Fernando Calhau : o espaço, o tempo e a noite

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Mafalda Lopes
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/17703
• topic: Calhau, Fernando, 1948-2002; Pintura; Arte conceptual; Minimalismo; Monocromático; Espaço; Tempo; Noite; Sublime

Since very early, Fernando Calhau develops a singular artistic path marked by the idea of order, rigor and construction. In a closed context, the artist is interested in the minimal proposals, namely the primacy of questions related to spatiality, the relation between scale and architecture, the refusal, or at least a certain “erasure” of the artistic gesture in his manufacturing work, as well as the concept of object and seriality as a way of understanding the artistic process itself. Calhau reveals a fascination for mechanical reproduction processes acquired in the practice of engraving which is in accordance with the repetition of manual procedures, the gesture of repeating, indicating an obsession with doing. A clear poetic dimension also emerges from his work, first with the sea images, later with the romantic poetry of the night, turning it to the monochromatic black. With this combination of interests, to which we can add the conceptual understanding of art as a tautology, Fernando Calhau demonstrates his own understanding of the plastic arts procedures