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Encontro Marcado

Recorrente a Madame
Recarrier e suas inquietações

Baú Marítimo

Coroa de Louros

Banho de Luzes

O ontem me visitou hoje.

Sólidos e Suspensos.

Distensor de muros.

Kings Monement, Tables Movement, Plans in Movement.

Krieg and Frieden

Windlich Landschaft

Hunderten kompassen, Hunderten richtiyen

Identidades e Formas

Fiance

"Schlefkopfen" 

Adriane Guimarães by Ute Hermmans

Can the world be precisely explained by instrument? If the instrument measures accurately. Kif this is this case, what is the resulting message? With her work, Adriane Guimarães thought about questions for some time to arrive at the following answers: when Captain Phipps, Lord Mulgrave, sailed in the 16th century under the british flag to the North Pole, he noted that his compass showed many different results in a short period of time. He associated this fact to the strong magnetism of the North pole and commented: “The compass variations which have always been an interesting theme for navigators and philosophers occurred in a mysterious way during this trip when we were approaching the north Pole. “This comment is fundamental for “100 compasses. 100 directions” On top of table there are 100 compasses that point to one direction and at the same time to 100 other directions. Photos of Dutch navigation compasses of the 16th century are an integral part of installation and show that search for precision and accountability have a historical dimension. There is not just one course but apparently the direction seems to be the same. The result of this installation is a new departure under different conditions. In “Landscapes of wind” there is reference to a long trip to the understanding of oneself: 400 geographic measures are distributed in four different plans which are tables, and these instruments can change places according to the spectators attitude. So being, the spectator gives the object a new sense. Hence, the spectator participates in the process of a constant change. This also happens when he learns how see himself from various angles conditioned by history. Can contemporary man distinguish in himself today, the role of the man of the time of the great discoveries, in which mediation of space conditioned men’s way of thinking? Maybe he withdraws from these thoughts to look at himself introspectively, to discover his potential and his patch? Man situated in space and time is searching for a direction. He will choose one of the instruments, and will take it in his journey. The journey in search for a direction, to find himself as an individual and his relationship with collectivity, will be broached in the installation “common space” North, south, east, west, will the the cardinal points say anything about man’s vision of himself? Is it true that each glance and that it reflects a person’s one angle only, it divides him? But the division shows that we are exposed. In this opening we are not alone, we are not only the world, but we are part of it. If it is possible to move, we change an individual path for a collective path. Dialog with the diving/wall/transparent is just the beginning: for the Adriane Guimarães everything begins with the sculpture. 

UTE HERMMANS

Common Space

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