Pocket Landscape

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A landscape made only of essential elements occupies the exhibition space of Galeria Millan during Otavio Schipper’s solo show. Four line segments – rails sitting directly on the floor and two poles connected to the local power grid – compose this Pequena Paisagem [Pocket Landscape], the title of this exhibition that, according to the artist, could well be called  “landscape without a landscape.”

The simplicity of Schipper’s installation brings us to the Cartesian plane: the rails and poles can be the x and y axes of a graph, transfiguring the exhibition space into geometric space, the area of mathematical abstraction and rationalization. The construction of the installation which uses elements that symbolize the first two industrial revolutions, points to processes of scientific development that Western societies have experienced in modernity, a break that disenchanted the world, dominated by utilitarian and teleological understandings of progress.

Pequena Paisagem creates a relationship between the inside and the outside: in addition to the gallery being occupied with elements that should be in external spaces, these objects are functional and actually bring energy from other poles situated on street. If, on the one hand, the transmission introduces ideas as flow and communication, the installa-tion maintains a melancholic dimension. For the artist, the work “evokes the image of the city that spreads and invades the private space, of the energy that is present anywhere in the universe, of the impossibility of isolation.” The need to be connected suffocates the space of subjectivity amid the noise of the world.

Galeria Millan
Rua Fradique Coutinho, 1360
05416-001 São Paulo
Brazil
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http://www.galeriamillan.com.br

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Pocket Landscape Galeria Millan Main address: Galeria Millan Rua Fradique Coutinho, 1360 05416-001 São Paulo, Brazil Galeria Millan Rua Fradique Coutinho, 1360 05416-001 São Paulo, Brazil

A landscape made only of essential elements occupies the exhibition space of Galeria Millan during Otavio Schipper’s solo show. Four line segments – rails sitting directly on the floor and two poles connected to the local power grid – compose this Pequena Paisagem [Pocket Landscape], the title of this exhibition that, according to the artist, could well be called  “landscape without a landscape.”

The simplicity of Schipper’s installation brings us to the Cartesian plane: the rails and poles can be the x and y axes of a graph, transfiguring the exhibition space into geometric space, the area of mathematical abstraction and rationalization. The construction of the installation which uses elements that symbolize the first two industrial revolutions, points to processes of scientific development that Western societies have experienced in modernity, a break that disenchanted the world, dominated by utilitarian and teleological understandings of progress.

Pequena Paisagem creates a relationship between the inside and the outside: in addition to the gallery being occupied with elements that should be in external spaces, these objects are functional and actually bring energy from other poles situated on street. If, on the one hand, the transmission introduces ideas as flow and communication, the installa-tion maintains a melancholic dimension. For the artist, the work “evokes the image of the city that spreads and invades the private space, of the energy that is present anywhere in the universe, of the impossibility of isolation.” The need to be connected suffocates the space of subjectivity amid the noise of the world.

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