Corpos Celestes - ANGELA DETANICO / RAFAEL LAIN

About

started with the names of faraway stars situated in three constellations: Aquila, Sagitta and Equuleus. The names Alshain, Libertas, Altair, Tarazed, Okab, from the first; Sansuna, Sham and Uruk, from the second; and Kitalpha, from the third, were converted in a font called Helvetica Concentrated. This font was developed by the artists in collaboration with Jiri Skala, in 2003. Each Helvetica letter is placed within a circle whose dimension varies depending on the amount of ink needed for its printing. This way, there is a correspondence between the roman alphabet written in Helvetica to different circles that depend on the printed area of each letter. The circles can be combined and when overlapped with different opacities, they define a group with the letters of each word, so to each group of overlapped circles corresponds a word. In 2007, Detanico and Lain made a series of digital prints titled Star Names, based on the names of the stars visible to the naked eye listed by Ptolemy in the Almagest. The way they were composed on the walls of Galeria Vera Cortês, in 2015, in the exhibition sobre o céu, showed an organized dispersion, close to the distances and relative orientations of these stars in the firmament.