We exhibited artworks from 2 artists from Iberian peninsula. Spain and Portugal.
All artworks were displayed in form of cross lines of dialogue through the booth space.
From the material body of volumes, and the natural materials expressed onto the unique and symbolic sculptures full of archetypes by Carlos Nicanor, to the crazy and ironic dystopian narrative of João Cardoso's creature scenarios, attached with all the questions related to the loss of humanity.
Carlos Nicanor CURATORIAL THEME
Nicanor is a Brossian sculptor. It is enough to see some of his works to understand that his creativity aspires to give shape to a work that will be a caustic alteration of the object and its meaning, always proposing a new and unusual one, and that such work postulates in many cases a Dadaist position that approximates Arp and Duchamp.
Its sculptural intensity is poetic in nature. Perhaps that is why his work seems so comfortable and rigorously expressive when he embraces the legacy of the avant-garde, especially Dadaism, and their ability to make self-sufficient objects, closed entities with which a cultural key is essential to communicate.
João Cardoso´s CURATORIAL THEME
This series we exhibit explores the power of the mundane to both settle and unsettle our human state. While an expected scene can suggest normality, there is a sense of flatness, even discomfort, in the ordinary. Across João Cardoso´s latest series of paintings he explores how far he can push the boundaries of the mundane by constructing common scenes in an imagined future.
A sense of surveillance is emphasised through the consistent depiction of CCTV across the series. This intends to position the viewer as the voyeur, who uncomfortably confronts humanity’s seemingly supposed outcome.
