Azucena Vieites. Tableau vivant
March 19 – July 22, 2013
In Tableau vivant, Azucena Vieites lays out a series of silkscreen prints based on pre-existing images, along with a series of drawings by the artist that were colored in by the participants in Coloring Book, a children’s workshop held prior to the opening of the exhibition. Also included are a video piece and a series of projections, the artist’s first incursion in this field, which enter into a dialogue with the other two series. Seen here to be of major importance in her production are multiplicity, fragmentation and repetition as means of breaking away from the absolute image and linear narrative forms, and central too is the ephemeral and processual nature of her work. The title, Tableau vivant, alludes to painting, to certain forms of dance, and to an idea of “frozen” representation in a setting or framework where a group of characters pose, recreate, simulate an event or a scene. Other aspects of such a work include the idea of entertainment, that of mixture, and the construction of a visual iconography where pleasure, excess and fantasy are implicit. The artist is interested in the tableau vivant as a way of acting and thinking that relates back to a technique used by filmmakers like Ulrike Ottinger, whose work she acknowledges.
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Azucena Vieites. De la serie Tableau vivant, 2013

Azucena Vieites. De la serie Tableau vivant, 2013

Azucena Vieites. De la serie Tableau vivant, 2013

Azucena Vieites. De la serie Tableau vivant, 2013

Azucena Vieites. De la serie Tableau vivant, 2013

Azucena Vieites. De la serie Coloring Book, 2013

Azucena Vieites. De la serie Tableau vivant, 2013

Azucena Vieites. De la serie Tableau vivant, 2013

Azucena Vieites. De la serie Tableau vivant, 2013

Azucena Vieites. De la serie Tableau vivant, 2013