Pedro Calapez

Portuguese contemporary artist

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Platform

ArtHobler Gallery - Zurich

09/04/2016 - 29/05/2016

“D’un côté donc, l’espace contient des opacités, des corps et objets, des centre d’action efférentes et d’énergies effervescentes, des lieux cachés, voire impénétrables, des viscosités, des trous noirs. De l’autre, il offre des suites, des ensembles d’objets, des enchainements de corps, de sorte que chacun en découvre d’autres, qui glissent sans cesse du non-visible au visible, de l’opacité à la transparence” – La production de l’espace, Henri Lefebvre

[EN]

The notion of platform is involving multiple concepts. It may evoke territorial definitions, a district, a place with identifiable affinities, in architecture or engineering it defines a horizontal structure, in informatics it defines specific software functionalities and in a discussion it means the set of references that serve as a place to exchange ideas, a platform of understanding and knowledge.

The works of this exhibition are based on the dialogue between different layers or platforms of colour. It is as if the knowledge of our involving space could be constructed by the disposition of layers, visually identified, that question the distance between them or the modifications that provokes the interaction between colours. It is as if the “near” or “far” would result from the opposition of structures, some more or less disfigured, that appear in places which are visually overlapped plans or distant horizons and are loosing their apparent independency.

Through my work I intend to open a dialogue with the notion of space, of architecture, the perception of distance, the outlines that hold the painted surfaces, the reading time that each image is visually suggested to us. And with this I would like to start a discussion on the integration of view on an imaginative platform that is created by the act of placing lines, layers and colours on a surface, from the opacity to the transparency.

 

[PT]

A noção de “plataforma” envolve múltiplos conceitos.  Pode evocar definições territoriais, um bairro, um local com afinidades identificáveis, será em arquitectura ou engenharia uma estrutura horizontal, em informática define específicos funcionamentos de software e ao nível de uma discussão evoca um conjunto de referencias a partir dos quais terá lugar a troca de ideias, uma plataforma de entendimento, de conhecimento.

As obras nesta exposições partem do diálogo entre diferentes planos ou plataformas de cor. Como se o conhecimento do espaço que nos rodeia se construísse na disposição de planos, visualmente identificáveis como tal, questionando sobre a distância entre si ou as modificações que provocam na interacção das suas cores. Como se o “perto” e o “longe” resultasse da oposição entre estruturas, umas mais outras menos, disformes, que aparecem em zonas que visualmente se sobrepõem a fundos ou longínquos horizontes, e que circunstacializam a sua pretensa independência.

O meu trabalho pretende dialogar com as noções de espaço, de arquitectura, de percepção de distâncias, dos contornos que sustentam as superfícies pintadas, do tempo de leitura que cada imagem subtilmente sugere ao olhar.

E assim discutir a integração do olhar na plataforma imaginária criada pelo acto de dispor linhas, planos e cores numa superfície, da opacidade à transparência.

 

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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