CAMPLE LINE is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Brazilian artist Tonico Lemos Auad this autumn. It is the first solo presentation of Tonico’s work in Scotland.
In his work, Tonico explores physical manifestations of belief, specifically looking at the personal or cultural significance afforded objects in everyday life. Drawing on a wide range of materials and objects and often encompassing notions of architecture and landscape, Tonico’s unique way of working subverts traditional techniques associated with craft such as embroidery, woodcarving and stonemasonry.
The exhibition brings together six new sculptural works made using reclaimed wooden beams and six new textiles, and constitutes a powerful and poetic meditation on two of Tonico’s most characteristic materials. Tonico has placed this new body of work across two levels at Cample, with a new large-scale sculptural installation placed upstairs in direct material dialogue with the architectural features of the space. The building’s original use as a row of millworkers’ cottages within the former Cample Mill complex and subsequent history of repurposing and reuse provides a compelling ground for this body of w
Tonico Lemos Auad
In his sculpture, drawing, photography and installations, Tonico Lemos Auad uses a wide range of materials to depict the transience of life through works that are often site-specific and impermanent in nature. His works reflect his particular interest in the natural environment and ways in which organic and everyday materials affect cultural behaviour.
Solo and group exhibitions of his work have been presented at Sharjah Biennial 13 (); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK (); Drawing Room, London (); Santa Barbara Museum of Art, US (); Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (); Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan () and Museu de Artes e Ofícios, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, among others. Lemos Auad’s works can be found in the collections of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York; San Diego Museum of Art, US; The West Collection, Oaks, US; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Instituto Cultural Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, US and Tate Collection, London.
A graduate of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo (), he was also a Research Associate at Goldsmiths College, Un
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Tonico Lemos Auad, Stephen Friedman Gallery, UK, Mayfair
Tonico Lemos Auad, De La Warr Pavilion, UK, Bexhill-on-Sea
Tonico Lemos Auad: Biblioteca , CRG Gallery, USA, Lower East Side
Tonico Lemos Auad, Galeria Luisa Strina, Brazil, Sao Paulo
Tonico Lemos Auad, Stephen Friedman Gallery, UK, Mayfair
Tonico Lemos Auad, Stephen Friedman Gallery, UK, Mayfair
Tonico Lemos Auad, CRG Gallery, USA, Lower East Side
Selected Group Exhibitions
Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates, Sharjah
Tudo Joia, Bergamin & Gomide, Brazil, Sao Paulo
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, UK, Mayfair
Another Part of the New World, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka Street, Russia, Moscow
3am: Wonder, paranoia and the restless night, The Exchange, UK, Penzance
Warp & Woof, The Hole, USA, Soho
Eu represento os artistas, Revisited, Galeria Luisa Strina, Brazil, Sao Paulo
Drawing Biennial , Drawing Room, UK, London
Site: Place of Memories, Spaces with Potential, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, Hiroshima
Labour and Wait, Santa Barbara Museum o
Tonico Lemos Auad
Tonico Lemos Auad was born in in Belém, Brazil. He now lives and works in London, UK.
Auad explores physical manifestations of belief, specifically looking at the personal or cultural significance afforded objects in everyday life. Often encompassing notions of architecture and landscape, Auad’s unique way of working subverts traditional techniques associated with craft such as embroidery, woodcarving and stonemasonry.
Jane Won, former Head of Exhibitions at De La Warr Pavilion, writes that Auad’s works “are instantly appealing to many for their tactility and for the intense labour that is evidently involved in creating them. Close observation of the works is rewarded by finding intricate and delicate details. Go one step further and one becomes aware of their poetic associations enhanced by the considered space they are placed in – the result of the artist’s process of thinking through materials.”
In recent years, different modes of textile production such as knitting, crochet, needle work and weaving have featured in Auad’s practice. George Vasey, Curator at Wellcome Collection, London, writes that the arti
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