Open Studio – Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro

Fumaça

A collection of small found images are blown up, darken, taken into greys. We are encountering ‘fumaça’ a grey smoke which comes out of the ‘queima’ a part of the sugar cane processing, in which the harvest gets burnt so that all snakes, and possible animals get cleared out of the canes as well as for facilitating collecting. This part of the process has been fixed by the artist and repeated, fire and smoke over and over, becoming a possible alarm within its complex history. On some photographs he tries to   trace back with paint some of the past action – fire. Resurfacing the fire with white acrylic.  Others have  created a landscape of distance, almost as if starring at an old tv, where the image with its lines is about to disappear.

 

Fumasa Proxima
Found photograph printed on paper, mounted on wood
90 x 136 cm (each)

Fumaça com fogo Branco
Found photograph printed on paper, acrylic paint, mounted on wood
143 x 83 cm

 

Arde
Found photograph printed on paper
90 x 136 cm (each)

Fumasa I
Found photograph printed on paper, acrylic paint, mounted on wood
143 x 83 cm

Fumasa II
Found photograph printed on paper
143 x 83 cm

 

2015