Ludwig Museum in Koblenz (2005), The Frost Art Museum in Miami (2018), in addition to many others. Her work is part of many private and public collections, such as Patrícia Phelps de Cisneros in New York; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C.; "Ministere de La Culture, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain", in France; at The Museums of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro and of São Paulo. In 2018, Frida was nominated by the Frost Art Museum in Miami and The Smithsonian Institute "Women Who Make History", the 14th Annual Smithsonian Museum Magazine Day. Most recently, Baranek was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Sculptor Grant.

Bruno Castro Santos (Lisbon,  1972). Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.  www.brunocastrosantos.com
Bruno lived in the United States between 1990 and 1998 where he completed a bachelor of architecture in the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.  Subsequently, Bruno concluded his academic studies with a Master's Degree in Advanced Architecture Design from Columbia University, New York. Following a decade of architecture practice and teaching, he gradually devoted himself to the arts, having completed in 2012 the Advanced Fine Arts Degree from Ar.Co. Since 2012 the artist has been showing his work collectively and individually in galleries, institutional and cultural venues in Portugal and abroad. His work has been featured in group exhibitions in institutions and galleries such as Sala do Veado, Museum of Natural History Lisbon (2012) Forum Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, Evora (2012), Palácio Viscondes de Balsemão, Oporto (2015), Contemporary Arts Center, Malaga, Spain (2015), João Esteves de Oliveira Gallery (2017).  His work features in several institutional collections such as Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, The Benetton Foundation, The Malaga Centre for Contemporary Art, The Portuguese Republic Museum and several private collections. Bruno Castro Santos, has been developing his artistic practice in the fields of drawing and painting. His contact with architecture, has defined not only Bruno's artistic practice ideas for scale, order, rhythm and symmetry, but also frameworks for a dynamic dialog between order and chaos, simplicity and complexity. His abstract geometric language, and his artistic compositions engages the unique junction between the unknown and the assume stability of order.

Maria Fernanda Barrero (Mexico,  1981). Lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico.   www.mariafernandabarrero.mx
María Fernanda Barrero was born in Mexico and received a BFA Cum Laude from the Universidad de Monterrey in 2004. Then in 2008 she completed her MFA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London, UK. Barrero's work is found in many collections, including: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Monterrey, Mexico (MARCO), Lucciano Benetton Collection Venice, Italy, Mino Washi Museum, Japan; Art in Embassies, US Consulate at Monterrey Collection; Berel Collection, Monterrey, Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; the Latino Museum in Omaha, NE as wells as several private collections. Barrero uses sculpture to examine how our perceptual experiences and our spatial sense of self connect us to this life network. Her work engages with modes of lights, that acts as a vehicle to connect us with silence and unknown spatial experiences. Her tools are the monochrome, color, silence, light, and the containment of space. Her motifs are everyday objects such as books or chairs, enclosed spaces, everyday observations, plants, landscapes, stars, the earth and the sky, dawn and dusk. Her fundamental actions consist of replicating, containing, constructing, tracing, mapping, weaving, joining, and embracing. With these, she seeks to elaborate a full poetics of paradise, to achieve symbiosis, to draw interdisciplinary elements from botany, literature, geography, and astronomy into life continuums, e.g. running through what is up and down, miniature and massive. Indeed, these are all latent metaphors for the interdependent network that is life.

On View June 4th -  July 18th
www.bekanze.com
Bekanze Project Space is located at 3094 Fuller Street, Miami, Fl 33133.
By Appointment  at  https://Bekanze.as.me/