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Verge Center for the Arts and CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions are pleased to present Las Cosas que Pintan / Painting in an Expansive Field, a two-person exhibition curated by Aimee Friberg on view from April 9 through May 17 at Verge Center for the Arts in Sacramento. The exhibition features sound and video installation by Argentinian artist Juan Sorrentino and painting, video, and works on paper by San Francisco-based artist Miguel Arzabe. The works included in Las Cosas que Pintan / Painting in an Expansive Field take as their starting point a field of painting that has been thoroughly examined and expanded by numerous other artists since the advent of Modernism. Rather than attempting to push these boundaries further for the sake of ambition and innovation, Sorrentino and Arzabe investigate the existing landscape of the medium to look for space in which poetic gesture and thoughtful intention combine to reveal truthful contradictions of human experience. The artists’ sensibilities draw from diverse sources––ranging from Modernist painting and conceptual art to indigenous crafts such as weaving and storytelling––while resisting rigid boundaries and literal translations.
ABOUT MIGUEL ARZABE
Miguel Arzabe (b. 1975) is an artist based in Berkeley, California. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions globally, includingHors Pistes 2011 and 2012 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris; the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montréal, Canada; Carry On in Mexico City; Summer Drift at RM Projects in Auckland, New Zealand; Wood Anniversary at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, and in group exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Arzabe has participated in artist residency programs at organizations including the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Montalvo Art Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. His work is held in private and public collections around the world and was most recently featured in solo shows at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico and at CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions in San Francisco, California. Arzabe holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in Environmental Fluid Dynamics from Arizona State University, and an MFA from UC Berkeley. He is represented by CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions in San Francisco.
ABOUT JUAN SORRENTINO
Juan Sorrentino (b. 1978) is an artist, musician, and composer based in Córdoba, Argentina. He creates electronic, acoustic, multimedia concert works and installations. Sorrentino’s work has been presented in diverse venues across South America, the United States, and Europe. He has been the recipient of numerous awards via the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists; the Residence Prize of Bourges; Le Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC); the Goethe Institute of Córdoba; and the Ministerio de Cultural de España Reina Sofia, among others. Sorrentino has exhibited at Metronom (Modena), Espacio Marzana (Bilbao), Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), MARCO (Vigo), Nau Coclea (Girona), IMAGO (Buenos Aires), the Forum Cultural Guanajuato, and the Teatro Maria Grever (Léon), among others. His work is included in the collections of the Muséo del Arte Contemporáneo in Bahía Blanca; the Museo Genaro Pérez, the Emilio Caraffa Provincial Fine Arts Museum, and the Museo de Bellas Artes Evita Palacio Ferreyra in Córdoba; the ONCE Foundation in Spain; and private collections around the world. Sorrentino holds degrees from the Media Center d’Art y Disseny (MECAD) in Barcelona and the University of Córdoba (Argentina).
ABOUT CULT | AIMEE FRIBERG EXHIBITIONS
CULT is a contemporary art gallery in San Francisco that presents work by emerging and established artists from around the world. It was founded in November 2013 by curator and performance artist Aimee Friberg. CULT bridges formal, conceptual and process-based investigations, featuring works of a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, video/film, performance art and works on paper. Learn more at cultexhibitions.com.
(Header image: Miguel Arzabe, Paint Tube Close-Up #1, 2015, archival inkjet photo, 26" x 17.25", edition of 3)
Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
