22.07.2009
postado por: Fortes Vilaça
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Após quatro anos sem expor em São Paulo,
Abertura sábado 25.07.09 [14h às 17h] 26.07.09 a 29.08.09 | Galpão Fortes Vilaça
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After four years without showing in
Each work in the Projeto-Objeto series is a three-dimensional object attached to the wall, consisting of supports/boxes with a substrate of graph paper. Within them, a succession of various happenings takes place by way of collages, assemblages, cutouts and color notations, often involving the idea of a game. In extraordinary ways, they simultaneously deal with issues concerning scale and systems of representation. Damasceno discusses themes involving sculptural thought, such as relations of opposition or complementarity among the shapes, volumes and textures. The use of graph paper – a material possessing technical characteristics related to geometry as well as to the representation of a “projectual” approach – is associated with unlikely elements, giving rise to surprising unfoldings and narratives in each new artwork.
Complementar is a strictly abstract and geometric artwork without any immediate figurative reference, composed of 56 solid white tablets made from industrial polypropylene by the processes of cutting, grinding and polishing. The tablets are distributed throughout the expository space, on the walls as well as the floor. This artwork simultaneously deals with concepts of drawing, sculpture and installation, since it is related with all these categories and problematizes them by “being all of them yet not fitting fixedly in any of them.” As it is arranged throughout an open space and is walked through, the viewer experiences it spatially, observing how it spreads across the wall, thus becoming situated “within the question and the indetermination that it bears,” the artist explains.
Complementar is the development of a field of questions opened by a group of previous artworks, Poco a Poco [Little by Little],
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