Boese, Brion e Tecedeiro -  Centro de Artes e Cultura, Ponte de Sôr, Portugal

Opening: 17. 03. 2018

Duration: 17. 03.  -  19. 05.2018

Participating artists: Pedro Boese, Martim Brion, André Tecedeiro

(…) Boese presents us with a site-specific work made for one of the corners of the exhibition room, composed by six canvases all with the same dimensions. The pattern initiated by the painter completes itself, inevitably, on the mind of the viewer, providing a sensation of order and coherence. The viewer perceives, first the pattern with his retina and completes it with his mind. The complementarity between what is painted and what is perceived is one of the characteristics of Boese’s rhythmic and modular work, which tends to present an incomplete structure that at the same time guides the eye of the viewer in defined directions. Structured around contrasting colours and balanced geometrical shapes, it renders explicit what is implicit. This is one of the principles of Gestalt’s psychological theory, which argues that the perception through the retina is not the same as the cerebral one and that everyone tends to organize forms under a unified and coherent logic. This structuring tendency is the basis for our acknowledgment of the constellations and is also one of the fundamental elements in Boese’s work. The pattern’s rhythm is regular, satisfying our necessity for order, but is left open, questioning the pre-established geometry. (…)

Text: Laura Sequeira Falé - abstract from an essay.

Curator: Martim Brion