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Contact(s) // level of communication

Diogo Pimentão

RocioSantaCruz, Barcelona

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Title
Contact(s) // level of communication
Gallery
RocioSantaCruz, Barcelona
Year
2019
Duration
16 min 47 s

In Diogo Pimentão’s work the movement towards drawing is the starting point. Thismovement is a built up manifested by volume, objects, sound, video or performance. The medium of video has been one of these means of research for about a decade. Searching through graphic explorations is more important than finding. Contact(s) // level of communication, 2019, created for LOOP, brings together anew version of a video work from 2011 which he revisited for sixth times. It is a crucial workwhere the body and the image test their limits and draw a space together. Pimentão’s work is usually a way to probe the space of the exhibition and to re-create by the sametoken. Contact(s) // level of communication plays with the setting of a private, intimatespace harbouring another kind of speculative space, that of video. A screen is an empty, activated, space. An empty space is a volume filled, like a a room. Diogo Pimentão presents avideo of a body jumping and falling turnedinto a bidimensional sculpture, momentarily, since the sound of breathing and effortreminds us that bodies live, inhabit and interact in and with spaces. Contact(s) // level of communication is a diptych, two video “objects” that communicate with each otherthrough the spectator.

Diogo Pimentão

Artist

1973, Lisboa

Diogo  Pimentão

Diogo Pimentão currently lives and works in London. Best known for his experimental works on paper, he received his art education at Ar.Co., Lisbon, Portugal, 1998; Sculpture Seminar, Gotland, Sweden, 1996; and Centro Internacional de Escultura, Pêro Pinheiro, Portugal, 1995. Using mainly paper and graphite, at times in combination with charcoal, wood and concrete, Diogo Pimentão constructs forms that complicate the categorical boundaries between drawing and sculpture. His works on paper are formed from lengthy strips of the material that have been shaded with graphite; this thoroughly applied mineral imparts the surface with a metallic sheen. These shimmery sheets are then folded and layered to form structures that appear to be composed of welded metal as opposed to pencil and paper. By transforming paper and graphite into sculptures that appear composed of iron or steel, Pimentão demonstrates the expansive potential of drawing-based media. Works by Diogo Pimentão are included in the collections of Fonds National d’art Contemporain, Paris; Pomeranz Collection, Vienna; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the European Central Bank. He currently lives and works in London.

Last update: November 13th, 2019.