
Galeria Nara Roesler is glad to present Circulation, solo show by the Swiss artist Philippe Decrauzat, the newest artist represented by the Brazilian gallery. Curated by Matthieu Poirier, the exhibition is on view simultaneously in the gallery’s São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro spaces, brings together nearly thirty works dealing with the principle of circulation. These works critically address several historical tendencies, including Concrete art, Neo-concretism, Perceptual art, Kinetic art, Op art, and Minimal art, all of which are reconsidered in light of various cultural fields such as cinema, wave physics, modernist architecture, drone music, and cognitive sciences. The viewer, moving in the gallery space, faces traps for the look, which lead to an experience of aesthetic perception and speculation that changes according to the moves and the angle of vision.
Philippe Decrauzat é um dos principais nomes da nova geração da arte ótica e cinética do cenário contemporâneo. Sua produção múltipla, composta por pinturas murais, esculturas, instalações, site-specifics e obras audiovisuais, parte de uma reflexão crítica sobre o legado da arte ótica e cinética na história da arte, recuperando nocões próprias das vanguardas de começo do século XX—em especial, o construtivismo russo—, do movimento cinético e do minimalismo. Linhas, planos, sólidos e sons são articulados pelo artista no sentido de propor situações que visam o estabelecimento de um diálogo com o espectador, estimulando o olhar do público. Para tanto, Decrauzat apresenta uma revisão da herança moderna, mobilizando métodos e teorias presentes no contexto da cultura pop e nos campos da arquitetura, do design gráfico e do cinema experimental ou de ficção científica. A ênfase de seu trabalho reside sobretudo numa percepção sobre os modos modernos de ver. Além de considerar a lógica modernista da óptica, o artista direciona sua atenção para o olho como instrumento, retomando entendimentos sobre o mecanismo de visão que se encontram excluídos dos discursos artísticos em evidência na atualidade.



Founded in São Paulo in 1989, Galeria Nara Roesler is a leading Brazilian gallery dedicated to showing the work of contemporary Brazilian and international artists. The gallery established another branch in Rio de Janeiro in 2014, followed by its first international outpost in New York City in 2015.

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