Although he belongs to the same generation as Cesar, Peters, and Salem, Nicolas Bacal (28) was born, lives and works in Buenos Aires. Arquitetura da solidão [Architecture of Solitude], his first solo show at Vermelho, seems to have been elaborated in perfect tune with the idea of knowledge and failure that pervades U=RI, with which it shares the gallery space.
The series of woodcuts Arquitetura da Solidão, which lends its title to the exhibition, is an intervention on the pages of The Cambridge Star Atlas, composed of comments and annotations in the form of a notebook about the images of the Milky Way. The result of this combination is sculpted on plywood boards and offset printed on paper manually with cyan colored ink. In this case, the grains of the wood and the original size of the plywood board constitute a third interference on the original image. The result is prints of the entire sky visible from Earth, in 180 x 250-cm format, to which the artist adds error, mistake and imprecision.
Cited and recited in various contexts and circumstances, in the field of the visual arts, architecture, astronomy, ethics, politics and the economy, the legacy of modernism continues to represent one of the main themes of current art. The confirmation of its failure is evident, but, as suggested by Bacal, Cesar, Peters and Salem, it is the acceptance of the failure of the modernist ideals that provides the space for the resignification and subversion of the terrain for the future.
Although he belongs to the same generation as Cesar, Peters, and Salem, Nicolas Bacal (28) was born, lives and works in Buenos Aires. Arquitetura da solidão [Architecture of Solitude], his first solo show at Vermelho, seems to have been elaborated in perfect tune with the idea of knowledge and failure that pervades U=RI, with which it shares the gallery space.
The series of woodcuts Arquitetura da Solidão, which lends its title to the exhibition, is an intervention on the pages of The Cambridge Star Atlas, composed of comments and annotations in the form of a notebook about the images of the Milky Way. The result of this combination is sculpted on plywood boards and offset printed on paper manually with cyan colored ink. In this case, the grains of the wood and the original size of the plywood board constitute a third interference on the original image. The result is prints of the entire sky visible from Earth, in 180 x 250-cm format, to which the artist adds error, mistake and imprecision.
Cited and recited in various contexts and circumstances, in the field of the visual arts, architecture, astronomy, ethics, politics and the economy, the legacy of modernism continues to represent one of the main themes of current art. The confirmation of its failure is evident, but, as suggested by Bacal, Cesar, Peters and Salem, it is the acceptance of the failure of the modernist ideals that provides the space for the resignification and subversion of the terrain for the future.
