Contexts
Building Blocks
The use of the computer in the development of studies in drawing or digital painting has been a regular practice of mine for several years. This digital file contains photographs, scans or simple drawings made directly on the screen through the different softwares available. The selected themes take common names like “skies”, “bodies”, “accidents”, mountains” or “architectures”. After working on these images some of them appear to be finished, I then decide to print them and continue to manipulate their surface with ink, pencil or oil sticks. It seemed interesting to me to reveal this digital work, sometimes the base […]
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Transparências
Um diálogo de Pedro Calapez e Nuno Faria em torno do conceito de livro de desenho. É longa e profícua a tradição de colaboração entre artistas e escritores ou teóricos, para usar, simplificando, termos que designam mas que não caracterizam fielmente a contribuição de cada uma das partes envolvidas nessa relação. Essa colaboração tem ponto de encontro no interior do objecto-livro, território que, por ser mais familiar ao escritor que ao artista, equilibra a relação de forças entre a imagem e a palavra, cujo ascendente pende naturalmente para a primeira. Foi, nesta colaboração, nosso desígnio indistinguir essa relação hierárquica e […]
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Conversation piece
“Conversation piece” is a digital print in a three copy edition, dated 2012. It’s formed by a 102 paper sheet grid, each sheet with 42 x 30 cm, making up a total dimension of 260 x 520 cm. The work deals with the development of a drawing that multiplies itself by symmetries and repetitions. Taking a small unit as a starting point, in this case an architectonic fragment, a fragment of a window, a construction through successive collages and recompositions was simulated. Hence, a mechanical practice was established, envisioning an apparently goalless perpetual movement. The drawing, materialised in a fragile […]
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Gun Powder
Gunpowder is what that special chinese tea is called, which appearance is of little spheres – just like gunpowder – that blossom on boiling water when a pot of tea is being prepared. In this tall porcelain tea container, designed to evoke the memory of the ancient chinese tea boxes, i’ve decided to drain an explosion of colours simulating or anticipating the expectation of that strong beverage. In its sides, the paint drips in an upwards movement interrupting itself irregularly before reaching the top, but also describing a lateral movement that while it seems continuous it is in fact not, […]
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