A recurrent theme on Angela Detanico e Rafael Lain’s work, language is once again approached at this exhibition. “Espaços de Tempo” (time spaces) works are presented for the first time in Sao Paulo.
Local time was first shown at the duo’s solo exhibition Um dado tempo um dado lugar (a given time a given space) at the Museu de Arte da Pampulha, in Belo Horizonte (MG). With this work, Detanico and Lain propose a correspondence between letters of the alphabet and global time zone system. In order to create it, the duo started from studies by North-American astronomist and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), who used alphabet letters to identify the 24 time zones on earth.
Wind Spelling (2008) is a sound piece in which names of south winds are spelled at a sound scale created from the speed decrease of a human blowing. The highest and shortest note stands for the letter A and the longest and lowest note stands for the letter Z. These sounds/letters are overlapped and combined to pronounce names such as Elephanta, Minuano and Sirocco.
Something Crossing (2008) shows a text composed in Ventania – an alphabet derived from a system for notation of wind intensity – that is animated according to wind directions observed everyday at some point in central Atlantic Ocean.
As in some of their prior works, Espaços de Tempo reaffirms the independency of art on the philosophical field, suggesting an intermediate zone in constant transit between the visible and the invisible, establishing proximities among art and language in the form of typographies, graphic design, video, architecture and sound.
A recurrent theme on Angela Detanico e Rafael Lain’s work, language is once again approached at this exhibition. “Espaços de Tempo” (time spaces) works are presented for the first time in Sao Paulo.
Local time was first shown at the duo’s solo exhibition Um dado tempo um dado lugar (a given time a given space) at the Museu de Arte da Pampulha, in Belo Horizonte (MG). With this work, Detanico and Lain propose a correspondence between letters of the alphabet and global time zone system. In order to create it, the duo started from studies by North-American astronomist and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), who used alphabet letters to identify the 24 time zones on earth.
Wind Spelling (2008) is a sound piece in which names of south winds are spelled at a sound scale created from the speed decrease of a human blowing. The highest and shortest note stands for the letter A and the longest and lowest note stands for the letter Z. These sounds/letters are overlapped and combined to pronounce names such as Elephanta, Minuano and Sirocco.
Something Crossing (2008) shows a text composed in Ventania – an alphabet derived from a system for notation of wind intensity – that is animated according to wind directions observed everyday at some point in central Atlantic Ocean.
As in some of their prior works, Espaços de Tempo reaffirms the independency of art on the philosophical field, suggesting an intermediate zone in constant transit between the visible and the invisible, establishing proximities among art and language in the form of typographies, graphic design, video, architecture and sound.