Evi Vingerling with Julia da Mota and Sebastien Pauwels
Galería Fermay, Palma De Mallorca, ES
6 June, 2024 – 13 September, 2024

Galería Fermay is pleased to present Space In Between, a group show featuring the works of Julia da Mota, Sebastien Pauwels and Evi Vingerling.

Space In Between brings together three artistic practices whose approach to painting is build upon very specific notions of space. While Pauwels’ artistic practice essentially deals with the idea of constructing painting, Da Mota and Vingerling are concerned with notions such as the body, memory or architecture. Space In Between thinks of painting as a wildly experimental medium open to multiple approaches that not necessarily have to be restricted to the traditional formal categories; instead, we put forward the notion of the painterly which, in our opinion, seems to be a better equipped term to encompass the wide array of practices when it comes to the medium. Here we refer to meaningful and diverse pictorial processes build upon mark after mark that allows for a sort of forward motion where an entanglement of ideas crystallises.

The idea and the representation of space has been fundamental to the development of art since its very beginnings. From cave paintings to gothic altarpieces, gaining a momentum during the Renaissance with the invention of the geometric perspective, there has been so much experimentation around it, specially throughout the 19th and 20th centuries with avant-garde artists who reimagined it all. It is only normal, then, that painting has become a repository of very diverse ideas where artists apply their own logic. More specifically, when we talk about space applied to painting it might indeed refer to many things; from an actual illusory depiction of it, such as in traditional landscape painting, to a deconstructed view of it, as it might happen with a Cubist artwork, or an actual materialisation of it, like in the case of Lucio Fontanas’ Spazialismo, only to mention very few examples. Besides these formal concerns, however, there are also other approaches to space that refer to the realm of emotions, such is the case, for instance, of gesturalism as exemplified throughout the work of Abstract Expressionism, or the subtlety of optical illusions derived from Op Art and Kinetic Art, or the intimacy of the body as in the case of contemporary artists such as Lee Ufan or Juan Uslé. In painterly terms, then, the notion of space is above all an idea, an approach, that adapts to the conceptual strategies put forward by artists.