Cecilia Biagini: Agua Viva

Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present Cecilia Biagini’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery featuring recent works in painting and sculpture. Agua Viva opens to the public with a reception on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Cecilia Biagini and Iloa Biagini-Rosenbaum will perform during the opening improvised pieces with sounds and movements inspired and in response to the works in the exhibition.

Working within the borders of geometry, Biagini explores the properties and relations between abstraction and construction, appearance and disappearance, lines and surfaces, as well as form and structure. “Aguaviva” is the Spanish term for jellyfish and the literal translation for “water alive.” Biagini draws inspiration from the movement of the body’s rhythmic contractions while underwater. Utilizing a bold sense of color and line she juxtaposes chaos and order. Biagini states she “cannot avoid the nature of improvising with tools, as she creates a system that allows [her] to work beyond [her] expectations.”

Her paintings depict transparencies, curvilinear structures, and visible impressions, in dialogue with wall reliefs. Biagini’s sculpture and sound works are constructed with the repetition of one element and the transformation that occur within the process. She maintains the value of innocence and exploration in her exhibition Agua Viva.

Cecilia Biagini currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received the Photography Critics Award from the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC, 1989) and was a recipient of the Guillermo Kuitca Scholarship in 1994, and then again in 1997 when her work was shortlisted for the Braque Award and the Gunther Award in Buenos Aires Argentina. In 1998 she moved to New York, where she co-founded the exhibition space The Hogar Collection, in Brooklyn. Biagini is currently featured as part of MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s Studio Visit, a virtual presentation of artists’ studios. Her work is included in many collections including MACBA Museum collection, Buenos Aires; The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; The New York Public Library, New York and Ministerio de Educación de la Nación Argentina

Founded in 2004 and located in the historic Olmos Park District of San Antonio, Ruiz-Healy Art specializes in contemporary art with an emphasis on Latinx, Latin American, and Texas-based artists. To request high-resolution images and more information about the exhibition, please contact the gallery at [email protected] or 210-804-2219. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM and by appointment.

Cecilia Biagini: Agua Viva will be on view through March 16, 2019.