Figura (Figure)

Note:

 

I have used the term Figura as an abbreviation for Human Figure.
And so it appears as the title of this Series and Collections

Gabriel Borba

Conjunto da Obra

Figura (Figure)

Mascara video installation

Nós (Us or Knots)

Obra esparsa (scattered works)

Pequeno Mobiliário Brasileiro

Portraits

Saga do Guerreiro Morto (Saga of the Dead Warrior)

Sudario (Shroud)

TRÄMA

Nocturnus Itineri Sudario Secundus, 2009

Impresso, 41.50 X 30.00

Works, Series and Collections: Figura (Figure),Mascara video installation,Sudario (Shroud)

Expositions: Contemporâneos 2021

Nocturnus Itineri Sudario

Night walking shroud

My commentary

 

A first photo of the theme was made to integrate one of the sections of the S8 Ou.
Curator Frnciso Salas framed this first photo and exposed it, without title, in I Walk the Night, 2019, Gallery PM8, Spain.

Untitled at the time but with at least two autonomous derivatives with Sudario as title, it occurred to me to identify them as a series, from that exhibition on, with first and last name.
The first one, that was in the exhibition I Walk the Night, "et our cause", became Nocturnus Itineri Sudario, Primus. The other derivatives were called Nocturnus Itineri Sudario, Secundus and Nocturnus Itineri Sudario, Tertius (Shroud for Night Walk, First, Second, Third).

As I am a storyteller, here are a few ones related to all this: I do not remember when, in conversation with Emanoel de Melo Pimenta about things like that he advises me "give a name in Latin and that's it". I did.

Gastão Magalhães, today a nominated artist, at the time, when my student of Communication Theory at FAAP, the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation, spat on a theoretical test sheet, scribbles "all the artist spits is art" and leaves.
I resorted to Emanoel in the need I felt to identify each piece in this series and I used Gastão Magalhães to understand the collecting stuff in my drawers by curators.

And, of course, I used the title of the delicious Gerifalto Primus et Secundus by Celso Paulini, São Paulo, S/Ed, 1979.
Where I learned that

"O amor é nu. É forma e sobressalto.

..."

(Love is nude. It is a form and a startle)

Gabriel Borba, 2020