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Henrique Oliveira @ Galerie Vallois

PHOTOGRAPHY /

All images
courtesy,
Galerie
GP & N
Vallois,
Paris


Installation
views
&
selected
works,
© Aurélien
Mole


Portrait,
Stuart
Watson


Text,
Léa Chauvel-Lévy

CREDITS /

November 19, 2015

2-TIMES · Art
Henrique Oliveira, 
'Fissure' 


Henrique's
approach:
Oliveira invents
'oneiric' forms
infiltrated with
life, in the
same way a
demiurge
would bring
to life, from
the real and
ex-nihilo, a
universe with
fantasised
contours.

Title reference: 
'Fissure' relates
to 3D works or 
drawings on
paper, made up
of protuberances
and growths,
which are an
implicit portrait
of the demographic
context in which
Oliveira grew up. 

The idea:
Using scrap 
objects, natural 
elements, and 
deprived materials,
Oliveira's creations 
maintain a close 
relation with 
'Arte Povera' – 
although the 
artist himself 
admits that the 
poor wood is 
close to the 
theoretical 
statement 
made by this 
movement, 
the use of 
recovered 
materials is 
more a way 
to force the 
boundaries of 
contemporary 
sculpture and 
its relationship 
to space. 

On view at: 
Galerie
Georges-Philippe 
& Nathalie Vallois

— 
36 Rue de Seine, 
75006 Paris, France. 

Closes: 
November 28, 2015.