25.02.2010
postado por: Fortes Vilaça

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Knoten Wie Wolken Nós Como Nuvens
Em Nós como nuvens, Sailstorfer utiliza-se
A oposição entre movimento e inércia também permeia o grupo de esculturas presentes na exposição. Nestes trabalhos, o artista toma como ponto de partida diferentes nós feitos com cordas grossas. Utilizando-se de moldes, ele substitui o material que dá origem às formas das cordas, pelo alumínio fundido. O nó, maleável em sua essência, ganha rigidez na escultura. São nós que não podem mais se desfazer, formas escultóricas fechadas, que encerram uma idéia.
O filme mostra um galpão cujas paredes estão em permanente estado de expansão e retração, como se víssemos um prédio inteiro respirando. Sailstorfer filmou a explosão deste galpão em alta velocidade, um recurso que resulta num efeito câmera lenta quando vemos o filme projetado
Em 2009, Michael Sailstorfer teve uma exposição individual no PS1 MOMA, New York. Participou de inúmeras coletivas internacionais importantes como New York The Quick and the Dead, no Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, em 2009; Made in Germany, Kestnergesellschaft, Kunstverein, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, em 2007; Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of change, Sharjah Biennial;
Knoten Wie Wolken [Knots Like Clouds]
Fortes Vilaça is starting off its 2010 schedule of exhibitions with the first solo show by German artist Michael Sailstorfer in
In Knots Like Clouds, Sailstorfer uses dozens of large black inner tubes intertwined in knots and suspended at different levels like “black clouds.” In this work, developed especially for the Galpão’s space, Sailstorfer has gone back to using the industrial materials characteristic of his oeuvre. But if in daily life these tires would be in constant movement and undergoing continuous wear, here they have taken to the air, in a state of permanent suspension.
The opposition between movement and inertia also pervades the group of sculptures present at this show. The artist has based these artworks on different knots tied in thick ropes. Through the use of molds, he has substituted the material – the ropes – that gave rise to the form. The knot, an essentially malleable object, gains rigidity as aluminum sculpture. With no possibility of ever being untied, these knots are now closed sculptural forms, giving fixed embodiment to an idea.
For its part, the film shows a warehouse whose walls are continuously expanding and contracting, as though we were watching the entire building breathe. Sailstorfer filmed the explosion of this warehouse at high speed, a technique that results in a slow-motion effect when we watch the film projected at normal speed. He then removed the parts of the film in which we would see the building explode, and edited the movements of expansion and contraction to create a repetitive sequence. While the simplicity of the architectural forms evinces a sculptural thinking behind the camera, the temporal relations of movement and suspension also establish a productive dialogue with the other artworks in the exhibition.
In 2009, Michael Sailstorfer held a solo show at PS1 MoMA,