MACAPARANA REJOINS WITH PRIMITIVISM IN CASADO SANTAPAU
Macaparana (b. José Souza Oliveira Filho, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1952) can find in his work a clear link with primitivism and African art or, at least, in the development and influence in the aesthetic and structural aspects of the same. It might seem something totally alien, given that the basic theoretical principles of the languages of concrete art that emerge without regard in his proposal seem to delve more into the aseptic of geometric forms than in the anthropological and sacred of ethnic art, but the relationship exists precisely because of a heritage raised from the geometric as an identity.
Of course, from the principle of thought and theory to their materialization in reality may be quite distant. However, the work proposed by Casado Santapau in Macaparana: opus.2 to strengthen that encounter retakes that link between the artist and his references in primitive art, and does so with the collaboration of the African art gallery Angel Martin, a reference in the Spanish market for the promotion and dissemination of primitive art. This meeting is not at all forced either. Nevertheless, Macaparana is an avid collector of both African and South American ethnic art, so the invisible guide in this exhibition seems to have been drawn beforehand.
Thus, works of a formal and paradigmatic character by the Brazilian are arranged in confrontation (or, rather, complemented) with original pieces of enormous aesthetic and anthropological value of African art, from masks to utensils and engravings, in which the viewer can trace, with astonishing ease, the origin of the proposals on display. The dialogue to which the works are subjected translates into a point to the importance of balance or tension, of an almost sacred birth of the style and language that was most undertaken since neo-concretism.
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Imagen de la exposición Macaparana: opus.2 en Casado Santapau Gallery
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Imagen de la exposición de Macaparana: opus.2 en la Galería Casado Santapau
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Imagen de la exposición de Macaparana: opus.2 en la Galería Casado Santapau
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Imagen de la exposición de Macaparana: opus.2 en la Galería Casado Santapau
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Imagen de la exposición de Macaparana: opus.2 en la Galería Casado Santapau
For this reason, Macaparana always alludes to geometry, and even endows it with volume to address the non-object of neo-concretism and to establish the relationship between a tremendously universalist movement historiographically derived from an example of Brazilian modernity with a centuries-old tradition that converge in the treatment of space and matter, as well as the enormous instrumental possibilities of a set that also addresses the aesthetic, the functional and the sacred.
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Imagen de la exposición de Macaparana: opus.2 en la Galería Casado Santapau
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Imagen de la exposición de Macaparana: opus.2 en la Galería Casado Santapau
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Imagen de la exposición de Macaparana: opus.2 en la Galería Casado Santapau
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Imagen de la exposición de Macaparana: opus.2 en la Galería Casado Santapau
Macaparana: opus.2 can be seen until February 15 at Casado Santapau, Piamonte, 10, Madrid (Spain).
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