Dolores Furtado
Bio
Dolores Furtado (b.1977, Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in New York. Recent shows include Ultimate Nature , The Clemente Soto Cultural Center, New York (2017); 4th AIM Biennial , Bronx Museum of the Arts (2017); “ City Limits: Inside, Above, Within”, El Barrio’s ArtSpace PS109, New York (2017); Sinister Feminism , A.I.R. Gallery Biennial , A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn (2017); Epsilon, abstracciones descentradas, MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires (2016); Governors Island Art Fair (2015 and 2016); Arcos de Conexión , Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahía Blanca, Argentina ( 2014); Una persistente forma de estar en el mundo, Casa de la Cultura del Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014); among others.
In the mind - 2017
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96 x 48 x 48 inches
In the mind - 2017
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96 x 48 x 48 inches
Fantasmita - 2013
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50 x 30 x 30 inches
Untitled - 2013
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8 x 13 x 7 inches
Protoforma II - 2013
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80 x 90 x 50 inches
Protoforma I - 2013
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75 x 50 x 50 inches
Statement
Dolores Furtado practice is based in her interest in matter, which she exposes in a raw naked way: matter becomes body. She works largely with formlessness. The works originate from basic shapes, roughly manipulated, so that their angles and edges disappear. The initial geometry is lost in an organic deformity. Her sculptures suggest the idea of the body through flesh, and its precarious solidity. In a wide range of formats and sizes, her sculptures highlight process, through tactile marks, scratches, and object-based prints. She thinks of her sculptures as documentations of process and action.