. MARCELO MOSCHETA

Photo: Edouard Fraipont

REPORT OF MARCELO MOSCHETA’S EXPEDITION HELD THROUGHOUT THE EXTENT OF THE TIETÊ RIVER BETWEEN MARCH AND AUGUST 2015 In fluid dynamics, it is the drag force that causes resistance to movement of a solid object through a fluid medium as a liquid. The resistance produced from the Tiete River friction with its banks took the artist Marcelo Moscheta to conduct an expedition down the length of the river from its source in Salesópolis to the mouth of the Paraná River. From March to August were collected rocks, clay, sand and various minerals on both sides, documented and classified, as well as the cataloging of the Tiete course through the elements that are found in its two edges. Flirting with archeology, geology and the Bandeirante Paulista cycle, the artist composes a warehouse of particular memories, accounts for a small museum of curiosities that share each, your side of the fluid bed.

inkjet on paper, tape for mechanical labeler and fixed calipers on woodenframes. The image of the Mantiqueira ridge shows at distance the Prateleiras and Agulhas Negras peaks, two icons of the landscape of the Itatiaia National Park on the border between Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais. On each frame, 10 calipers make a horizon line, carrying out reading of the terrain relief.

inkjet on paper, gouache, wood, aluminum clips, old paper, graphite on PVC board and paper. from the artist: "My idea is to discuss paths as drawings.. the memory left by an ancient people that lived in the desert and made this tracks over the sand and stone during hundreds of years - the relation to the displacement of the body on the space could be interpreted as a drawing over the surface of the planet too. It’s been some time I’m working with these concepts and using a GPS to “draw” my displacements when making projects that involves traveling and exploring new places and country borders. In Atacama, you can find a lot of that stone construction called “apacheta” which means a lot of things, but the most common definition is that is a milestone for ancient paths and has a spiritual meaning of protection of those who crosses that way and contribute with a stone. they make very small and shy interventions over the landscape and talk about scale too, sometimes they can be used as a ruler to measure distances. So, what you see on the photo is a apacheta that I made myself on the desert soil, and the same place before I make it. I consider that intervention also a drawing over the landscape and the relations between the imagens and objects are a cyclic relationship (cobblestone, drawing with ink or pencil/graphite, geometric painting with white gouache ink) that talks about time. The idea is to relate the desert stone, which is a milestone and the cobblestone wich is the pavement, the way itself".

inkjet on paper, pins and 21 plates of cellular concrete. The images of a mountain covered with rocks and snow reveal the action of time and of the icy winds of the Svalbard Archipelago, in the North Pole. As a landslide, the scene recalls the ruins of what is left over when the planet is strongly rocked. The contrast between the column and the images creates the dialog between chaos and order, the horizon that is the landscape and the vertical line, the human action on the world.

II BIENAL DE MONTEVIDEO: 500 ANOS DE FUTURO - IGLESIA DE SAN FRANCISCO DE ASSIS - MONTEVIDEO - URUGUAI

FRESTAS - TRIENAL DE ARTES, SESC SOROCABA, SOROCABA, BRASIL. 2014-2015.

GRAPHITE ON PVC ON IRON STRUCTURE

FILM PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY, PANTONE® CODE TABLE AND ACRYLIC

2000 HANDWRITED PAPER TAGS, ALUMINIUM, IRON SHELVES, FLUORESCENT LAMPS, ELECTRICAL WIRES, POLIESTIRENE BOXES, AND STAMP ON PAPER