THE DEPTH OF THINGS: NICOLÁS BACAL AT GALERÍA VERMELHO
The Depth of Things is a series of 24 photographs created from a stellar planisphere. For the exhibition at Galeria Vermelho, Nicolás Bacal isolated and separated the galactic plane (the Milky Way) into fragments that he used as precise guides to compose his images.
The artist placed domestic objects on a black table, following the positions of stars and nebulae. For the stars belonging to the constellations of modern science, he placed the objects at a precise height. Bacal used a very shallow depth of field so that only these objects were in focus. In the background, elements such as steel wool, grains of rice, nuts, buttons, etc., lose their definition and are transformed into mysterious galactic shapes.
The work also serves as a domestic homage to the astronomical images captured by the Hubble and Webb telescopes. The mundane becomes stellar, revealing a cosmology of disorder.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
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Vistas de la exhibición. Cortesía Galería Vermelho.
Nicolás Bacal is a musician and visual artist whose research revolves around sensitive time and emotional life. His production unfolds in works that use machines, systems and industrial materials endowed with romantic inversions that propose to the observer other ways of appreciating his relationship with the physical and symbolic environment.
Bacal graduated in electroacoustic composition at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, and enrolled in different workshops and training programs at the Fundación Telefónica (Madrid) and the Centro Cultural Rojas (Buenos Aires). He was a fellow of the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009), the Programa de Artistas de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine, USA, 2014). As a musician, he was a member of the experimental trio Lile, with whom he released an album in 2007 on the German label Monika Enterprise. He is currently a professor at the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires.
The depth of things.Individual exhibition by Nicolás Bacal.
Until August 5th, 2023.
Galería Verlmelho. Rua Minas Gerais, 350. São Paulo, Brasil.
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