{"id":3642,"date":"2015-11-10T19:13:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2015-11-10T19:14:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T19:14:34","slug":"what-do-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=3642","title":{"rendered":"What do you see?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernanda Lopes escreveu o texto abaixo para a exposi\u00e7\u00e3o SU CASA que aconteceu aqui na Gitler &amp;_, galeria do Eliot Avi meu vizinho de pr\u00e9dio aqui no Harlem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3643\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_1.jpg\" alt=\"raul_mourao_su_casa_1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_1.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3644\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_2.jpg\" alt=\"raul_mourao_su_casa_2\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_2-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3645\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_3.jpg\" alt=\"raul_mourao_su_casa_3\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/raul_mourao_su_casa_3-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What do you see?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In 1964, Frank Stella said of his paintings: &#8220;What you see is what you see.&#8221; The phrase exemplifies what is considered one of the principles of the minimalist movement. In <i>Su Casa<\/i>, Raul Mour\u00e3o seems to revisit this statement, although not taking it as an affirmation but as a question: Is What you see what you see?<\/p>\n<p>Over more than two decades of production, the work of Mour\u00e3o has always been marked by a strong interest in the urban space, the public debate, the life that happens on the street, by chance, in any corner, at any time. In <i>Su Casa<\/i> that logic seems reversed, or reconfigured, taking into account other dimension of the space and, consequently, of perception. The exhibition bears some domestic scale, human. The space of the street shop transformed into an exhibition space is much closer to the living room of an ordinary house than the white cube of the art galleries and museums.<\/p>\n<p>The show&#8217;s title also refers to the more intimate space of an artist: thestudio. The studio as an empty space, as a place of experience. Both Animal (2015) and Fenestra (2015) leave the process of its realization on display. Here the process is the artwork. The kinetic sculpture that occupies the center of the gallery is made of parts, modules. It is a piece that parts of a simple unitthat multiplied, combined and recombined by the artist reveals its complexity in different possible final structures.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the paintings live seemingly conflicting principles. It was looking at a drawing, graphic, made in his studio &#8211; comprising repeated rectangles and lines formed by the spaces between them &#8211; that the artist recognized the image of a window on it. And from there he began to pay more attention to the windows of the world. This inverts the operation of almost all of Mour\u00e3o&#8217;s production: It does not usually occur from the inside (the studio) to the outside (the world), but as something of the world, which is taken into the studio &#8211; as with the<i>Grids<\/i> series, which started with the artist&#8217;s perception of the security grills that began to occupy Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. One of the symbols of the public safety policy failure in the city began to be used by the artist as work material. Here, in the windows of Raul Mour\u00e3o, the minimalist grid composed of vertical and horizontal straight lines intersecting at orthogonal angles, which is the starting point of the work, loses its impartiality and accuracy to be built by hand. The same applies to the rectangles, the basic unit of these paintings: these geometric shapes, identical, repeated indefinitely, start to gain individuality due to worn ink, alignment errors, and other &#8220;accidents&#8221; that occur in the middle of the process. These changes produce a visual disturbance, a tension between what should be abstract and what implies a figure.<\/p>\n<p>Su Casa is an exhibition about the doubt, about the endless possibilities of seeing (the world, the work); about the exercise of putting yourself or something in doubt, about opening up, at least in thoughts, to other possibilities. It is as if we walked by it wondering: &#8220;What if?&#8221;, &#8220;Are you sure?&#8221;. And that is the truly political nature of art: getting us out of our comfort zone, of our passivity and everyday certainty, and open up the possibility of seeing the world in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>Fernanda Lopes<\/p>\n<p>NY, October\/2015<\/p>\n<p><b>O que voc\u00ea v\u00ea?