Sandra Pani presents “My Intangible Self”
at the Cultural Institute of México in Miami
For immediate distribution: March 14th 2016
The Cultural Institute of Mexico is scheduled to open next Thursday, March 17th, 2016 at 6 p.m. “My Intangible Self” a collection of select works from Mexican artist Sandra Pani. The artist and Consul General José Antonio Zabalgoitia will be opening the exhibition.
The images expressed in “My Intangible Self” emerge out of the search for the human being´s essence. It is through visual metaphor that the layers of the human complexity are represented. The images, a multiplicity of veils, are created by overlapping drawings made both on transparent paper and on cloth. Besides the visual experience, this exhibition includes Cantus II form composer Manuel Sosa, a meditative sound piece created specifically for the exhibition, with the purpose of adding layers through words and sounds.
The artist describes this exhibition: “My images are a living actualization of my psychic process. As my work has evolved, a theme of stabilization has emerged wherein which I experience (relative) expectation that integration will follow fragmentation. They are, perhaps, an attempt to imprint who I am in images.”
Karen Cordero, curator, adds: “the use of overlaid veils invites us to decipher their interrelations and, at the same time, prevents us from a definite view, opening the space for a variety of interpretations that construct a dialogue between the painter´s identity and the viewers´”.
Sanda Pani was born in Mexico City in 1964. She studied drawing and painting in Perla Krauze and Teresa Cito´s workshop, as well as etching with artist Eugenia Marcos in Mexico City. Later, she pursued Art Studies at the Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy, and in the Chelsea School of Art in London, England.
Her works have been exhibited in diverse countries such as United States, Mexico, Italy and England. Some of her individual exhibitions include: “De ser árbol” (2013) at Tulane University in New Orleans, “Dualidad y transformación” (2009) at the Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, and “Subsistir” (1993) at the University Museum of El Chopo, also in Mexico City.
In 2012 the Mexican National Council for the Arts (CONACULTA) published a book of her paintings called “Bisturí Óptico”.
“My Intangible Self” will run through May 17th.