Bloc Projects is currently waiting to hear if it will receive funding in 2009. For the past few months, without funding, we have been able to keep the company running, and carry on supporting artists and exhibitions as much as possible in the current funding climate. This has been with much thanks to the core team and the support of exhibiting artists, studio holders, volunteers, Sheffield Hallam University and Bloc’s committed audience – so thank you for all your support! The gallery is currently available for hire until late February - please email us for prices.
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Bloc Space is pleased to host:
Mário Vitória: Sweet Slaves
Preview Event Tuesday 16 December from 6 – 8pm
Mário Vitória is a Portuguese artist who has been developing a new body of work at Bloc Studios for four months. ‘Sweet Slaves’ is an exhibition of his new work, and marks the end of his first practise period in the UK and here in Sheffield.
Vitória´s graphic works reflects the need to question reality. The destruction of the individual by the representation of an inhuman and metamorphosed man machine or animal in a desperate fight against the adversities, however doomed, without any further chance, to a tragic end, as fatidic as the poet Sá-Carneiro’s.
The Drawing is the questioning space, the restless critic to, and about History. Under the apparent heroic representation of the soldier, as glorious image of violence, hides the vision of a stubborn man, a fragmented and self-destroyer.
http://mariovitoria.wordpress.com
Biography
Mário Vitória was born in Coimbra in 1983, lives and works in Sheffield (England). His academic graduation was accompanied by intermediated studies in Lyon (France) and Bologna (Italy). He graduated from the University of Fine Arts of the University of Oporto where now he is now studying for a Master’s degree in Practice and Theory of Drawing. Recent individual exhibitions: Minimal Gallery (Doing Friends Between Animals, Porto 2007), Gallery of Museum Nogueira da Silva (New Names for Old Things, Braga 2008), and in the Nuno Sacramento Gallery (The Shepherd of Flocks, Aveiro 2008).
