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At this year’s Edinburgh Festival, exclusive furniture retailer, DesignShop UK, is celebrating contemporary Brazilian art and design, and is delighted to showcase a unique collaboration of two of Brazil’s finest artistic exports, designers Humberto and Fernando Campana and artist Glauce Cerveira.
Brazilian-born Glauce Cerveira has added a strident vision to the London art scene. Whether it is in painting, drawing or digital art, she turns concepts into fruition with unprecedented visual constructs.
The new paintings tackle the powerful impact of fashion on our lives; our desperate need to be accepted, wanted and to feel special. In Cerveira’s canvasses, fashion itself is being paraded. Their seductive surfaces act both as a celebration of image making and as a springboard for the questioning of contemporary behaviour. ‘I want to depict the role of the persona in front of the self and how much of it (the self) survives the compromises we make’.
Glauce plays with notions of identity, ownership and the value of art itself. In her series of drawings entitled Anti-Art Pets, she uses signature as line, objectifying the pet-owner relationship while subverting the act of drawing and seeing. Her digital work continues to question the world of appearances, as in “New Look”, which portrays a nun as a fashion icon. In her latest limited edition prints, entitled “Finger Fairies”, she iconises tiny ordinary objects, like paper clips and safety pins, turning the throwaway into ultimate heroes.
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