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.
Hubert Marot, Dazzling, 2015
Hubert Marot, Dazzling, 2015 (detail)
Hubert Marot, Untitled (Gova II), 2015
Hubert Marot, Untitled (Gova III), 2015
Hubert Marot, Untitled (Gova IV), 2015
Hubert Marot, The Marble Warbles, 2015
Hubert Marot, The Marble Warbles, 2015 (detail)
Hubert Marot, Apnea, 2015
Hubert Marot, Apnea, 2015 (detail)
Hubert Marot, On se réveillait tôt, 2015
Hubert Marot, On se réveillait tôt, 2015 (detail)
Hubert Marot, Untitled (Gova I), 2015
Hubert Marot, Twinkling, 2015
Hubert Marot, Twinkling, 2015 (detail)
Hubert Marot, She caught a glimpse, 2015
Hubert Marot, She caught a glimpse, 2015 (detail)
Pedro Matos, After all… it’s just a trick. Yes, it’s just a trick, 2015
Pedro Matos, They’re the best because they don’t go nowhere, 2015
Pedro Matos, Therefore… Let this novel begin, 2015
Pedro Matos, You ought to see her, 2015
Pedro Matos, The Saint won’t even notice, 2015
Pedro Matos, August is coming to but end and September is not arriving, 2015
Pedro Matos, I Didn’t find it, 2015
Pedro Matos, Silence and Sentiment, 2015
Pedro Matos, Fainter and Fainter, 2015
Pedro Matos, Fainter and Fainter, 2015 (detail)
Pedro Matos, In that moment of not pretending, 2015
Pedro Matos, In that moment of not pretending, 2015 (detail)
