Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Transporting "Matter"

The idea of transporting works of art dismantled, and in the latency of being put together again, never seems to stop fascinating me.

The day before the opening of my exhibition "Matter" at MK Gallery, I took all the pieces from my studio, pilled them up, rolled the pictures, dismantled the shelves and placed them in the boot of Sherrelea Weber's ( a very talented artist and dear friend) car.

The whole idea of having a complete show, full of conceptual tensions to me, that took so long to be understood by myself, totally pilled up for a trip is indeed overwhelming.

Although it may seem as some pieces of logs in the boot of a car and old shelves, that is exactly what is breathtaking about it: that it is the latency of an exhibition, of precisely orchestrated works of art with the intension of proposing reflexions to the viewers.

I can't help appealing to a metaphore. Caravans, caged animals,faces not yet painted and red noses in boxes traveling through roads is not yet a circus. The magician still hasen't taken the rabbit out of the hat, the canvas is still not up, the elephants are still resting. However, it is a circus to be. That tension, that potentiality of the almost being is not only powerful, but contains within it the indexical inscription of what will be in a given moment.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Making of "Matter"

The following video reveals an insight on the making of the solo exhibition "Matter" at MK Gallery selected for the 2012 Showcase.

www.mkgallery.org

From 16th to 22nd of August

Special Thanks to Helen Turton, Sherrelea Webber and Raphael Fonseca.


Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Making of "1/2"

The work "1/2" (2011) has been giving me interresting questions lately. The original version, made in late 2011 was sent to Brazil for the exhibition NOVÍSSIMOS 2012 at Galeria IBEU. For that occasion I had to separate the two parts in different packages. Curiously that situation revealed me another latent concept within the work: that they were both different. However we may conceptualize mathematically the idea of half, it won't be as such in the real world. So the work is now in Brazil. Therefor, for my solo exhibition entitled "Matter" at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, I had to make a new version. Here is the making of this version in the laser cutter (2x faster in the video) and the images of the finished work.