Exhibition
Rodrigo Sassi | in between |
3 Feb 2015 – 24 Feb 2015
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Address
- Rue Lebeau 43
- Sablon
- Brussels
Brussels - 1000
- Belgium
The fruit of a 6-month residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, In Between is Part One of Rodrigo Sassi’s first European solo exhibition: London 3 – 24 February and Paris 19 March – 18 April 2015 at MDM Gallery
About
The title of the exhibition, In Between alludes in part to Rodrigo’s recent geographical movements (São Paulo, London, Paris) and the influences of these places on his work and development as an artist, as well as being a direct reference to the making of the sculptures, such as using concrete “in between” sheets of plywood found around the places that he make his works, characterizing this work as a mix between the brazilian building way and the influences and material provided from these places, in this case London
Seen fresh for the first time, there appears to be something incomplete about Rodrigo Sassi's sculptures. However, rather than this being an error or a problem, it is a manifestation of how elements of sculpture can be presented to the contemporary world. Open, splaying, inviting gestural structures, point to a fluid approach to shape, a subtle dialogue with architecture, enviroment and the freedom of the contemporary art.
There is a sense of something about to appear, but it is either never shown in its entirety, or it evades the finished form in which we are accustomed to seeing sculpture or installation. This is unquestionably a condition of how art perceives and understands a fractured, abject, cruel, and yet also fragile and dynamic, world that is criss-crossed by torrents of information, often lost in translation.
Starting from architecture, urban setting and construction process references, his work links these areas to the visual arts through the creation of formwork for reinforced concrete, manifested with a range of building techniques, which creates its own architecture and activates the space. The sculptures are made using discarded wood found at construction sites and the apparent marks of wear in the materials are due to their previous use. The wood and its marks became part of the composition and speak to the process of the work,
from the collection of the used materials to their transformation into a new work of reinforced concrete, a sculpture without functionality. In the end, these abstract forms contrast the brutality and rigidity of their materials (wood and concrete) with the feeling of lightness provided by curves and lines drawn in space.
