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Delson Uchôa
Text by Agnaldo Farias, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti.
Delson Uchôa is one of the most original painters on the contemporary art scene, both in Brazil and internationally. His enormous works capture the light and vivid colors of Brazil's most extreme regions. On the occasion of Uchôa's exhibition in the Brazilian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, this volume explores his work through photographs, a critical essay and an in-depth interview.
FROM THE BOOK
"Delson Uchoa's painting reinstates the dignity expressed by the human capacity to bring
together and weave loose threads, which is equivalent to drawing expansion and force from something that is linear and fragile. In the case of our artist, the loose threads take part in diverse experiments, in the specific times of everything that he has seen, and that in his painting is presented in the convergence of color lines, arranged side-by-side, vertically or horizontally, or crisscrossing orthogonally to define territories, color fields and light fields that resonates with the
environment. In his paintings, the colorful threads--which are referred to in this way because to a large extent they are produced with pigments diluted in acrylic resin and applied linearly--are as thick as blood vessels and seem to retain something of the gestures that created them. They are also irregular; they undulate in a gentle manner that the ruler, and even more so the machine, are incapable of."
Agnaldo Farias, excerpted from Experimenting with Light in Delson Uchoa.
FORMAT: Hbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 120 pgs / 62 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $49.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $60 ISBN: 9788881587469 PUBLISHER: Charta AVAILABLE: 2/28/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: No longer our product AVAILABILITY: Not available
Published by Charta. Text by Agnaldo Farias, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti.
Delson Uchôa is one of the most original painters on the contemporary art scene, both in Brazil and internationally. His enormous works capture the light and vivid colors of Brazil's most extreme regions. On the occasion of Uchôa's exhibition in the Brazilian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, this volume explores his work through photographs, a critical essay and an in-depth interview.
