2013 GALERIA NUNO CENTENO
Installation views, Ojos de perro azul
Solo show, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto
October 20 – November 6, 2012
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The show consisted of two curtains, one installed at the entrance of the gallery, in front of the storefront window, and the other installed in the entrance to the gallery office, and a new group of silkscreen prints, all unique copies, all based on details of the cover design of the science fiction story book Extrapolasis, by Alexander Malec, published in 1967 by Doubleday & Company Inc., New York.
The original book cover shows a group of 15 spiral and skewed shapes connected to each other by lines. I have appropriated and isolated 2 of these figures and produced a group of images that explore different formal combinations, producing sometimes clear and simple BW prints and other times dirtier and visually complex overlapping prints. The way these where organized and installed in space was in relation to the two opposite curtains and architectural features of the gallery. The show is also divided in two, or like a coin, has two sides. From the center looking towards the entrance of the gallery all prints and the curtain have color, looking towards the office all prints and curtain are in Gray/BW.
These two bodies of works address two historical periods, which are structural aspects of my work: avant-garde and neo-avant-garde. The title of the exhibition is also the title of a short story by Gabriel García Márquez.
