Fernando Lindote (Rio Grande do Sul, 1960, lives and works in Florianópolis), also participating at another individual exhibition in the city, at the Maria Antonia University Center, presents at the Galeria Nara Roesler Desenhos Antelo, a travelling exhibition that will continue onto Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis and that brings new works created between 2006 and 2008. The exhibition consists of seven drawings on paper and six oils on canvas selected by the art critic Ivo Mesquita.
The series on paper was developed from two drawings made by Lindote after the two sheets of paper (A4) were signed in white by Raúl Antelo, writer and critic Born in Argentina, professor of literature at the federal University of Santa Catarina, and a close friend of the artist, who has recently been granted a Guggenheim scholarship for a research on Marcel Duchamp.
The other works of the series, of a larger size (70 x 50 cm), have been created with various materials such as clay, lead sheets, graphite and white tape. A 5th element has been added to these materials: the signature of Raúl Antelo, collected after the making of the images. "His signature is also matter, since his thought is present in all my work".
Six Black and White oils on canvas complete the exhibition, on which Antelo's signature does not appear, but the system of imagery on paper drawings remain, sometimes referring to machines, and at other times referring to body parts and suggesting a circulation, keeping references to artists such as Duchamp and Picabia (four canvas of 100 x 100 cm and two of 50 x 70 cm). According to Ivo Mesquita, the works of this show describe the processes of a sentimental relationship, where the artist and the writer switch roles, once one assumes the speech of the other, "in a sort of a perfect loving symbiosis, as desired the surrealist machines".
Furthermore, for Mesquita, the series Desenhos Antelo, by Fernando Lindote, opens a new perspective for the artist's work. "His production has been developing through successive processes of experimentation, that range from his own body as a generator of the work experience, through graphic and sculptural gestures about the matter, the chewing and the drooling as body extroversions, to the proposal of the direct confrontation of the exhibition condition and the architectural space. In fact, his work increasingly affirms itself as a group of hybrids, made up of chewed drawings, paintings and graphisms molded in clay, handcrafted sculptures that reproduce themselves and appropriate the space as in an installation, photos that remit to paintings, common objects, accumulations. Now, with this group of drawings, Lindote reveals, within his field of references, the idea of appropriation, taking it as strategy and method, using it from several repertories for the realization of the work", explains the critic, curator of the next edition of the São Paulo International Biennial.
The trajectory of Fernando Lindote signals his passge through painting, sculpture, performance, vídeo and installation. Having been granted a Viate Foundation scholarship in 2000, the artist has been showing individually at vibrant contemporary art spaces, such as the current show at the Maria Antonia Center in São Paulo, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Curitiba, PR (Desenho/escultura, 2004), the Tomie Ohtake Institute in São Paulo, SP (Experiências com o Corpo, curated by Agnaldo Farias, 2002) and Museum Victor Meirelles in Florianópolis, SC (Muito Perto, 2002). Amongst the recent collective shows, the highliights ar: in 2006, No Olho do Outro (Centro Cultural de Espanã, Montevideo, Uruguay); in 2005, V Bienal do Mercosul (Porto Alegre, RS), O Corpo na Arte Contemporânea Brasileira (Itaú Cultural, São Paulo/SP) and Panorama da Arte Brasileira (MAM-SP).
Interview by Paula Braga, the artist speaks on his solo exhibition. Watch the video:
