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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Caetano de Almeida, 8 ½, 2024

Caetano de Almeida b. N. 1964, Campinas, Brasil
Vive e trabalha em São Paulo, Brasil

8 ½, 2024
acrílica sobre tela
[acrylic on canvas]
180 x 270 x 3 cm
70 7/8 x 106 1/4 x 1 1/8 in
21852
© artista [the artist]
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Paralelamente, 8 ½ guarda forte similaridade visual com o famoso mapa de Roma elaborado por Giambattista Nolli (1701-1756) em 1748. Nesse mapa, Nolli utilizava áreas cheias e vazias para distinguir os espaços privados e públicos da cidade, estabelecendo o método cartográfico conhecido como 'mapa de Nolli', que evidencia os complexos fluxos espaciais das malhas urbanas . Ressurgem, nessas pinturas, informações autobiográficas do artista: memórias lúdicas de sua infância, construindo volumes com blocos de encaixe coloridos e livros da biblioteca de seus pais, além das centenas de mapas e desenhos técnicos de arquitetura feitos quando aluno da Escola de Desenho Campinas na década de 1980. ------ In parallel, 8 ½ strongly resembles Giambattista Nolli's famous 1748 map of Rome. In this map, Nolli used solid and void areas to distinguish private from public spaces in the city, pioneering the cartographic method known as the "Nolli Map," highlighting urban grids' complex spatial flows. These paintings also evoke autobiographical references from De Almeida’s life: playful childhood memories of constructing volumes with colorful building blocks and stacks of books from his parents’ library, as well as the hundreds of architectural maps and technical drawings he produced as a student at the Escola de Desenho Campinas in the 1980s. This interplay of historical, personal, and structural elements underscores the artist’s enduring engagement with the dualities of memory and geometry, rigor and intuition, and abstraction and narrative.
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