Pedro Calapez

Portuguese contemporary artist

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Transferência

Ermida Nossa Sra. da Conceição - Lisboa

05/11/2011 - 18/12/2011

[EN]

On the walls, white / among colours, black / among outlines, soft shadings / among angles or corners, symmetries / inverted heights on the skirting boards/ from close to the ground through to the top of the smooth wall, transfers.

My project for the Ermida is structured, in line with my recent practice, around painting. Developing the idea of fragmentation, I try to create relationships between shapes, structures, adapting to the surfaces or spaces where they are set, decidedly invading the present interior of this chapel.

This is about deconstructing the space as we recognize it. I intend to move the historic weight of this space to a different plane, a new autonomous space, which, by its plastic vibration will help us forget the space where these new paintings are set, since a studied interaction will present a new place to us. This is not about denying the existing space; rather about making us conscious that the space we share is also the one that, at a given moment in time, we open our eyes to and that it is possible to maintain a dialogue with history by refusing its discourse.

Pedro Calapez

 

[PT]

Transferência

nas paredes, o branco / nas cores, o preto / nos contornos, as suaves sombras / entre ângulos ou nas esquinas, as simetrias / alturas invertidas nos rodapés/ de junto ao chão e até ao topo da lisa parede, transferências.

O meu projecto para a Ermida estrutura-se, como tem sido a minha prática recente, em torno da pintura. Desenvolvendo a ideia de fragmentação, tento relacionar formas, estruturas, que se adaptam às superfícies ou espaços onde são colocadas, invadindo o actual interior desta capela de uma forma determinante.

Trata-se de desfazer o espaço como o reconhecemos. Pretendo deslocar o peso histórico do espaço para um diferente plano, um novo espaço autónomo, que pela sua vibração plástica irá fazer esquecer o espaço onde esta novas pinturas se encontram pois um novo lugar surgirá pela estudada interacção. Não se trata de negar o espaço existente mas sim tornar consciente que o espaço em que convivemos é também aquele que num determinado momento abrimos ao nosso olhar e que é possível dialogar com a história na recusa do seu discurso.

Pedro Calapez

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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