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o segredo da sombra – works on paper 2012-2016

Carmona e Costa Foundation - Lisboa

21/05/2016 - 02/07/2016

Curator: João Miguel Fernandes Jorge

[EN]

The shadow’s secret (excerpts)

Everything begins in the face of another. Even in the painting and drawing of Pedro Calapez. Chiefly in that risk of indiscretion that is drawing. Not in the closeness of light it may bring and preserve, but in the verbal expression of its shadow; this one is much more than mimicry: it is a voice that commands the fragility of the line, that does not let it die alone, a prisoner of indifference, in a dissolution of presence.

The line that has captured the face of another, that has preserved the water of a river, the tree of a forest, the colour of a fire or was the purest expression of its own non-face has entered the shadow’s secret.

Through the indefinite, through the infinite, the drawing achieves its passage to something more than its opposite: to a transposition and a plurality, thus somehow evading its limiting margins. Behind and inside the drawing lies its simplicity, which takes the form of a constant idea of escape, that is to say, of departure

Onto the [broader] face of abstraction, which is a kind of imaginary entrance hall for these works on paper by Pedro Calapez, multiple rules of understanding and illusion converge, in which colour stands for pure use and a hidden form of reason, also pure and simple, beneath the drawing’s dimmest section.

The eye looks for a certain point of view, pursues it and explores that stance in accordance with a certain order of succession: from drawing to drawing. It passes from one series to the next; then it goes back, just to confirm its impressions. Finally, it selects this and that other drawing. More than simply projecting itself as gaze onto the writing, the blotch, the shadow and that same shadow’s secret, the eye is a solitary walker and the drawings are its chosen paths

[PT]

O segredo da sombra (excertos), João Miguel Fernandes Jorge

Tudo começa no rosto de outro. Mesmo na pintura e no desenho de Pedro Calapez. Sobretudo, nesse risco de indiscrição que é o desenho. Não na proximidade de luz que possa trazer e guardar, mas na expressão verbal da sua sombra; esta, sim, é muito mais do que uma mímica, é uma voz que comanda a fragilidade do traço, que não o deixa morrer só, prisioneiro de indiferença, num desfazer de presença.

O risco que prendeu o rosto do outro, que guardou a água de um rio, a árvore de uma floresta, a cor de um incêndio ou que foi a expressão pura do seu próprio não rosto entrou no segredo da sombra.

Pelo indefinido, pelo infindo o desenho opera a sua passagem, mais do que a um seu contrário, a uma transposição e a uma pluralidade, e como que escapa às suas margens de limite. Por detrás e por dentro do desenho está a sua simplicidade, que se traduz por uma constante ideia de fuga, isto é, de partida.

No rosto [maior] da abstracção, que é uma espécie de átrio imaginário destas obras sobre papel de Pedro Calapez, convergem múltiplas regras de entendimento e também de ilusão, onde a cor representa um puro uso e uma forma escondida de razão, também ela pura e simples, sob a parte mais velada do desenho.

O olhar procura um ponto de vista determinado e persegue-o e joga essa sua perspectiva sob uma certa ordem de sucessão: de desenho a desenho. Passa desta à série próxima; retrocede, com o sentido único de comprovar. Por fim elege este, aquele outro desenho. Mais do que projectar-se enquanto olhar na escrita, na mancha, na sombra e no segredo dessa mesma sombra, o olhar é um passeante solitário e os desenhos são os caminhos que percorre.

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Pedro Calapez

Pedro Calapez, Lisbon based artist, began taking part in exhibitions in the seventies (and hasn't stopped since...) About Pedro

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