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I did a show
because of a prize I won in Spain in 2008
the Velásquez,
Velásquez Prize
I was supposed to do a show at Reina Sofia
and I had a compromise with Serralves Museum
also for a show
so it became the same exhibition
and when we were still in Madrid
there was a
a message from Vicente Todolí
the
artistic advisor for
HangarBicocca
saying that he would like to bring the exhibition
but only the large scale pieces
I was curious
and then the curator of that show, João Fernandes
who was at that time director of
Serralves Museum
we came
to Milan to visit the Hangar
and of course when I
first saw the space I understood why he wanted the large-scale pieces. But then,
when we started to make the
list of works,
first I thought I could have only
Southern Cross
the little piece in the big hangar
but then we talked more, and Vicente
chose
a list of installations, because he knew already the works
since 1993
when we first worked together
and then we came to this final list,
which are here now.
Of course, when you
mature
you keep changing
your way of
looking, thinking
about the things
and also because always I hate the idea of a style
and
I think art gives you the possibility
for every new idea that comes, you try to solve it in a different way.
I use to say:
style is good for galleries
not for the artists, for the artists it's kind of dead.
So, I think I can still remember
the little biography of some of the works, not the totality of the works, and
each one has
a different origin.
it can be some street seller I have seen, in the case of the Marulho, the books
in Rio de Janeiro I was walking, then there was this guy selling second hand books
that were opened, so it was like waves, all the images were
see images
and you could use as a palette
open the space, created a
a sea kind of
surface.
Or they come from
unwrapped
object that I bought
I was walking
and the unwrapped the cellophane and threw it in the garbage
and after a while you start
listening and something you see
and the cellophane was moving
and from that point I started. And of course
firme
So,
each work has a different origin.
Blindhotland, of instance, has a
literary origin
maybe a Kafka
story
and then
Jorge Luis Borges
he has another story about a very heavy object
and so I started working slowly by slowly
so each one has a different background.