Hubert Marot and Pedro Matos at Bid Project

Artists: Hubert Marot and Pedro Matos

Exhibition title: Where there’s something hiding beneath the surface

Curated by: Domenico de Chirico

Venue: Bid Project, Milan, Italy

Date: November 5 – 30, 2015

Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Bid Project, Milan

Hubert Marot’s work is a transormation of the principles of images. Imprint is the basis for the artist’s gesture which declines, in his works of photographic prints, cyanotypes on canvas, emulsions on glass or casts, the various techniques of development, printing, and reproduction. Shape, cut out, pasted, borrowed, printed, structures a whole work dedicated to the process. Inventing the chemistry which will make visible the line, the crease, the curve on a canvas or in matter itself, creating the intensity of a perfect colour, allowing mixture and pattern to set on glass or duplicating the image from a Polaroid: each composition is architected to reveal, in the light of passing time, its own efects of texture, volume, transparency, thickness.

Pedro Matos chooses to explore lines, trying to give to light that same lyric and beauty of their symbolic complexity and meaning. With the prevalent use of linen canvases, the artist manually intervenes with absolute accuracy and an attentive visual slightness. Metaphorically, studying the vertex of human action on nature, destructive and constructive in the same time, intervenes with a gestural celerity that countersigns the works’ transformation. Conceptually can be similar to the urban culture or to the grafti’s street style and the cut-up in advertisement. As an abstraction, he manipulates immaterial shapes imagined with levity, creating new semantic frontiers.