Carin Dangot
b. São Paulo, Brazil. Lives and works in New York, NY.
Carin Kulb Dangot is an abstract painter and sculptor. She began her career as a food engineer and then a sought-after food designer for film and television before bringing her love of mixing, melding, and inventing new forms to the world of paint, color, volume, and mass. Dangot’s artwork emphasizes the physical properties of materials via experimentation and other intuitive processes. She is interested in paint materiality and plasticity on various surfaces–such as canvas, aluminum, and Mylar- 2D and3D. Dangot’s work has been exhibited in some New York City fine arts venues such as NY Live Arts, Christie’s, The Cluster Gallery, Deanna Evans Project, Governors Island (GIAF), Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, Soho20, and in Amherst, MA at Augusta Savage Gallery. In her home country, she has exhibited at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Casa Galeria in São Paulo. She is the 2012 recipient of the Leonard Rosenfeld Merit Scholarship and Lloyd Sherwood Grant for “outstanding work in non-objective art” from the Art Students League. The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) recently accepted her into its competitive Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program in 2020. She has been living and working in New York City since 2010.
Carin Klub Dangot
Nasceu em São Paulo, vive e trabalha em Nova York.
Carin Kulb Dangot é uma pintora e escultora abstrata. Começou sua carreira como engenheira de alimentos e depois como concorrida designer de alimentos para cinema e televisão. Daí trouxe seu amor por misturar, fundir e inventar novas formas para o mundo da tinta, cor, volume e massa. A arte de Dangot enfatiza as propriedades físicas dos materiais por meio de experimentação e outros processos intuitivos. Se interessa pela materialidade e plasticidade da pintura em várias superfícies – como tela, alumínio e acrílico- 2D e 3D. O trabalho de Dangot foi exibido em espaços de belas artes de Nova York como o NY Live Arts, Christie’s, The Cluster Gallery, Deanna Evans Project, Governors Island (GIAF), Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, Soho 20 e em Amherst, MA na Augusta Savage Gallery. Ela também expôs em seu país de origem no Museu Brasileiro de Escultura e na Casa Galeria em São Paulo. Recebeu em 2012 a Bolsa de Mérito Leonard Rosenfeld e Lloyd Sherwood Grant por “excelente trabalho em arte não objetiva” da Art Students League . Dangot foi recentemente aceita no disputado New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program em 2020. Dangot vive e trabalha em Nova York desde 2010.
DANCING WITH TIKTOK, 2021-2022
Acrylic painting on Mylar.
Dancing With Tiktok is Carin’s low-tech painting reaction to the social media app Tiktok. The vertical format short videos published from people’s phones with dancing, cooking, skits, DIY projects, and other trends brought various forms of comfort in a time of human isolation. With ‘something for everyone,’ Tiktok’s popularity skyrocketed while connecting people internationally and intergenerationally.
For this series, the artist worked in reverse, painting on the backside of the Mylar while watching videos on Tiktok. She gathered imprints, short bursts of impressions. Using only a few colors, she aimed to match the feelings of the short videos, not necessarily depicting in detail any individual moments. With videos averaging between 15 to 60 seconds, she focused on speed, painting with large gestural strokes.
The result on the front side of the Mylar always surprised her. In the layering process, the initial figures became less and less visible. Still, the paintings reminded her of the videos that started it all and the experience that the app’s algorithm had curated for her.
In the exhibition, viewers will only see the front side of the artwork, an abstracted composition, representing the blur and the takeaway of the whole experience of “going down the rabbit-hole” while watching video after video, now handed in the form of a ‘still’ for the viewer’s interpretation.
DANÇADO COM O TIKTOK, 2021-2022
acrílico sobre acetato
50.8 x 63.5cm cada
Dancing With Tiktok é reação low tech em forma de pintura de Carin ao aplicativo de mídia social Tiktok. Os vídeos curtos e verticais postados diretamente dos celulares das pessoas com danças, receitas, esquetes, projetos de Faça Você Mesmo, e outros modismos trouxeram formas diversas de conforto. Com “algo pra todo mundo”, o Tik Tok conectou pessoas para além das fronteiras e gerações.
Para esta série, o artista trabalhou ao contrário, pintando na parte de trás do acetato enquanto assistia a vídeos no Tiktok. Ela reuniu impressões em pinceladas curtas. Usando apenas algumas cores, ela procurou combinar os sentimentos dos vídeos curtos, não necessariamente retratando em detalhes quaisquer momentos individuais. Com vídeos com média de 15 a 60 segundos, ela focou na velocidade, pintando com grandes traços gestuais.
O resultado na frente do acetato sempre a surpreendeu. No processo de sobreposição de camadas, as figuras iniciais tornaram-se cada vez menos visíveis. Ainda assim, as pinturas a lembraram dos vídeos que começaram tudo e da experiência que o algoritmo do aplicativo havia curado para ela.
Na exposição, os espectadores verão apenas a parte frontal da obra, uma composição abstrata, representando o borrão e a impressão geral de toda a experiência de “descer pela toca do coelho” enquanto se assiste vídeo após vídeo, agora entregue na forma de um ‘still’ para a interpretação do espectador.
BLUE SKINS, 2021
Acrylic paint, live drawings by NYC exhibition workshop participants, canvas backing.CLOUDS, 2021
Acrylic paint, live drawings by NYC exhibition workshop participants, canvas backing. Installation of 6 suspended acrylic sculptures. On designated dates, the artist will offer abstract observation drawing workshops for the duration of the exhibition. She will distribute to participants blank paper pieces to draw during short intervals. The artist will use the drawings created by the public to make new compositions based on the observation of her work executed and interpreted by third parties. Those new composition drawings will be displayed in the Miami and Sao Paulo editions of this exhibition.
