Conjunto da Obra

Apenas (Just)

Arte ou Similar (Art or Similar)

Caixinhas (Little Boxes)

Imagens de Urgência (Urgency Images)

Limiar do Visível (Threshold of the visible)

Mandinga

Mandinga com Ponto Cruz e Etiqueta

Mandinga com Ponto Cruz e Etiqueta, 2003

Cesto tecido cordão bambu

Works, Series and Collections: Mandinga

Informações Informações

Risco Arisco (Risky Risk)

Transparências (Transparencies)

Um Golpe de Dada (A Coup of Dada)

Urnas (Urns)

Nife 4, 1969

Madeira e aço, 0.00 X 0.00 X 0.00

Works, Series and Collections: Arte ou Similar (Art or Similar)

Expositions: Arte ou Similar (Art or Similar)

A director of the Swedish company Nife Accumuladores do Brasil Ltda, came to me in 1969 interested in a work of art to present to the CEO who was leaving the country. During an afternoon at the studio 
he separated some paintings and accepted my proposal to spend a few days in the factory where I would make a few pieces in the workshops, with material and tools that were available, and would give one of them to him at his choice. 

The adventure resulted in NIFE 1; NIFE 2; NIFE 3 and NIFE 4. The chosen one was this same NIFE 4. The idea helped develop a few other pieces, which, ephemeral as they were, they did not stand the test of time. The one that remained was the st h.

The NIFE set was used by Julio Katinsky in an Industrial Design Biennial in Rio de Janeiro. I don´t know how it happened and, from what I remember, Julio Katinsky exhibited photographs, in Rio, and not the pieces themselves. Maybe it was just a lecture, or so.

I know that the appreciation I had for this professor was matched by what can be seen in the dedication of a book in which he participated where one can read "to Gaby whose ideas charm me by their consequence. A hug Julio R. Katinsky S.P. 12/17/85"

The NIFE director who had visited me back then, and made his choice at the time ended up buying one of the paintings from the Imagens de Urgência (Urgency Images ) Collection.

Gabriel Borba, 2015