P R E S S – R E L E A S E
The Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the Universidade Nova
de Lisboa [Lisbon, Portugal] and the Documentation Centre and Library of the Campus of Caparica present
Installation
Drawings
July 8 to August 29 2008
THE EXHIBITION
Fifteen drawings and an installation occupy the whole exhibition area of the Library of the Campus of the FCT in Monte de Caparica.
Mário Caeiro – director of Lisbon Capital of Nothing and Luzboa – International Biennale on the Theme of Light [www.luzboa.com] – is here for the first time the curator of a solo exhibition. The exhibition articulates both sculptural and graphic dimensions, presenting the recent development of Bruno Jamaica's work. The works – namely the central piece, unite these two languages – Sculpture and Drawing – in a mode of spatial occupation that, behind a relatively conventional setting, playfully defies conventions.
The main piece is a large scale sculpture, made of digital black and white prints and elastic bands – stretched in situ, across the whole space of the exhibition room –, resulting in a progressive occupation of the space of the Library by the vision and the body of the artist.
The whole installation process was filmed by filmmaker Ricardo Reis, being the result the first documentary about the specificity of Jamaica's work, which is at the same time simple and intelligent, implying both complex reasonings and a humble approach to knowledge.
THE SPACE
The exhibition room of the Library of the Campus of Caparica is a generous space of great potentiality, an area of 350m2 and the height of 8 meters, a cubic volume that each new intervention is invited to turn into a different experience. Since its opening is has hosted a dynamic programme of activities, namely in the field of contemporary art.
THE ARTIST
http://bm81.blospot.com
Bruno Ricardo Lavos Marques was born in 1981, in Carvide, Leiria. Lives between Caldas da Rainha and London – where he is since 2008 the assistant of sculptor Zadok Ben-David, with whom he often travels to Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal. He is best known as Bruno Jamaica.
THE CURATOR
Mário Caeiro Director of Luzboa 2004 and 2006 – International Biennale on the Theme of Light. Diploma in Design; Master in German Literature; Post-graduate studies in Urban Design. Since 2004: Teaching position at the University of Applied Studies ESAD in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Since 2000, president of Extra]muros[ cultural association for the city. In 2005, Award for Sciences of Arts and Literature by the French Ambassade for his merits of the cultural life of Lisbon as a designer, teacher and chairman of the Extra]muros[ Association.
Referential Work
2004-06 Portugal, Lisbon, Luzboa – Bienal Internacional da Luz
2002-03 Portugal, Lisbon, Sinais – a Cidade Habitada
2001 Portugal, Lisbon, Lisboa Capital do Nada – Marvila 2001
COLOPHON
Direction of the Library
Prof. José Moura
Curator
Mário Caeiro
Documental vídeo
Ricardo Reis
Production
Centro de Documentação e Biblioteca da FCT/UNL, Ana Alves Pereira, Anabela Seita
Collaboration Jorge Filipe Correia Maciel, Inês Ribeiro, Tiago Neto e Luís Simões
Acknowledgements João Ribeiro, Vítor Pinto da Fonseca
Special acknowledgement
www.idepa.pt
Support
OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION
The Library is open Mondays to Fridays from 9:00AM TO 8:00PM
Centro de Documentação e Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/UNL
Phone: 21 294 78 29 /Ext: 15701
Fax: 21 294 83 47
Quinta da Torre
E-mail: anabela.seita@fct.unl.pt
2829-516 Caparica
PORTUGAL
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Like a line that defines a route, that traces an itinerary, that establishes a mouvement. Our world is constituted by lines. Everything is connected with everything else. Everything is intertwingled. Everything is sequential. Everything that moves, from the snail to the lava flux, leaves a track, a trace of its passage. A line can be the destiny, a compromise, a fact, a relation, a place.
Richard Long
IMAGES OF THE INSTALLATION
http://bm81.blogspot.com
Photo by Tiago Neto