Pedro Calapez

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Byte

Galeria Belo Galsterer - Lisboa

13/03/2014 - 10/05/2014

[EN]

The series of works titled “BYTE” (2014), consists of isolated panels, shaped square or circular, made of aluminum lacquered plates and painted with alkyd paint (fast drying oil paint). The title “BYTE” evokes the machine language in computing, in which the genesis of the word, and thus of  communication, is a combination of octets of bits.

In fact, a byte is defined as a unit of digital information consisting of eight-bit sequence of electronic devices that are turned on or off, and graphically representing binary language by the numbers zero and one. Each of these paintings, for their circular shapes (zero) and square (one) questions the hypothetical observer if the coexistence of word and image will be possible only in a contrived, coded form.

 

[PT]

A série de trabalhos que intitulei “BYTE” (2014), é constituída por painéis isolados, de forma quadrada ou circular, fabricados em  chapa de alumínio lacada e pintados com tinta alquídica (tinta de óleo com secagem rápida). O título “BYTE” pretende evocar o sistema de linguagem máquina em informática, em que a génese da palavra, e portanto da comunicação, resulta da combinação de octetos de bits.

De facto um Byte é definido como uma unidade de informação digital constituída por 8 bits, sequência de dispositivos electrónicos que ora estão ligados ou desligados, representados graficamente pelos algarismos “zero” e “um”, notação da linguagem “binária”. Cada uma destas pinturas, pelas suas formas circular (zero) e quadrada (um) questiona, o hipotético observador, se a coexistência da palavra e a imagem só será possível de uma forma artificiosa, codificada.

– Pedro Calapez, 2014

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