Conjunto da Obra

Artemicro (Artmicro)

Em Quatro Desentende-se Melhor (Four are Best Misunderstood)

Figura (Figure)

Hino dos Vencidos (Anthem of the Defeated)

Jaula da Anta (Tapir's Cage)

Nós (Us or Knots)

Operador (Operator)

PGU 666 and Artista Profissional

POESIA eVENTO

Rebusteia

Receita de Arte Brasileira

The Lady I long for

TRÄMA

Transparências (Transparencies)

Um Golpe de Dada (A Coup of Dada)

Vinte Pagina (Twenty Pages)

Nós (impresso), 1975

impresso colagem e fios coloridos, 29.70 X 21.00

Works, Series and Collections: Figura (Figure),Nós (Us or Knots),TRÄMA

Expositions: 60 pós 60, AI-5 50 ANOS (AI-5 50 YEARS), Coleção em Cartaz (Collection on Display), Espaço B, In Contextu, Saturn, Tempos Fraturados

NÓS

Briefing

 

From the album TRÄMA, 1975, off set and silk thread on  tracing paper, 32 x 22 cm.
Cover of "Collection: other approaches: vol.I" Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo. Text by Evandro Nicolau, pg 21

Translation

 

João Borba Commentary,

 

"This printed NÓS (we or knots), besides being a beautiful piece, is very interesting. Many readings grows if the political context is not overemphasized. Being tied together suggests more than what is weighed down by the context. The piece has a game of contrasts that fascinates: the weight of the content in the background and the lightness of the superimposed transparency; the human and corporeal and the grid that is almost a Cartesian graphic. And the sewing of the two planes in those lines like scars following the shape of the body is fascinating.

It says a lot.

The piece, I think, is political on another level, extending even beyond the mere context of the time, which may have been the springboard.

The stitching is also reminiscent of blood.

The fact that it is an image of the artist himself also leaves a mark on one's thoughts.

The graph suggests calculation, in that plane of lightness of transparency.

And it has the detail of being displaced from the frame, giving prominence to the grid of the graph as being a grid itself... A calculated thing that somehow softens the weight of the content in the background... As if the whole piece calculatingly escapes from its own content to a plane of aesthetic lightness, sublimating...

The grid outside the frame looks like a loose grid, ready for an escape"

João Borba, 2021