Description
Title: Complexidade II
Date of completion of the work: 2012
Technique: Mixed / Acrylic on linen cloth.
Dimensions: 150 x 100 x 4cm
The works Complexity II and III belong to the series “Complexities” which is composed of five works in linen canvas, with the same dimensions.
The sharply vertical rectangle has been specially designed for this series in order to enhance the composition. Although the works present a very expressive and complex composition, they are born of a compositional structure of division of the space in six squares with central circumferences divided in twelve equal parts. The numbers 3, 6 and 12 follow the whole plane of the composition. This beginning had as its purpose to give birth to the work of the geometrical order, of a kind of construction plot and then proceed to its deconstruction.
This original structure is still visible in the works, giving it visual force.
The deconstruction of the initial inelastic structure is then made with the elements of the artist’s own plastic discourse, which are often less rational and less intelligible: the circle, the ovule, the spiral, the star, the ladder, the esoteric signs, the automatic writing, numbers. These elements, in a seemingly unorganized, more expressive and poetic disposition, are intended to counter the previous organization in an antithesis discourse.
The works are confronted with levels of conceptual opposition: transparency / opacity; construction / deconstruction; mechanical / organic; legible / illegible; poetic / pragmatic; connected / disconnected; rigid / flexible.
This conceptual abundance powers the core of the theme complexity or complexities, which we all feel at various times, calling on the playful and poetic memory to survive in a mechanized reality.
The formal and compositional complexity is underlined by strong and expressive colors. The verticality of the lines accentuates the dynamism of the forms and at the same time creates the sufficient balance between the tension of the main parts of the composition in a formal game that is neither clear nor definitive.
Plastic Artist: Humberta Coelho
