Vermelho presents, from August 14th to September 6th, 2007, the exhibition Quando ramos são subtraídos [When branches are subtracted] by André Komatsu.
In Quando ramos são subtraídos [When branches are subtracted], André Komatsu proposes, based on “Marco 1”, a lighthouse-shaped installation in the central space of the gallery’s ground floor, an archaeological review of the concepts that, since the 60s, have permeated the processes of artistic creation and its products. Installation originally presented in 2006, at the Bolsa Pampulha Project at the Pampulha Art Museum, in Belo Horizonte (MG), “Marco 1” creates a pulsating valve in the exhibition space and alludes to the idea of containment and expansion that guides the exhibition as a all. Like a lighthouse that guides vessels, the light emitted by the installation, a rotating high-pressure mercury lamp, establishes a rhythm that leaks into spaces not previously determined by the artist, and suggests one of the layers of interpretation in Quando ramos são subtraídos [When branches are subtracted]. Projecting light and creating shadows, it points to history and reveals the materiality of the objects that occupy the white cube, such as the remains of demolished walls, bricks and cement blocks that make up the series “Informe Publicitário” (2006). Over this waste, the artist writes words like “finished”, “new” or “fine” (see images in the attached PDF). In the work, Komatsu uses the idea of the ready-made but returns the object to its materiality and original history. The meaning of the words in Portuguese points to the current fetishization of the artistic object.
Vermelho presents, from August 14th to September 6th, 2007, the exhibition Quando ramos são subtraídos [When branches are subtracted] by André Komatsu.
In Quando ramos são subtraídos [When branches are subtracted], André Komatsu proposes, based on “Marco 1”, a lighthouse-shaped installation in the central space of the gallery’s ground floor, an archaeological review of the concepts that, since the 60s, have permeated the processes of artistic creation and its products. Installation originally presented in 2006, at the Bolsa Pampulha Project at the Pampulha Art Museum, in Belo Horizonte (MG), “Marco 1” creates a pulsating valve in the exhibition space and alludes to the idea of containment and expansion that guides the exhibition as a all. Like a lighthouse that guides vessels, the light emitted by the installation, a rotating high-pressure mercury lamp, establishes a rhythm that leaks into spaces not previously determined by the artist, and suggests one of the layers of interpretation in Quando ramos são subtraídos [When branches are subtracted]. Projecting light and creating shadows, it points to history and reveals the materiality of the objects that occupy the white cube, such as the remains of demolished walls, bricks and cement blocks that make up the series “Informe Publicitário” (2006). Over this waste, the artist writes words like “finished”, “new” or “fine” (see images in the attached PDF). In the work, Komatsu uses the idea of the ready-made but returns the object to its materiality and original history. The meaning of the words in Portuguese points to the current fetishization of the artistic object.