Carlos Vergara – Sudário
2014
Carlos Vergara
Carlos Vergara a Sudarium is the record of an exhibition of the same name held in two museums designed by Oscar Niemeyer: Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and Museu da República, in Brasília. A sudarium is a cloth or handkerchief used to wipe away sweat. The most well-known sudarium is the Shroud of Turin, a Christian relic, believed to have been wrapped around the body of Christ. Using one of his hallmark techniques, the monotype, Carlos Vergara imprints on handkerchiefs vestiges of the different lands he has passed through during his career. Since the 1970s, Vergara has made a number of trips on which he has taken natural pigments, handkerchiefs, and cloths to make his monotypes, turning them into singular, dense records of these places. This book features a number of these works, in which the artist brings to our attention some of the most subtle, spiritual, and poetic aspects of reality.
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