Angela de la Cruz: After
Camden Arts Centre
1 April – 30 May 2010
Installation view
Photo credit Andy Keate
Courtesy the artist and Camden Arts Centre

Angela de la Cruz : After
Anna Maria Maiolino : Continuous

Artist: Anna Maria Maiolino, Angela de la Cruz
Venue: Camden Art Center, London
Date: Apr.01-May.30 2010
Website: http://www.camdenartscentre.org/

 Angela de la Cruz, an artist of Spanish origin active in London,
and Anna Maria Maiolino, an installation and media artist of Ita-
lian descent from Brazil, are each having their solo exhibitions
at Camden Art Center.
 Angela de la Cruz's first solo exhibition, After, held in a public
art gallery, features works that experiment on the boundary be-
tween painting and sculpture. The artist confronts the authori-
ty of painting by accepting 'painting' as an objet, crashing, twi-
sting, and folding it, and through this process she annuls the
purity of the media, freeing herself from the traditional definiti-
on of painting and ultimately dismantling the fantasy surround-
ing the media. The sense of space and weight conjured up by
her 'precarious' installation works, like a chair looking as if it has
just sunk to the floor and objects hung on the wall as if they
are just able to stay that way, transformed the space into an
absolute source of energy - the aura.
 In Continuous, Anna Maria Maiolino, an avant-garde who is not
afraid of being discussed in the contemporary art history of Bra-
zil, presents her site-specific giant installation work and media
works she has been working on for the last thirty years. Thou-
sands of kilograms of her frequently preferred material of clay
are rendered into shapes before rendering in the kiln. Hundreds
of these clay pieces represent everyday life events, personal
matters, society, etc, and are installed in the exhibition space.
The multitude of objects of identical shapes, which are each
bestowed with different meanings, makes up an impressive st-
ructure. These lumps of clay begin to bear cracks as time goes
by, drying them up. The original shape finally ceases to exist
and such a process speaks for the futility of creation.


Angela de la Cruz: After
Camden Arts Centre
1 April – 30 May 2010
Installation view
Photo credit Andy Keate
Courtesy the artist and Camden Arts Centre

Angela de la Cruz: After
Camden Arts Centre
1 April – 30 May 2010
Installation view
Photo credit Andy Keate
Courtesy the artist and Camden Arts Centre

Angela de la Cruz: After
Camden Arts Centre
1 April – 30 May 2010
Installation view
Photo credit Andy Keate
Courtesy the artist and Camden Arts Centre

Anna Maria Maiolino: Continuous
Camden Arts Centre
1 April – 30 May 2010
Installation view
Continuous, 2010
Photo credit Andy Keate
Courtesy the artist and Camden Arts Centre

Anna Maria Maiolino: Continuous
Camden Arts Centre
1 April – 30 May 2010
Installation view
Continuous, 2010
Photo credit Andy Keate
Courtesy the artist and Camden Arts Centre