José Damasceno – Cirandar todos
12/16/2014 — 02/22/2015
Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Cirandar Todos, curated by Ligia Canongia, is the title of one of the works and the exhibition José Damasceno is presenting at Casa França-Brasil. The installation makes use of just one element: 30-centimeter-high wooden dolls. A group of around 150 male and female figures are joined together to form a circle. The sculpture bears an immediate correspondence, amongst other things, to an old folk dance-cum-children’s game called the ciranda.
In the adjoining rooms there are three different works. Monitor-Crayon, made up of 90,000 crayons placed in juxtaposition merely by being fitted into the frame, forms a multi-colored abstract image. The same room is also occupied by 1/4, a sculpture made of two solid ellipses of Corten steel, one of which is on the wall and the other on the floor, shaping an imaginary circle and merely suggesting that in the visitors imagination they would continue their route through the wall and the floor. In the other room is BRmm, a collage of hundreds of newspaper cuttings arranged in the shape of the map of Brazil, and neon lights tracing the shape of the room.
The proposal is designed to enunciate the possibility of empowering the aesthetic experience through playful and unexpected perspectives; space, thought, and imagination directed linked by using extremely simple, basic elements.
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