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“For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not. (...) A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewers. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist 's mind." Sol LeWitt The artworks presented...

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Energy fields, cryptic and magnificent - On The Art of Antonio Dias
1. Antonio Dias has, for me, a great deal of that which Paracelsus demanded of the physician: that he be proficient in mettallurgy and alchemy, well versed in the professions of the dyer, tanner and herbwife, that he be capable of differentiating between the visible and the invisible of bodies...

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Construction of a non-ending place
Antonio Dias' opus is multiple. It can't be limited to styles and it's neither loyal to techniques nor to the election of themes. Throughout almost 40 years, the artist produced paintings, objects, installations, record, photos and films, sponsoring a rigorous leveling of any hierarchy among the...

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Antonio Dias' world...
Antonio Dias' world, as Paulo Herkenhoff fitly says in the presentation text of this exhibition, develops itself in the shape of a spiral, alluding thus to a trajectory in which he visits and revisits places where his art is made and remade. Given the extraordinarily thorough and precise way...

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Antonio Dias' absolute cartographies
Antonio Dias’art proposes to us the singular instance of an iconicity without referent, or, more exactly, of an auto-referential iconicity. The iconical cycle, being performed in it, does not point out towards the external world; it returns to itself, establishes short circuit in the mimetic...

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Antonio Dias I Surface, figure, pattern
1. Surface Beginning in the 1960s, Antonio Dias has been rendering, as a distinctive element of his work, an L-shaped form that suggests the remaining surface from the cutting of a rectangle out from the upper right·hand corner of a larger rectangle (1). By and large, such remaining silhouette...

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