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Making minimalist grammar territorial, Manuel Carmo appropriates the image, purifies it and transforms it into
signs through evanescent gestural graphics of lyrical abstraction. He creates a new universe of recognition
between the intellectual and emotional, like the architect who finds in painting the form of expression, he is the
man who acts as catalyst to space in all its energy and irreverence, paradoxically expressed not by the sign
of geometric precision but by the marking/tearing, before our very eyes, of the body/sphere where all spheres
of all private cults are annexed.
Fascinated by space, he paints architecture in its abstract geometry. Architecture with the rhythms of voids that rehearse movements that have already been shaped in Piet Mondrian’s neo-plasticism, where harmony is conditioned to the application of rigorously abstract and geometric linear forms, not through linear orthogonality, but rather through its organic/gesturality and the monochromatic treatment of surfaces. In contrast, however, the architectural spatiality of Manuel Carmo, although it uses a balance of equivalence, where beauty is defined the articulation of the horizontal and vertical undulating lines, it is here rather more evolving, recreating a new figurative universe.
Júlio Quaresma |
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