Catalogue Confrontações Poéticas, 2007
Prize Banco do Nordeste, Fortaleza, Brazil
Curator’s text: Solon Ribeiro
“ In Search of the Freedom of Music
Gabriela Maciel presents several objects made upon the constant action of knots over scaffolding net, material utilized in constructions under refurbishment (…) the artist transmutates the material from it’s previous identity, through a physical process she makes them desiring of a dialogue
Within the space that surrounds the artwork(…) the frontiers between drawing, sculpture, video, photography and performance are abolished (…)
sculptures like animal-machines contain a maximal potency, in search of the exterior, with a precise target, to move the spectator from it’s function (…) it’s part of this artist’s process to propose new visual, tactile and audible perceptions (…) in search of the freedom of music”
H Art, Art Journal, Belgium, May 2007
Publication in flamish, about PRESECE Gabriela Maciel’s solo exhibition
At Dagmar de Pooter Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.
Text by Inge Braeckman
“(…) Op de avond van galerievernissages in Antwerpen wijdde de Braziliaanse kunstennar Gabriela Maciel (º1977) de nieuwe ruimte in met een bijzoonder heftige performance. Op een pompende beat van elektronische muziek en tegen de achtergrond van videobeldeelden ging zee en berg blauwe wandsculptuur werd het resultat, vol knopen, ophopingen en draaiingen. Het gezicht ingespannen naar het einde toe steeds heftiger bewegend, maakte ze het gevecht zichtbaar waarin ze verwikkeld is bij het maken van haar sculpturen. Een lichamelijk bijzonder zwaar process dat maar bij de gratie van het stuwende ritme van de muziek tot een goed einde gebracht kan worden en dat fel contrasteert met de artificiele, technologische kant die de keuze van het (synthetische) material eveneens met zich mee brengt. Een aantal van de sculpturen die Maciel eerder al maakte zijn eveneens bij De Pooter te zien; het zijn tactiele, bijzonder esthetiche werken, letterlijk broken van energie die een relatie aangaan met de ruimte. Zijn de sculpturen van Maciel groot, bijna barok en vol emotie(…)”
GVA, Art Journal, Belgium, 2007
Publication in flamish, about PRESECE Gabriela Maciel’s solo exhibition
At Dagmar de Pooter Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.
Text by Pieter Geerts.
“In de ruimte op straatniveau toont Maciel een aantal sculpturen, die ze vervaardigt uit de netten die bij renovaties van gebouwen. Maciel vouwnt, draait en knoopt deze netten tot amorfe vormen die ze op de grond drappeert of aan muren en plafond hangt. Deel van het kunstwerk is het maken ervan, en Maciel legt het ontstaansproces vast op video. In die films wordt duidelijk dat ze zich laat inspieren door elektronische muziek bij de creaties van haar werken.”
Vogue, number 330, year 2006
Text: Juliana Pinheiro Mota
Photo: Marc Van Lengen
“New talent of fine arts in Brazil, Rio born artist Gabriela Maciel is conquering
the world with her installations (…) After Hélio Oiticica, Tunga, Beatriz Milhazes and Ernesto Neto. From the new artists, Gabriela Maciel, 28 years, is the name that people are talking about in Brazil and abroad, with recent shows in England, Spain, France, United States and Japan. (…) her work is in fact special. The result are sculptures, drawings, videos and installations of extreme plastic beauty. (…)”
Vogue, number 327, year 2005
Text: Antônia Leite Barbosa
“Speaking of…
(…) Gabriela Maciel (highlight of new generation’s artists) (…)”
17 / 07 / 2005
Text by Ben Davies
“Rio-born artist Gabriela Maciel also spun art from common fabrics at the booth of New York’s Praxis gallery. The artist twists and knots synthetic fibers into lively sculptural forms that dripped from the walls of the booth. The knotting together of the fibers is clearly also symbolic of the knotting together of human relationships, as in Duo (2005), in which two different colors of massed fabric grip each other with a combination of fierceness and affection (...) Puzzle, a construction of knots ingeniously constructed so that viewers could detach and put them back together as they liked to form different sculptures.”
Casa Vogue, number 242, year 2005
Text: Antônia Leite Barbosa
Photos: Rômulo Fialdini
“Galery-Office
An old house is transformed into the office of Thiago Bernardes and Paulo Jacobsen, that filled the space with first class artworks.
(…) predominantly sculptures and installations of contemporary art (…)
Always with quality artists”
The four pages publication shows artworks from Gabriela Maciel, Luiz Zerbini,
and Frans Krajcberg.
PAP Magazine, design issue number 15, May / July, 2005
4 pages publication of Gabriela Maciel’s artwork, exhibited in England. Magazine distributed in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, France, Germany
And UK.
Text content in publication by Gabriela Maciel:
“Rhythm of Fabric
Time and movement
the sculpture which asks to be touched
objects that seem to contain life
creatures
pulse and fluidity
the contradiction of a natural body, sometimes acting as a machine
knots
a colony
architecture
distance and spatial proximity
twisted
interwoven
oscillation
transcendent production of signs
intensified emotion
cut
connection
transformation
the turning point of a body in a potential center of movement
solidified action
one body made of several micro-bodies”
Shift Japan 2004
Publication about “Purifying Process”multimedia performance by Gabriela Maciel, in Japan.
Text and Photos : Tomoe Tsuda, from Think Garden
Translation: Naoko Fukushi
“The organic form of an object is made (…) guided by emotion of sound and rhythm (…) that energy is condensed into the work (…) something was certaintly born from it. It could be the object itself or strange abstract energy (…) it was a dreamlike occurrence to the extent that I had an illusion that the space was released from the stream of time and continued forever. Energy is circulated like this (…) I felt it was the proof of a natural principle.”
