MARCIUS GALAN

Galeria Luisa Strina is pleased to announce its 4th solo show by Marcius Galan.

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The title of the exhibition is taken from the names for the views of architectural drawings, used to give a general understanding of a design.

In Planta/Corte Marcius Galan breaks up elements such as lines, corners and gaps in almost full scale, where the thickness of the lines coincide with the thickness of the gallery walls.

Exercises in geometry and scale transposition, as well as crossovers between different disciplines are recurrent themes in his work. At the 2010 São Paulo Biennial the artist presented two works: Ponto em escala real, appropriating a graphic element from the map (a point) and subjecting it to a 1:1 scale; and Entre, a set of microscopes that draw on dividing lines on maps in which the notion of precision is transformed into the possibility of entering a universe within the fibers of paper.

The universe of geometry is commonly found in his studies. The line might be a simple drawing on paper, just as it might also be imposed as a physical barrier, preventing free movement between territories, guiding our course around the city, organizing the domestic space and laying out bureaucratic forms, queues in banks etc. Therefore, by dismembering these plans into small fragments, an ambiguous situation arises between organization and disorder.

Translúcido, another series presented in the exhibition, is formed by overlapping, empty, iron rectangles, positioned against the wall and projecting and unlikely reflection of glass and shadow. The work forms a set of windows, in an apparently precarious state of equilibrium, where the perception of space is again at stake.

In the final room a set of previously unseen works entitled A mão suja, in which graffiti-impregnated surfaces hand on a wall that keeps its installation marks, forming drawings that record the movements during the assembly of the room. Again the drawing leaves aside its virtual and representative aspects, and imbues the room with traces of the work executed there for just over a week.

Overlapping systems and codes, presenting new ways to read and understand space, Marcius Galan explores the functionality of objects and systems of representation and, consequently, questions the idea of precision – above all in relation to place representation, such as cartography, geometry, architecture and design.