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Full Circle
Eduardo
Padilha and Michael Schwab
A Collaborative Exhibition and Publication Project
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Using the figure of the 'circle' as conceptual parameter in this
project, the artists' aim has been to continually activate a multitude
of its connotations through an ongoing process of critical discourse
and studio practice. The resulting exhibition of new artworks will
form only one part of the overall enquiry as the project develops
through workshops, and with the assistance of contributors, into
a concise publication. The exhibition at large will allow us to
escape given ideals associated with the 'circle' - as closed, perfect
and pure modernist or abstract vehicle. The artists' stress that
the relative symbolism we associate with it, is as much an aesthetic
idea and a social concept as it is mathematical figure. Eduardo
and Michael subvert the figure in this way to re-order and positively
charge it as a platform for deconstructing and expanding its key
inherent properties.
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is on this basis that the main exhibition takes the form of a systematic
multimedia installation with the artists separate works overlapping
and intersecting both visually and conceptually. On the walls, floor
and ceiling are mounted: drawings, paintings, photography and sculpture.
We are continually reminded of the fabric in our eclectic and urban
environment through the presentation of these works on all sides.
Cognitively we are able to utilise these interrelating motifs in order
to see beyond the gallery walls and yet find ourselves back where
we started. The resulting formal effect is a jarring one, but where
further investigation leads us to an intelligent and balanced mapping
of an imperfect universal.
Technical assistance for Eduardo Padilha: Jana Haldrich (mirror-bal),
Ricardo Matos (fabrics) and Lilian Bobschutz (wall painting) .
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