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Lehmann gallery is pleased to present Law of the Land, the second solo exhibition by artist João Vasco Paiva (1979, Coimbra, Portugal) at the gallery.
The original text by Ricardo Escarduça, which accompanies the exhibition, offers valuable insight—above all—into João Vasco Paiva’s working methods and the ways in which he interrogates the nature and materiality of his practice. Escarduça proposes an approach to the artist’s work through the concept of “subtraction,” understood both as the act of removing elements to avoid the obvious (“semiotic notoriety”) and as an exploration of the unknown (“auscultating” the potential of matter). These two dimensions converge in a singular way of relating to the world—one that simultaneously draws the artist closer to, and distances him from, his surroundings, always leaving something yet to be discovered.
Regarding Law of the Land, Escarduça observes that the artist focuses on “instruments”—ranging from simple...More
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Lehmann gallery is pleased to present Law of the Land, the second solo exhibition by artist João Vasco Paiva (1979, Coimbra, Portugal) at the gallery.
The original text by Ricardo Escarduça, which accompanies the exhibition, offers valuable insight—above all—into João Vasco Paiva’s working methods and the ways in which he interrogates the nature and materiality of his practice. Escarduça proposes an approach to the artist’s work through the concept of “subtraction,” understood both as the act of removing elements to avoid the obvious (“semiotic notoriety”) and as an exploration of the unknown (“auscultating” the potential of matter). These two dimensions converge in a singular way of relating to the world—one that simultaneously draws the artist closer to, and distances him from, his surroundings, always leaving something yet to be discovered.
Regarding Law of the Land, Escarduça observes that the artist focuses on “instruments”—ranging from simple...More
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