ARC Exhibition: Pablo Gimenez Zapiola's "Meaning in Motion" July 21, 2011

Spacetaker ARC Exhibition: "Meaning In Motion" by Pablo Gimenez Zapiola
 
July 15 – August 13, 2011
 
Opening Reception: Friday, July 15, 7 – 10 p.m.
 
Second Saturday Open Studios: Saturday, August 13, 2 – 5 p.m.
 
Spacetaker is excited to host Meaning in Motion, a solo exhibition by Houston artist Pablo Gimenez Zapiola, as part of our ARC Exhibition Series. Through large-scale projections of words, literary passages and poems onto moving trains as well as from a moving car onto the environment (houses, trees, buildings, fences, freeways, etc.), Gimenez Zapiola investigates how different environments and contexts affect the projected words, and how the projected words affect the environments. Capturing each projection on video and photography, the long exposure used results in transparency, multiplicity, and fragmentation of the words as they adopt the fast changing shapes of the projected surfaces. Meaning in Motion is an art project that proposes an open-ended dialogue between image and viewer through motion, language, color, and form. The exhibition will feature video, still photos and animations from some of the most interesting projections the artist has captured over the past two years.
 
Meaning in Motion will open with a public reception on Friday, July 15 from 7 to 10 p.m. during which guests may witness Gimenez Zapiola’s live “performance” of projections onto the passing trains on the tracks next to Spacetaker’s gallery in Winter Street Studios. In conjunction with this exhibit, the artist will host a series of live projection performances where the public is invited to come out and wait for trains to pass by the studio to see the artist’s work in action. Gimenez Zapiola’s live projection performances are made possible by an Individual Artist Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance. The exhibition will be on view at Spacetaker’s ARC Gallery through August 13, 2011 and is free and open to the public.
 
Live train projection performances will take place on:


Friday, July 15 from 8:45 – 10:45pm

Thursday, July 21 from 8:45 – 10:45pm

Wednesday, July 27 from 8:45 – 10:45pm

Saturday, August 6 from 8:45 – 10:45pm

Friday, August 12 from 8:45 – 10:45pm
 
About the Artist:
Early in his life, Pablo Gimenez Zapiola developed a particular interest in art and aesthetics, which led him to work with diverse visual expression techniques to develop his ideas. He learned composition and the subtlety and richness of color through painting. Photography allowed him to experiment in the darkroom and to capture reality in a variety of ways. Finally, architecture gave him the knowledge of function and the skills for assemblage and 3D visualization. After completing his degree in architecture, he gained working experience that led him toward graphic design. This combination of backgrounds led him to understand art as a way of enhancing meaning in life and at the same time provided him a broader spectrum of resources to draw from along with greater freedom to create. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Argentina (Espacio Buenos Aires, Fundación Hampatu), and the US (Schneider Gallery - Chicago, LeHigh University Art Galleries - Pennsylvania, De Santos Gallery, Labotanica, Art Crawl, Project Row Houses , Bering & James, DiverseWorks, Talento Bilingüe - Houston, ArtHouse – Austin), as well as featured on art and photography blogs, and is part of private collections from Argentina, UK and the US. Born in Argentina, he now lives and works in Houston, TX. Gimenez Zapiola has been named one of the Ten Discoveries of Fotofest Meeting Place 2010 and was awarded an Individual Artist Grant 2011 from the Houston Arts Alliance. Visit his websites and Facebook page:


http://www.pablogimenezzapiola.com

http://www.vimeo.com/bandart

http://www.facebook.com/bandart 

Pablo Gimenez Zapiola is a recipient of an individual Artist Grant Award. This grant is funded by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
Spacetaker business hours are 10AM - 6PM, however to ensure that the gallery is open, please call 713.868.1839 to make an appointment to view the exhibition.

Official Website: http://spacetaker.org