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November 2, 2006- December 9, 2006
Reception: November 2, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Florencio Gelabert
Magnan Emrich Contemporary
505 W 28th St Florencio Gelabert Portable Landscape (detail) (2006) |  Florencio Gelabert Portable Landscape (2006) |  Florencio Gelabert Shape of My Father (2006) |
 Florencio Gelabert Landscape View I (2006) |
Working with a diverse selection of synthetic materials such as foam, plastic models, artificial grass and with wood and furniture, Gelabert creates minimal, abstract versions of nature (mountains, trees and flowers), exploring with ideas of fantasy versus reality, construction and deconstruction. Gelabert has stated that, “communication between people, art and the natural environment is my primary goal… my art represents Man's ongoing destruction and reconstruction of the natural environment; the tree symbolizes that reality”.
The exhibition consists of various landscapes in the form of sculptures and installation such as “Portable Landscapes” and “Mountain Views, Landscape Views 1 and 2”. In “Portable Landscapes,” Gelabert presents a tree in a very abstract way using wood, foam and artificial grass. Although he would never cut down a tree, he presents the work in such as way as to raise the question of its origins. Further blurring the line, resin tree trunks sit atop a wood table – reiterating the reconstruction of materials. The wood table is derived from a tree yet, as a reconstructed element, it becomes a tree in which different sections of landscapes have been recreated in a garden with mini-flowers and petals. “My sculptures alter the intrinsic value of the definition of objects in such a way as to evoke new interpretations of conceptual alchemy forcing the audience to reevaluate the relationship between organic elements and technology. I am fascinated by creating sculpture and site-specific works relating to people and their environment, and in particular, power, destruction and violence as global problems of a new age.”
Florencio Gelabert was born in Havana, Cuba . He received his BA from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana in 1981. Gelabert is scheduled to have a solo exhibition at The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU, Miami in 2008. He has exhibited in museums and galleries in Spain, Sweden, Venezuela and Miami. Gelabert received the New York Foundation of Arts/CAF Award and the Reed Foundation Fellowship in 2005 as well as residencies at the Chashama Studio in New York and the Vermont Studio Center in 2006. His work is in numerous collections including The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum at FIU, Miami; Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; and the Nassau County Museum, Long Island. He recently received two public commissions one from Miami Dade College, the other from West Harlem Art Fund. Gelabert currently lives and works in New York.
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