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Paulo CLIMACHAUSKA (1962) - BRASIL - Cathedral - Ink & acrylic paint on canvas - L 280 x H 200 cm – 2012 - Gallery certificate will be given to the buyer. From Brazilian constructivism, Climachauska perfected traditional tactics and techniques in contemporary works, creating a new face for an old game. Resubtractions is a fundamental piece of the artist’s work, covering four series of works that deal with numerical systems in a subtle, veiled way. The subtraction paintings that became symbolic during the artist’s career, in which Climachauska reconstructed modern buildings as if he makes a stitch, take other forms: they are cubes, sticks, letters and hours that are subtracted one by one, discreetly, not only by the artist’s hands, but mainly by the plays in the public’s mind. Whether bluffing, building models to set up cathedrals or making time stand still, his recent works appeal to the public’s imagination to continue the game. The artist’s creativity tests the audience’s fantasy each round, rescuing the child and questioning the adult in the viewer. The Cathedral series, presented in Fluxo de Caixa, an ambiguously-titled show at Artur Fidalgo gallery, is made up of four large, malevolently white canvases with images of industrial warehouses storing commodities. The minimum geometric element is the cube, modulated to create, with black lines that meet at right angles, an image that seems to have been made by a computer. When you get closer, you realise that these warehouses, despite adopting the illusion of perspective and having an almost natural size, are actually small numbers, written by hand. The industrial warehouse is the gestalt of this set of numbers. The numbers are not exactly the background, but the infrastructure of the figure - like the commodity-dominated society that shapes the contemporary world into a commodity

Starting price  30000 EUR

Adelie DUCASSE (1978) - France - Dallas floor lamp - Earthenware. Made by hand in Italy by an old Venetian manufacture H153 x 30 x 30 cm - unique piece-2022. Gallery certificate will be given to the buyer. Adelie Ducasse (1978, France) lives and works in Paris Keeping her child’s soul: this is the intention of Adelie, a multifaceted artist whose colorful, playful and joyful universe is inspired by the spontaneity of childhood and its brightly colored games such as as legos and puzzles. Adélie Ducasse grew up in the islands, New Caledonia and Réunion, where she developed her taste for colors and primitive shapes. Later, it is in California, that she reconnects with the feelings of her childhood. She lived there for a while and returned there often to enjoy her sunshine, her lifestyle and to be inspired by the modernist architecture that characterizes the region. She i a self-taught artist who specializes in the creation of ceramic light sculptures. She is interested in the possibility of modulating this material, as well as in the bright, bold colors of earthenware. She creates a construction by assembling simple geometric shapes (round, cone and rectangle) in sequences of colors, associating them mathematically. Her work is a cross between two great contradictory inspirations: the Bauhaus (German school founded in 1919) and the Memphis group (Italian design school founded in the 1980s). By reinterpreting the codes of these two artistic groups, she manages to draw on the simplicity of the Bauhaus lines as well as on the rhythmic color sequences of the Memphis group. The use of bright and contrasting colors gives dynamism to the simple and geometric forms of her sculptures.

Starting price  5200 EUR
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