Drawing, collages and related

Drawing

My commentary, 2018

 

Drawing has been a way of thinking.

 

Carlos Fajardo says that "drawing is the space between", Desenho como Instrumento, Cooperativa dos Artistas Plásticos de São Paulo, 1979. Of course.

A portrait, even a caricature, is precisely what is between the several turns of the line. A line that somewhat determines the quality of its expression. Ironic, funny,denouncing ...

But What about the circle?  Is it that the circle is  itself its surrounding line or the disk that is, actually, the "space between"? Here no deformation is allowed except for the quality of the line: hue, value, sensitivity ... The disk, though, will always be the same

 

Phrase attributed to Picasso draw my attention: "Before a painting was a sum of additions. With me a painting is a sum of destruction. "

 

Such things would destroy the circle. They would overshadow the disk to construct an expressive far-reaching mode than the specific object of that drawing. Meaning that it goes beyond the "space between".

The space around, them?

Or better, the "space between" those who see and that wich is seeing.

 

Note: In this website Photos; Photomontage; engraving and other printed matter are classified as Drawings, collages and related

Gabriel Borba, 2018

Conjunto da Obra

A Mão da Moça (The Hand of the Girl)

Apenas (Just)

Cartas de Alexandria (Letters from Alexandria)

Cicatriz (Scar)

Corpo che cade

Deconstrução

Figura (Figure)

Gestörte Numeration

Hino dos Vencidos (Anthem of the Defeated)

Imagens de Urgência (Urgency Images)

Jaula da Anta (Tapir's Cage)

Lembranças de Viagem (Travel Souvenirs)

Limiar do Visível (Threshold of the visible)

Mascara video installation

Nós (Us or Knots)

O Estado das Coisas (The State of Things)

O Gato Acorrentado a Um Só Traçado (The Cat Chained to a Single Stroke)

Objeto ME

Objeto ME az

Objeto ME az, 1981

Heliografia com madeira e fio, 53.00 X 55.00 X 0.00

Works, Series and Collections: Objeto ME

Objeto ME vm

Objeto ME vm, 1981

Heliografia com madeira e fio, 51.00 X 52.00 X 0.00

Works, Series and Collections: Objeto ME

Obra esparsa (scattered works)

Opereta

Pequeno Mobiliário Brasileiro

Portraits

Rebusteia

Risco Arisco (Risky Risk)

Saga do Guerreiro Morto (Saga of the Dead Warrior)

Série Carnavalesca (Carnival Series)

Sudario (Shroud)

The Lady I long for

TRÄMA

Transparências (Transparencies)

Visitando Miró (Visiting Miró)

Gestörte Nummeration, c.1973

Nankin sobre papel

Works, Series and Collections: Gestörte Numeration

Expositions: In Contextu

 

Gestörte Nummeration

Disturbed Numbering

 

My commentary

 

Professor Markus Neuwirth, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Innsbruck, Austria, searching the archives of the KUNST MERAN MERANO ARTE, Northern Italy, finds a folder with the legacy of artist Regina Klaber Thusek, composed of correspondence, artworks, and diary.

In her diary she recounts an amazing meeting we had at Vilem Flusser's home, Merano, Italy, where I was spending a season and she expressed her enthusiasm for my conversation and the paperworks I was carrying. She describes at length, and with some enthusiastic exaggeration, my 1972 installation named Ambiente de Confrontação (Confrontation Environment). 

A drawing that accompanies the mesage from prof. Neuwirth, arrives with the "title" Gestört Nummeration which I will keep. I don't remember this drawing but I know it's mine, partner of two others, Qualidade (Quality) and Mutações; (Mutations). 

The image, probably in a picture taken by Regina Thusek, is intriguing because of its resemblance to Qualidade (Quality), probably its first study.

Gabriel Borba, 2019