Drawing Spaces is a project space located at Fábrica Braço de Prata, in Lisbon, that seeks to promote investigative practices related to the subject of drawing. This project supports collaborations between artists and researchers from Portugal and artists and researchers from abroad. Drawing Spaces involves 22 artistic residencies and exhibitions; a series of lectures and debates; and various activities for art students and the general public related to the subject of drawing.
ISO2768-mH
Nuno Pedrosa
14 - 31 October 09
Project
ISO2768-mH
It is usual to think about computer-aided design as a technical procedure only, but it would be way more accurate to think about it through the whole that brings agency and means of accomplishing it together. It is true that vectors do not quite deliver as expected all the time, but it certainly is a gross misunderstanding to reduce the whole to one of its parts.
And if it were not enough, the substantive itself adds to this misunderstanding only because it underlines the technical element only. It does away with the convolution of events underneath, leaving us with little more than an object typified solely by the technical procedure. It suffices to remember that the computational device is little more than an agency yet to be fulfilled in virtually any event involving computer-aided drawing and drafting.
This intentional nature is immediately manifest in the very first large-format printing technologies such as the pen plotter, as opposed to inkjet printing. It is not so much the mechanical implement, but the adoption of vectors instead of picture elements. The plotter pen that slides within a coordinate system is nothing but a gesture, automated is true, but gesture nonetheless.
It is not that different thus, the rationale that points the way to a hand armed with a parallel ruler and the principle behind an intention fully equipped with servo-motors. The sole difference being that the later does away with the biomechanical protuberance altogether, capable of resolution but poor in resolve and reliability.
From the 14th to the 31st of October there will be a couple of a new series of drawings by Nuno Pedrosa on display at the “Drawing Spaces” called “Transducer Drawing” and “Dimensional Drawings” that address these exact same issues, created precisely with the help of a pen plotter.
It will also be occasion to engage the visitors with a small exercise in endurance and perseverance called “Paralelism”. The line of commands is rather straightforward: each participant will be invited to draw a row of parallel lines spaced of a couple of millimeters only directly on the wall, with the sole help of a ruler.
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CV
Nuno Pedrosa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Faculdade de Belas Artes University of Lisbon and a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute, with a major concentration in Sculpture and New Genres. The adoption of technologies and procedures typical to machine design and fabrication, an all out war on rhetoric devices and a hands-on inquiry into the ontology of the work of art, the rationale of which could be best described as being almost exclusively instrumental, are amongst the most usual subjects and methods engaged by Nuno Pedrosa in his work. At the present moment, Nuno Pedrosa furthers his inquiries in the framework of a Phd degree at the École doctorale d’arts plastiques, esthétique et sciences de l’art, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is currently a recipient of a four-year scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, and was awarded previously with a Fulbright/Carmona e Costa Foundation Scholarship and a San Francisco Merit Scholarship. Nuno Pedrosa has participated in numerous solo and group shows both nationally and internationally, the most recent of which being «Where are you from? Contemporary Portuguese Art», Faulconer Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Iowa and «New Polyphonies: Contemporary Art from Portugal», University of Northern Iowa.
Drawing Spaces, Fábrica Braço de Prata
Rua da Fábrica do Material de Guerra, nº1, 1950 – 128, Lisbon
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