4pontos | Installation | 'Outros Olhares' | Museu Municipal Abade Pedrosa, International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Santo Tirso
Artistic confluence at the Abade Pedrosa Museum in Santo Tirso with the installation of the group 4Pontos consisting of Carlos Casimiro da Costa, Jacinta Casimiro da Costa, Sara Bento Botelho and Ricardo Gonçalves with the photographers Nelson Garrido; Olivia da Silva, Bruno Cruz and curated by Horácio Marques
22 March. to 23 Maio 2013
materia | reused tubes, recovered from the dismantled Novinco plant
As Guy Brett said about Gego’s magnificent work, the process is primarily established by doing and undoing and in that sense the work crosses new cycles and new rhythms. Within the lines’ pace nothing new is sought, merely simplicity or unbalanced ways of seeing.
Those unbalances, those alternative modes of viewing, underlined the creative process of 4Pontos for the project Outros Olhares. On one hand, the intervention ought be collaborative, a symbiotic gathering made of sculpture and image, erecting a unified artistic expression. Free from conceptual borders, it should combine the appropriation of a space and three different views over Santo Tirso — an integration challenge. On the other hand, the previous structures built by the group all lived outside and it’s contamination was widespread and unchained; the Museu Abade Pedrosa suggested a virulent work, the alien organism would grow and live within that body, elongated, sealed and solemn.
In response, the work must occupy and be occupied; block and allow passage; disclosure and conceal. Its restless lines would lower the monumental internal dimension. The viewer would have its comfortable museum promenade taken away and find himself immersed in the piece, be part of it and give it sense. The space and its limits were acknowledged and the photographers’ views were foreseen. The sculpture flourished in paths and framed portraits; climbed walls stretching its boundaries beyond the solemnness of the chandeliers. It held images, scattered monads on the mesh that overlay themselves as one can grasp on the streets — the focus and unfocus rhythm of the one that elects what to see. In the sharpness of its angles new visions are pursued!
The reuse of PVC* tubes as a constructing medium appeared in 2011 with the work IPP PVC 10 63x0.25 ANOS, made for the exhibition Elipse da Duração, commemorating Instituto Politécnico do Porto’s anniversary, held at Palacete Pinto Leite. A few months later the group was selected to present a piece of public art for the 12th edition of Festival Imaginarius. Again, the collective explored the event’s location, highlighting its paths and the public immersion in art. The PVC built sculpture insisted on displaying simple elements strengthened by its union; spreading webs throughout surfaces, between spaces and individuals. What was then presented meant to poke boundaries, an exercise about the intrinsic and extrinsic tensions of an involving structure that featured a passageway. The mesh got hold of a river’s banks, establishing connections, searching dialogues.
These searches — tensions, dialogues and passages — are a kind of commitment, now presented in Outros Olhares.
The group 4Pontos was introduced in December 2008 with an installation built for Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança, exploring concepts like mimesis, space, nature, context, environment and structure. In 2009 another work was presented at Festival Imaginarius maintaining the formal exploration of natural references and its relations to urban materials and environments.
The group gathers:
Carlos Casimiro Costa, Porto 1970
Bac. Product Design | Master in Industrial Design | PhD in Industrial Design
Teacher at IPB and FEUP
Jacinta Costa, Vila Nova de Gaia 1974
Bac. Product Design | Master in Multimedia in Education | PhD student in Design
Teacher at IPB
Ricardo Gonçalves, Matosinhos 1973
Bac. Fine Arts Painting | Master in Children Studies ICT | PhD student in Design
Teacher at IPP
Sara Bento Botelho, Porto 1974
Bac. Fine Arts Sculpture | Màster en Disseny i Producció Multimèdia | PhD student in Design
Teacher at IPP
Acknowledgments:
Quadrado Branco, City Hall Santo Tirso
