Fototeca de Cuba, Havana
January 17—February 16, 2020
exhibition invite
exhibition invite
Leonardo Kossoy es artista invitado a exponer en la Fototeca de Cuba y participa de las celebraciones
que no se puede reconocer y vivenciar de forma objetiva solamente, sino envuelta en amplia margen de subjetividad. Su obra no sera una imagen espejada, sino un espejo en el cual el observador pueda – una plena zambullida para desbravar lo conocido y lo desconocido de su existencia.
la obra Cayendo en el Infierno de la Imagen, donde imagenes en movimiento, turbias, distorcidas oscilan El exceso y la intensidad de las imagenes ocupan la mente de su creador, sumergido principalmente en Waterscapes nos revela paisajes e interferencias acusticas aisladas en espacios urbanos.
Inventario del Mundo es un eximio compendio de temas, formas, colores, luces. Los grupos individuales de esa obra, con nombres como Fuente de Luz, Perspectivas, Escalerasen el interior de un atomo – metafora del inventario que la persona hace de su propio mundo.
Concluimos la muestra con la obra Only You, dirigida y concebida por Leonardo Kossoy, con dos angustias, ansiedades, sensibilidad y ambiciones del trato humano compartido en un local aislado y sin mas fronteras que no sean las existenciales.
—Tereza de Arruda , curadora
On the commemorations of the 500th anniversary of Havana, Leonardo Kossoy shows his photography as a guest artist in Fototeca de Cuba (Photography Gallery of Cuba).
Kossoy’s artistic sensibility and notion pushes back the boundaries of reality: rather than a purely objective process, the recognition and lived experience of reality involves a wide margin of subjectivity. Sooner than comprising mirror images, his oeuvre is a mirror in which viewers continuously recognize themselves by feeling, rather than just seeing. From behind his photo or video lens, Kossoy has been honing his vision like a traveling artist looking for new territories to be explored by his creative work, his unconscious and his comprehension – a deep plunge into his existence, unveiling its knowns and unknowns.
This exhibition features four distinct series from various periods of Kossoy’s artistic career, two of them shown here for the first time. Upon entering the gallery, visitors come face-to-face with Caindo no Inferno da Imagem [Falling into Imagery Inferno] with its shifting, hazy and distorted images ranging from abstract to figurative. They guide visitors along a narrative never seen in Kossoy’s oeuvre, a reflection on the tyranny of images to which artists are bound. The excess and intensity of images take over the mind of their creator immersed, particularly, in the commitment of transposing them to viewers legibly, while remaining true to artistic authenticity.
Across the way, Waterscapes features isolated waterscapes and interventions in urban spaces, in which the transparency, motion, depth and surface of water are shown as both seductive and crucial attributes. Even the represented absence of water in a neglected pool, or the body of water reddened by a predator’s action reveal its existence enhanced in Kossoy’s inventory.
Inventorio do Mundo [World Inventory] is an excellent compendium of themes, shapes, colors and lights. The individual groups within this work have been titled Fonte de Luz (Light Source), Perspectivas (Perspectives) and Escadas (Stairs). The outcome is a tangle of interconnected bits of data that Kossoy likens to energized particles such as those inside atoms – a metaphor for the way people compile inventories of their own worlds.
The exhibition ends with Only You, designed and directed by Leonardo Kossoy in which two protagonists transpose and transgress the barriers of the unconscious. In their performance, the couple reveals the angsts, anxieties, sensibilities and ambitions of human relationships shared in a secluded place with no boundaries – other than existential ones.
—Tereza de Arruda, curator
Fototeca de Cuba, Havana [website]
Mercaderes 307, La Plaza Vieja, La Havana, Cuba
Exhibition period: January 17—February 16, 2020