Sketchbook nº48, 2/2 !

Sketchbook nº48, part 2/2 !

Second part from the old buisness book that Laura found in the trash !

Just needed some acrylic sheets in some of the pages and its nice enough to be one of the best sketchbooks i ever had !

About the exhibition in Sète...!

Consegues fazer o pino sem o fazer?
In the exhibition cycle My Art Goes Boom, 21 Julliet 2018 Sète.

A title is commonly used by the spectator – the same thing applies for the artist – as a cane stick. The title creates a bridge – even if it’s to destabilize – between the artist, the work exhibited and the spectator. In this particular case, the title is an interrogation about sight and posture. It interrogates the spectator; can you do this? It’s a challenge. But it shows itself as a paradox; can you do this without doing it? Asking the spectator to think about the fundamental of the interrogation itself opposed to asking himself if he can, or can’t, do a certain thing.  So, this title only closes some paths to deepen others, whatever they may be.

The works of Laura Figueiras are embedded with a pure and joyful curiosity by someone in constant experimentation. They show an immense variety of colors and shapes that overlaps themselves in a perpetual game between what is presented and what is hidden, what is real and what is virtual. She uses the wall/table surface to play with those works to create others, positioning them with the same aim that she does in paper, highlighting this constant will of getting new possibilities to find new compositions. In the end, they similarly deliver us the same kind of depth that our so beloved computer/smartphone screen delivers us. They stand as a cycle that creates new possibilities, new surprises for the future.

For this exhibition I choose to present a series of drawing of an ongoing project; Its like trying to narrow a single drop of water while sunked in a bathtub (Est-ce que vous avez besoin d’un serveur?). One of the reasons why I shoosed to present and ongoing series, was to correspond the easiness of Joris (the person ahead of the exhibition space) who invited us via Instagram, without knowing us or our work, to make an exhibition with a six days notice.

These drawings are performances. They are performances that result in a big (several Kilometers) virtual drawings. They are fulfilled with an application that I use in my smartphone that follows me in the streets of Montpellier when I’m looking for a job. Those paths are performed by bike. Each of them is sectioned in diverse rectangles to be printed in several A4 paper sheets. Those sheets create a puzzle that disperses itself in the surfaces of the exhibition space, approaching to the track created by someone that tries to find something in a unknown town. They are big drawings performed by someone who doesn’t have an atelier to work and uses his time to make up new ways to create, (all of us create in a dayli basis, we just need to find a way to materialize it).

                In the end of the montage, we decided to put a painting made by João Gastão – a friend of us who is a Portuguese artist –, that shows a bend canvas, an introspective one, as a link to multiply and reinforce the importance of the daily process  for us, as manner to embrace the present in a perpetual way.

Kevin Claro, Montpellier 2018

Ás vezes sinto-me !

Ás vezes sinto-me.

Sinto-me… Sei lá como. Sinto-me e então sento-me para perceber bem como me sinto. Mas quando me sento faço coisas que me fazem não sentir. Então, apesar de me sentir, esqueço-me que me sinto e até deixar de estar sentado deixo de me sentir. Depois levanto-me e lembro-me que me sinto. Então pergunto-me para mim mesmo o que é suposto fazer. Não o que é suposto fazer para deixar de me sentir mas o que toda a gente faz, para sentir para mim mesmo que faço parte de uma certa maneira de ser. Assim sendo, já que tanta gente assim o é, provavelmente deixarei de me sentir como me sinto, pois ninguém se sente assim. Mas é quando tento fazer essas coisas que estas sensações me fazem sentir ainda mais assim. Aí sim sinto que é desconfortável viver nesta luta entre o sentir e o tentar não sentir para, mais tarde ou mais cedo, de uma ou de outra maneira, aperceber-me que sempre me senti assim e que apenas tentei não sentir-me fazendo coisas que toda a gente que assim não se sente faz. Assim não se sentem pois se sentissem não o fariam. Fariam coisas para deixar de assim se sentirem. Digo eu. Digo isto, sinto aquilo e faço outras coisas. Ou coisas outras. Coisas ocas. O oco não me faz sentir. Mas o sentimento é oco. Isso não faz sentido, pelo menos agora. E coisas que não fazem sentido são mais do que as que fazem pois se assim não fosse assim não me sentiria. Quero e não quero pintar. Quero e não quero. Quero porque é óbvio querer e não quero porque é óbvio. Não que seja óbvio pintar. Não sentir é que é.

Consegues fazer o pino sem o fazer?

Consegues fazer o pino sem o fazer? 

One day exhibition in Sète, ateliers Vitor Hugo, in the exhibition cycle My Art Goes Boom !

With Laura Figuerias and João Gastão !

Thanks for the opportunity Joris !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj53f-pVwaY&feature=youtu.be

Consegues fazer o pino sem o fazer? 21-7

Consegues fazer o pino sem o fazer?

Laura Figueiras / Kevin Claro

Exposition My Art Goes Boom, 

Rue Lakanal, ateliers Victor Hugo

21 Juillet, Sète.

More info: https://www.facebook.com/My-Art-Goes-Boom-1738432866446297/

Its like trying to narrow a single drop of water while sunked in a bathtub (3) !

Its like trying to narrow a single drop of water while sunked in a bathtub !

13-07-2018,

One bicycle,

121 minutes, 18900 meteres,

Livetrekker, PrtSc SysRq and Microsoft Paint,

3424 x 2200 pixels, 116 kB,

Three resumes, one answer !

Its like trying to narrow a single drop of water while sunked in a bathtub (2) !

Its like trying to narrow a single drop of water while sunked in a bathtub, nº2  !

12-07-2018,

One bicycle,

108 minutes, 18900 meteres,

Livetrekker, PrtSc SysRq and Microsoft Paint,

4336 x 4016 pixels, 3,6 MB,

Three resumes, zero answers !

One thing leads to another's (Ce n'est pas parce que la pierre est transportée différemment qu'elle ne tombe, où ne monte pas, de la même manière), 2018

One thing leads to another's. (Ce n'est pas parce que la pierre est transportée différemment qu'elle ne tombe, où ne monte, pas, de la même manière), 2018

This performance started at 14:30h on the 16th of June and It lasted until 20:53h of the next day.

The initial idea was to watch all the 75 episodes from the serie Brilliant Ideas by Bloomberg - available on youtube until this date - at once, without; drinking, eating, pooping, pissing and falling asleep. The last two were not acomplished sucessfuly. 

The performance was streamed live on my youtube account.

http://cargocollective.com/kevinclaro/One-thing-leads-to-another-s-Ce-n-est-pas-parce-que-la-pierre-est

Its like trying to narrow a single drop of water while sunked in a bathtub (1) !

Its like trying to narrow a single drop of water while sunked in a bathtub  !

08-07-2018,

One bicycle,

86 minutes, 17300 meteres,

Livetrekker, PrtSc SysRq and Microsoft Paint,

2800 x 2560 pixels, 1,2 MB,

Four resumes, zero answers !

Sketchbook Nº48, part 1/2 !

Sketchbook nº48, part 1/2 !

Laura found an old business book in the trash, i decided to paint it, cut it in half, glue some great textil to make a cover and cut it in half to have a two nice 22 x 15 cm sized skecthbook's !

I love the texture and the lines from the pages !