Frank Taal Galerie proudly presents Isabelle Borges in the Cutting Edge program of Art on Paper 2024.
We look forward to welcoming you to Art on Paper! Booth number 57.
At Art on Paper Amsterdam, approximately 50 contemporary galleries and 16 art dealers concentrate on works of art on, from, or with paper. The fair occurs in the industrial-monumental Gashouder and Transformatorhuis at Westergas in Amsterdam.
ISABELLE BORGES
“One day my eyes got caught by a ‘drawing’ - created by the broken branches of water plants standing in the middle of a lake (...)" (Isabelle Borges).
Isabelle Borges finds inspiration for her recent series of abstract paintings, collages, and installations in her photographic studies of nature. Based on the strategy of manifold foldings, reflections, and rotations of the internal forms, the artist creates „moving surfaces" that provide the framework for a condensed new pictorial space. In the process, her ‘Boxes’ are actual three-dimensional objects layered from different colored cardboard, whose luminous colors and mirrored surfaces open up an invisible space to the viewer. The reference to the Neo-Concretists from Brazil cannot be overlooked nor to the representatives of the European and New York Schools of the I950 and I960s. Comparable to her role models, Borges uses the playful tension between construction and dynamics for poetic narratives and opens a place for individual moods and fantasies for the viewer.
Isabelle Borges was born in Salvador, Brazil, in 1966. Between 1985 and 1987, she studied Social Sciences at the University of Brasilia. Between 1988 and 1992, she lived in Rio de Janeiro, where she attended the Escola Visual do Parque Lage and had professors such as Beatriz Milhazes, Daniel Senise, and Charles Watson. In 1993, she immigrated to Germany, initially lived in Cologne, and worked as an assistant at the studio of Antonio Dias and the American artist Jack Ox, who was researching Kurt Schwitters, a German dadaist artist. The contact with Schwitters’ work had a strong influence on the work of Isabelle Borges, especially in her collage series. Between 1996 and 1997, he worked as assistant to Sigmar Polke. Studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf. At the end of 1997, she moved to Berlin, where she currently resides and works.