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Seco, Sujo e Pesado is a title based on a newspaper headline about São Paulo’s polluted and dry air during the winter…
and… this piece is recently-created and has never been shown before,
but it has a lot to do with the first color gradation I created
For years, I have been obsessed with the color gradation that goes from gray to blue in the sky of São Paulo, since I moved here in 1992
For each place I create a different color gradation, which is essentially a transition of colors
To me, the cool aspect of color gradations is the fact that they are transitions, one color becoming another
But almost all colors fit in this transition
And at the same time, each gradation is very unique
It is always studied, imagined, created based on the place where it will be put, on the available light of the place
In the case of Seco, Sujo, e Pesado, I worked with verisimilar colors, which can be found in the sky of São Paulo…
But I gradually blended, saturated and added a lot of gray in this mixture
The idea was to filter all the light that enters the room
through color gradation and to project this transition from one color to the other on the walls
In order to create the impression of a mass of color, and to make people feel that they are inside the color than looking at it from a distance
The filter for this window was created based on images that were part of a huge collection of sunrise and sunset images
So, the color gradation I created was sort of inspired by these images
When you use inkjet to print, you have many tiny dots in a translucent surface, which is what I usually do
And these tiny dots end up by reproducing the same effect as when we pay attention to the sky
When I work with projects that are directly related to in a given architecture
in an environment I discovered, just as the works that are here at the Gallery
I always try to use natural light.
The instability of natural light is what I find the most interesting
And in the case of color gradation filters, it is also related with the idea of transition from one color to another
So, it is a light, a color that you cannot actually apprehend because it is always becoming something else