Carlos Nogueira
04 Oct - 27 Dec 2014
CARLOS NOGUEIRA
On the nature of things all comes to an end
4 October – 27 December 2014
Curator: Miguel Wandschneider
Since the mid-1970s, the artistic practice of Carlos Nogueira (Mozambique, 1947) has undergone a process of constant change and renewal, but without any breaks or discontinuities, using and sometimes combining different means of expression, from performance to installation, from drawing to painting, and increasingly sculpture. Forever underlying his work has been the search for a completeness in which the sensitive and the intelligible, the visible and the invisible, the ephemeral and the permanent, the sacred (transcendence) and the profane (the common and the everyday) become joined together and interrelate with one another. Two years after a fairly comprehensive retrospective at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Modern Art Centre, Carlos Nogueira presents us with his new piece, one which revisits and synthesises the vocabulary, grammar and poetry of his forty-year work, and which is materialised as a repository of objects (materials and forms) that have inhabited the artist's house or studio.
On the nature of things all comes to an end
4 October – 27 December 2014
Curator: Miguel Wandschneider
Since the mid-1970s, the artistic practice of Carlos Nogueira (Mozambique, 1947) has undergone a process of constant change and renewal, but without any breaks or discontinuities, using and sometimes combining different means of expression, from performance to installation, from drawing to painting, and increasingly sculpture. Forever underlying his work has been the search for a completeness in which the sensitive and the intelligible, the visible and the invisible, the ephemeral and the permanent, the sacred (transcendence) and the profane (the common and the everyday) become joined together and interrelate with one another. Two years after a fairly comprehensive retrospective at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Modern Art Centre, Carlos Nogueira presents us with his new piece, one which revisits and synthesises the vocabulary, grammar and poetry of his forty-year work, and which is materialised as a repository of objects (materials and forms) that have inhabited the artist's house or studio.