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Felipe Fredes
Instructions on how to disappear in three moments (pink), neuroscience triptych

2020

About the Item

In this triptych, Felipe Fredes explores how painting can show how people form a thought (left panel) and how time takes a toll on our memory of that thought (slowly fading from middle to right panel). What’s left is “everything is everything is nothing” (right panel). The now. A three-part act that can be viewed backwards, left-to-right, to recall memories and live in the present. As a neroscientist and interdisciplinary artist, Fredes uses a scientific process called freeze fracture labeling, and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) to take images of the brain tissue at a subcellular scale. This resolution is 1,000 times greater than a light microscope and about 500,000 times greater than that of a human eye. The result is a crater-like abstraction that serves as the foundation of "Instructions on how to disappear in three moments (pink)." This work is exceptional because it's one of the few in which the silver gelatin image of the brain is printed on a painted surface. Thus, Fredes first applied pink oil paint, then silver gelatin, and then more oil and then the rest. It took nearly a decade to master this type of technique, as his scientific research as a neuroscientist serves as the backdrop of many of his abstract paintings.
  • Creator:
    Felipe Fredes (1977, Chilean)
  • Creation Year:
    2020
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 39 in (99.06 cm)Width: 35 in (88.9 cm)
  • Medium:
    Gold Leaf,Oil,Silver Gelatin
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  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Brooklyn, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: FF00051stDibs: LU2589212620952
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