“LOGRADOURO” MARCOS CHAVES 

 

Blanca Soto Arte presents for the first time in Spain the work of the artist Marcos Chaves (Brazil, 1961).

The work of Marcos Chaves tries to build a new ethic for the world of forms. An attempt to make the universe of art reflect and be capable of speculating about the meaning of the world, its logic, its conventions and its absurdities. Appropriating banal objects, codes typical of mass consumption, architecture and even the urban scene, the artist starts from things and signs already assimilated by convention or habit to inject other, surprising meanings into them. and unexpected. Following in the footsteps of the Dadaists and Duchamp, Marcos Chaves follows the vein of these deviations as a way of intervening in the functional or conventional order of objects and behaviors. With ironic and humorous interferences, the artist destabilizes the viewer, denying him the basis of what he thinks he knows and masters, showing him another side of objects, shapes and materials that at first seem vulgar.

 

 

Marcos Chaves lends an artistic function and gives volumetry and monumentality to ordinary and simple materials, such as the black and yellow tapes used in urban signage, which, in addition to the sense of direction and order in everyday life, are used by the artist with a conflicting sense that causes disorientation and visual turbulence, blurring the original limits of the space and stripping the viewer of any point of horizon and balance. Without spatial reference, the viewer finds in the imbalance and vertigo the estrangement of his own place in the world, now stripped of the rules and signs that make it up. However, despite this destabilizing sense, the work's principle is the constructive drawing of lines and colors, following guidelines that, at least a priori, start from precise and geometric coordinates, which, in truth, constitutes its paradox and richness. .

 

 

For the realization of this press release, the text “Logradouro” by Ligia Canongia has been used 10/21/2005