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Em 1964, Frank Stella afirmou sobre suas pinturas: &#8220;O que voc\u00ea v\u00ea \u00e9 o que voc\u00ea v\u00ea.&#8221; A frase exemplifica o que \u00e9 considerado um dos princ\u00edpios do movimento minimalista. Em Su Casa, Raul Mour\u00e3o parece revisitar essa declara\u00e7\u00e3o, mas tomando-a n\u00e3o como uma afirma\u00e7\u00e3o e sim como uma pergunta: O que voc\u00ea v\u00ea \u00e9 o que voc\u00ea v\u00ea?<\/p>\n<p>Ao longo de mais de duas d\u00e9cadas de produ\u00e7\u00e3o, a obra de Mour\u00e3o sempre foi marcada por um forte interesse pelo espa\u00e7o urbano, pelo debate p\u00fablico, pela vida que acontece nas ruas, por acaso, em qualquer esquina, a qualquer hora. Em Su Casa essa l\u00f3gica parece se inverter, ou se reconfigurar, levando em conta outra dimens\u00e3o de espa\u00e7o e, como consequ\u00eancia, de percep\u00e7\u00e3o. A exposi\u00e7\u00e3o guarda certa escala dom\u00e9stica, humana. O espa\u00e7o da loja de rua transformado em espa\u00e7o expositivo se aproxima muito mais da sala de uma casa comum do que do cubo branco das galerias de arte e museus.<\/p>\n<p>O t\u00edtulo da mostra tamb\u00e9m faz refer\u00eancia ao espa\u00e7o mais \u00edntimo de um artista: seu ateli\u00ea. O ateli\u00ea como espa\u00e7o vazio, como lugar de experi\u00eancia. Tanto Animal (2015) quanto Fenestra (2015) deixam o processo de sua realiza\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 mostra. Aqui o processo \u00e9 a obra. A escultura cin\u00e9tica que ocupa o centro da galeria \u00e9 feita de pe\u00e7as, m\u00f3dulos. \u00c9 um trabalho que parte de uma unidade simples que multiplicada, combinada e recombinada pelo artista revela sua complexidade em diferentes possibilidades de estrutura final.<\/p>\n<p>Tamb\u00e9m nas pinturas convivem princ\u00edpios aparentemente conflitantes. Foi olhando para um desenho, gr\u00e1fico, que fez em seu ateli\u00ea &#8211; composto pela repeti\u00e7\u00e3o de ret\u00e2ngulos e linhas formadas pelos espa\u00e7os entre eles -, que o artista reconheceu ali a imagem de uma janela. E a partir da\u00ed come\u00e7ou a prestar mais aten\u00e7\u00e3o nas janelas do mundo. Esse \u00e9 o caminho inverso ao que opera quase toda a produ\u00e7\u00e3o de Mour\u00e3o. Ela n\u00e3o costuma se dar de dentro (do ateli\u00ea) para fora (no mundo) e sim com algo do mundo, que \u00e9 levado para dentro do ateli\u00ea &#8211; como aconteceu com a s\u00e9rie Grades, que partiu da percep\u00e7\u00e3o do artista sobre as grades de seguran\u00e7a que come\u00e7aram a ocupar o Rio de Janeiro nos anos 1980. Um dos s\u00edmbolos da fal\u00eancia da pol\u00edtica de seguran\u00e7a p\u00fablica na cidade come\u00e7ou a ser usado pelo artista como material de trabalho.<\/p>\n<p>Aqui, nas janelas de Raul Mour\u00e3o, a grade minimalista composta por linhas retas verticais e horizontais que se cruzam em \u00e2ngulos ortogonais, que \u00e9 ponto de partida do trabalho, perde sua impessoalidade e precis\u00e3o ao ser constru\u00edda \u00e0 m\u00e3o. O mesmo acontece com os ret\u00e2ngulos, unidade b\u00e1sica dessas pinturas: essas formas geom\u00e9tricas, id\u00eanticas, repetidas indefinidamente, v\u00e3o ganhando individualidade com o desgaste da tinta, os erros de alinhamento e outros &#8220;acidentes&#8221; que acontecem no meio do processo de realiza\u00e7\u00e3o do trabalho. Essas altera\u00e7\u00f5es produzem uma perturba\u00e7\u00e3o visual, uma tens\u00e3o entre o que deveria ser abstrato e o que passa a insinuar uma figura.<\/p>\n<p>Su Casa \u00e9 uma exposi\u00e7\u00e3o sobre a d\u00favida, sobre as infinitas possibilidades de ver (o mundo, a obra); sobre o exerc\u00edcio de (se) colocar em d\u00favida, de se abrir, pelo menos em pensamento, para outras possibilidades. \u00c9 como se and\u00e1ssemos por ela nos perguntando a todo momento: &#8220;E se?&#8221;, &#8220;Tem certeza?&#8221;. E este \u00e9 o car\u00e1ter verdadeiramente pol\u00edtico da arte: nos tirar de nossa zona de conforto, de nossa passividade e certeza cotidianas, e nos abrir a possibilidade de ver o mundo de uma maneira diferente.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fernanda Lopes <\/b>\u00e9 cr\u00edtica de arte e curadora, doutoranda em Hist\u00f3ria e Cr\u00edtica de Arte na EBA|UFRJ. Autora dos livros \u00c1rea Experimental &#8211; \u00e1rea experimental lugar espa\u00e7o dimens\u00e3o (Bolsa de Est\u00edmulo \u00e0 Produ\u00e7\u00e3o Cr\u00edtica &#8211; Minc\/Funarte, 2012) e A Experi\u00eancia Rex: \u00c9ramos o time do Rei (Pr\u00eamio de Artes Pl\u00e1sticas Marcantonio Vila\u00e7a &#8211; FUNARTE, 2009). 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