The cyclical nature of Structures and Fragments leads us through a journey of understanding the metamorphosis of the form and its function. This journey questions our perception of real and abstract, of the natural order – what came first, the structure or the fragment, and of what really stands before us. Questions suggest, perplex, and enlighten. The answers are ultimately found within us, guided by what stands before us. This body of work powerfully pushes and pulls these identities, these notions, through paradoxically simple and complex paintings and installations.
Quirarte & Ornelas take us one step further, sharing the entire creative process by exhibiting both paintings and installations for the first time. The momentum and dynamic force shines through the realization of the conceptual abstraction and actual works existing, playing, and speaking together. This dialogue is part of the whole. Part fragmented and part structured, but always whole. Completeness combines and connects fluidly, defining the paintings and installations simultaneously as Structure and Fragment.
The structure stands strong; bridging the figurative into the literal, presenting on two-dimensional fields with three dimensional execution. The actualization of the paintings and installations coexist – the final alongside the inspiration, respectively. We simultaneously experience the muse and how the works came to be, a process usually developed and shown only in the studio.
Quirarte & Ornelas make everyday tools the focus and give these traditional materials deeper meaning. The construction and deconstruction of the works are cyclical; working together in both structured and fragmented fashions. The process is the presentation and the structure is the fragment – the cycle is complete.
This journey challenges our structured and fragmented perceptions, suggesting and inviting us into a total awareness of the ordinary through extraordinary art.
Education
Anabel Quirarte
2004
Scholarship Baden-Württemberg National Academy of Arts Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Degree in Plastic Arts in the ENPEG “La Esmeralda”, Mexico City, Mexico
1999
Professional Initiation in Plastic Arts [Technical carrier], School forf Artistic Intiation #1, 1NBA, Mexico City, Mexico
Jorge Ornelas
2004
Scholorship Baden-Württemberg National Academy of Arts Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Visual Art Carrier at ENPEG “La Esmeralda”, Mexico City, Mexico
1998
Popular Graphics Studio, Mexico City, Mexico
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Structure and Fragments, ONE AND J. GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
2011
Estructura y Fragmentos, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico
Destruir y Ensamblar, Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
2009
Indoor Constryctions and Landscape Alterations, ONE AND J. GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
2008
Acciones y objetos modificados, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico
Public Inscape/Private Landscape, Galeria Ramis Barquet, NY, USA
2007
Cronicas de transito y espacios habitables, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
2005
Anabel Quirarte/Jorge Ornelas, Galeria Zlotos, Frankfurt, Germany
2004
Casa Portatil/Tragbares Haus, Poly Gallery, Karlsruhe, Garmany
Anabel Quirarte und Jorge Ornelas, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2011
TINA B.By The Water, TINA B.Festival 2011, (A)void Gallery, Prague
Re Cover, Casa del Lago, Mexico City,Mexico
Propuesta 25, Coahuila Art Fesival 2011., Museum of the Palace, Saltillo/Iberoamerican University Gallery, Torreon, Mexico
2010
Creacion en movimiento,FONCA, Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City, Mexico
2009
Luna nua expresion artistica Prize, National Auditorium, Mexico City, Mexico
2008
Art Field Autodromo, Best Buddies Internacional Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
Experimentelle 15, Schloss Randegg, Randegg, Germany
New Yorker Passport to the Arts, NY, USA
XIV Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial, Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Fragmentation, a Reinterpretation of the Contemporary World, Enrique Guerrero Gallery and Mexico’s Exterior Relations Secretary, Itinerant show through South-eastern Asia
2007
Hold the Line, Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station Gallery, Karlsruhe,Garmany
Paisaje Blanco, Hábita Hotel, Mexico City, Mexico
Creación en movimiento, Jovenes Creadores FONCA, Francisco Cossio Museum, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
2006
Leinzell Open, Schloss Leinzell, Leinzell, Garmany
KIK_LA, SHR Klinikum Karlsbad, Karlsruhe,Garmany
XIII Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial, Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City,Mexico
SIVAM Award 2006, Internatioinal Society of Mexican Art Values, Mexico City,Mexico
Kunstler der Galerie / Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Zlotos, Frankfurt
2005
Art Frankfurt 2005-Avant Garde, Galerie Zlotos, Frankfurt, Germany
Esto no es una canción de amor, Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
Killing me softly, Galería Ramis Barquet, NY, USA
Gestalten, Galerie Zlotos, Frankfurt, Germany
Presence of Mexico, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY, USA
Awards
2009
1st place, Luna, una expresion artistica Prize, National Auditorium, Mexico City, Mexico
2007
Pepsi Light Art Collection 2007, Mexico City, Mexico
2006
Honorable Mention, “XIII Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial”, Mexico City, Mexico
Jovenes creadores FONCA (grant) 2006-2007, painting, Mexico
2004
Scholarship holders of the interchange program granted by the State of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany in the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Karlsruhe National Academy of Arts Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Collections
Madeira Foundation Collection, Portugal
KGAL Collection, Munich, Germany
Wurth Museum Collection, germany
National Economic Culture Fund, Mexico
University Contemporary Art Museum (MUAC) Collection, Mexico