The Landscape project started in 2018 with the idea to express itself as a reset of the classic academic landscape painting exercise for the representation of a wide and careful composition of natural bodies in various geographic, chromatic and climacteric contexts, where human or artificial structures where, sometimes, also included.
The intention is to remove the term “scenic” and two-dimensional aspects from this artistic expression, updating it to a contemporary context, with four dimensions, leading the viewer to witness this landscape, this “frame” as a real and natural physical space.
Thus, we no longer integrate an individual graphic interpretation, but evolving to a full experience with a tectonic reaction that encompasses multiple perceptions and interpretations.
We are now inside a limitless space for art, and we unconsciously enhance our abilities to perceive space without Cartesian references.
Landscape is an “homage” to nature as new perceptual exercise created through the insertion of a disruptive artificial element. All of the installations are temporary and all materials used for the construction of the pieces are reused from waste of cinema decor industry.
Through this construction, the artist reveals his imaginary, and the viewer his perception.
Form, scale, color - search for configurations without equivalents in the natural environment, to establish a new scenic dimension that provides the observer with a different reading and experience of the landscape, with the main purpose to promote awareness and appreciation of both.
It is a moment of contrast between reality and illusion, organic and geometric, natural and artificial.
The idea is to expand the Landscape project to other territories with a new process of investigation and installation, with the intent to record as maximum landscapes as possible.

Landscape Series

“Bright Hour ” aims to be an exercise with more intrinsic relationship with the viewer, in a scale and an architectural link of abstract expression representing a geometrical and minimal shape of a piece of the sky, the magnanimous, imaterial an natural presence.
The work seeks to assume itself as a geometric experience of space and time in which the visual perception of the work cannot be separated from the bodily presence.
This experience is directly associated with the minimalist and abstract form in which the work aims to be presented - a material format and an “immaterial” format designed by light that transports between two-dimensional and three-dimensional relationships.

Bright Hour Series

The “Portrait Series” are a developmente of the same concept as the “Landscape” and “HOME” series but the natural element in this project is not in fact a context nor a natural surrounding, but the “element” that created the term “artifical”, the human.
This strange, yet, more direct contact with the human body creates a sugestion for a geomatric alteration of itself, and therefore, has a performative presence. It assumes itself as a memorisation of geometry by nature in an organic state.
The Illustration made by the artist in his earlier studies (2011) of the artificial shapes in human bodies.
The attempt is to ilustrate the evolution of the body in a utopic, geometric, non-organic, futuristic evolution.
Organic bodies wil assume geometric shapes.


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Pedro Gramaxo