António Bolota

Exposición / Galería Quadrado Azul - Lisboa / Rua Reinaldo Ferreira, 20 A / Lisboa, Portugal
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Cuándo:
09 oct de 2014 - 12 dic de 2014

Inauguración:
09 oct de 2014 / 22:00

Horario:
Opening hours: 1–8pm (tue to sat)

Precio:
Entrada gratuita

Organizada por:
Galeria Quadrado Azul

Artistas participantes:
António Bolota

ENLACES OFICIALES
Web 

Teléfonos
00351213476280

Correo electrónico
lisboa@quadradoazul.pt

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Etiquetas
Arquitectura  Arquitectura en Lisboa  Escultura  Escultura en Lisboa  Instalacion  Instalacion en Lisboa 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

António Bolota Benguela, Angola, 1962. Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. António Bolota began exhibiting in the mid-1990s, bringing in the artistic universe knowledge from engineering, his area of studies. A series of technical expertise are convened to the creation of sculptures which confront the space, or merge in the architecture. The work of Bolota always responds to a specific place, it relates with architecture and it is the result of an operation of manipulation of the forces which act on the bodies, such as gravity, weight, attraction, tension or balance. The scale, the relation with the architecture, the relation with the floor, the relation with the body of the spectator, the rigour on the design and on the finishing of the surface and the use of certain materials, constitute a grammar which refers to the experiments carried out in the late 1960s, in the tradition of modern sculpture. He was one of the artists selected for the EDP New Artists Award, in 2009. For the exhibition, he made a monumental wedge in steel, plaster and iron oxide, in suspension and 1 mm from the floor. Another remarkable intervention was the first exhibition in Quadrado Azul, consisting in a wall sustained by an iron beam and 40 cm from the floor, requiring the confrontation of the viewer with the weight of the wall, when traversing the gallery space.

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