Luna Scapes

Uniting the sacred, the natural and the ancient Paris-born Luna Paiva creates whimsical objects evoking primordial rock formations and reimagines classic furniture as part of a practice straddling sculpture, installation and photography

After gilding many pieces, the artist more recently worked in bronze or brass hand-finished in a black patina for a series of four designs – the Ondulating chair, table and triangles, which seem on the verge of collapse, and the Totem triangles pointing skywards for realms beyond our own. She riffs on mountains too, gilding them or creating them in clay

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Clay Mountain
LUNA PAIVA Studio
Barcelona, Spain

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LUNA PAIVA

BORN PARIS, 1980

A SCULPTOR, PHOTOGRAPHER AND DESIGNER BASED IN BARCELONA, SPAIN, Paiva gilds objects that were not born to be art, but had a nude life of their own. Her subjects—mounted rocks, succulent plants and cacti—are AT ONCE familiar and ALIEN, LIKE species from UNKNOWN realms. Like us, they are inhabitants of creation shaped by time. Playing with the the sacred layers of fetish present in contemporary art, her objects speak of life that preexisted the human eye, and of ancient traditions where casting gold embodied a sacred anima. In Paiva’s words, her sculptures are “Ready-mades of nature gilded for profane adoration”

BORN IN PARIS, PAIVA STUDIED Art History and Archeology A La Sorbonne and FILM AT NYU. her work IS IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART BUENOS AIRES AND has been shown in exhibitions in Latin America, Europe and the United States

 

Artist’s programs
Laboratorio de cine Di Tella-Rejtman UTDT 2011 and taller Eduardo Stupía UTDT 2016

Art fairs
Art Basel Miami Beach, PAD London, PAD Genève, PAD Paris, SP Arte Sao Paulo Art Fair, Miart Milano, ARCO Madrid, Buenos Aires Photo, ArteBA, Pinta New York, Pinta London,

SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
NOVA FOTO ARGENTINA, MASP, SAO PAULO
CALIPSO, MIAU MIAU GALLERY, BUENOS AIRES

2010
VIDA DE DIVA , CCR, BUENOS AIRES
THE MAGIC CARPET, THE CRYPT GALLERY, LONDON
WOMEN ARTISTS, FRANKFURT ART FAIR

2011
ZOOM, MARLBOROUGH GALLERY, MADRID
ARTISTES PAR ARTISTES, MAISON ARGENTINE, PARIS
MACHETE: ANUARIO DE ARTISTAS CONTEMPORÁNEOS, MALBA, BUENOS AIRES

2012
PARAGUAY RAPÉ, CCR, BUENOS AIRES
NEW TENDENCIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION MAMBA MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO DE BUENOS AIRES
PERFORMING THE BODY, I. KAMM GALLERY, ZURICH

2013
DIORAMA HUMBOLDT, ARTIST WINDOW, HERMÈS BUENOS AIRES
JUNGLE DIORAMA , CENTURION ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

2014
LATIN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, I. KAMM GALLERY, ZURICH
LUCK PLANT, LUCIANA BRITO GALLERY AT ESPASSO, NEW YORK

2015
CONO SUR, XIPPAS GALLERY, PDE
HERMETIC MEMORIES, SOLO SHOW AT SLY ZMUD GALLERY, BUENOS AIRES
HUMAN NATURE, CHAMBER GALLERY, NEW YORK

2016
MIX, XIPPAS GALLERY, PDE
ORIGEN FUTURO, SOLO SHOW AT GALERÍA NOGUERAS BLANCHARD, BARCELONA
UN DESIERTO EN EL JARDÍN, ARTIST WINDOW, HERMÈS BARCELONA

2017
TRANSFORMER, SOLO SHOW AT SLY ZMUD GALLERY, BUENOS AIRES
LUNA PAIVA, PALAU DE CASAVELLS, SPAIN

2018
DEMOCRACIA EN OBRA, CCK, BUENOS AIRES
AGAVE, PALAU DE CASAVELLS, SPAIN
VASES, VALERY DEMURE GALLERY, PAD LONDON
A MATTER OF TIME, FAENA FESTIVAL, ART BASEL MIAMI

2019
TOTEM, VALERY DEMURE GALLERY PAD GENÈVE
PLANTS, VALERY DEMURE GALLERY PAD PARIS
INCLUSIVE, EL GRAN VIDRIO, CÓRDOBA
A MATTER OF TIME, PLAZA SEEBER, SEMANA DEL ARTE BUENOS AIRES

BENEFIT AUCTIONS
SECOND MUESTRA Y SUBASTA AMIA DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO ARGENTINO, 2009
ASTA DI FOTOGRAFÍA CONTEMPORÁNEA 4a EDIZIONE MILÁN 2009
CHRISTIE’S ARSEP PARIS 2005
SUBASTA EMA ESCLEROSIS MULTIPLE ARGENTINA, 2012
ART TECHO MIAMI 2013
OUTER SEED SHADOW AUCTION, PADDLE8 NEW YORK 2014
REACHING U, NEW YORK, 2016
ANÓNIMO, PADDLE 8 / ART BASEL, MIAMI BEACH 2018
GERMINARE, BUENOS AIRES 2018

BOOKS
FICTIONS, ASUNTO IMPRESO 2008
MACHETE: CONTEMPORARY ART, ARTIST PORTRAITS, 2010
AMERICAN ABC, PARIPÉ BOOKS 2018

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