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Pintura de parede, 2013                                    
                 
             
            
               
             
                
                 The Wall Painting series consists of the construction of a type of mural painting carried out during the period of an artistic residency, with the worn sandpaper used to paint the walls of my residence-studio.

                There is a sort of “mirroring” in the work not only due to the folds made on each of the sandpaper sheets – for their use and friction on the surface of the painted walls –, but also the mirroring referring to the idea of ​​residences under renovation and construction in real time. The building of the artistic residency related to the moment in which the work Wall Painting was being done was under construction, in the process of being restored, at the same time as my residence-house. There is, then, in the construction of this painting, a kind of transplantation of surfaces.

                 The operations of removing and adding paint from the friction of each of these abrasive sheets – the sandpaper – with the surface of the walls are also evident in their more or less worn surfaces, as well as from the creases and folds related to the optimization of their parts, and which geometrically constitute a grid.

                The work also presents in its physical evidence a confusion that seems to leave a question in suspense: what is painting and work in this work? Wall painting, the surface of the painted architectural wall, the surface of the painting of a more gestural nature constructed by the expressive stains present on the worn, torn, punctured, creased, exfoliated and rubbed surfaces of sandpaper?
               
                Um comentário sobre pintura.

Thiago Honório, February 2014.
                 
               

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