BOOK Thierry Ferreira WHAT IS ART?
BOOK Thierry Ferreira what is art?
“Schizophrenia 2”; Video (Portugal 2012; Full HD; Pal; Color; Sound; 3’12’’. See +
“Schizophrenia 2” is part of a set of works made around the issues of “man” and “technology”. In this particular case it is a work of moving images through which the artist intends to make the viewer question him/herself about the relationship between man and technology. We live in a markedly technological era, enveloped in large economic interests. On the one hand it is synonymous with progress, showing all the creativity and ingenuity of man, but on the other hand, it generates social exclusion as soon as it has a closing effect on the individual user of the technology. Does technology override the nature of the one who uses it?
untitled, 2012 Técnica mista sobre papel 29x21 cm
BOOK Thierry Ferreira what is art?
Video Installation “Push the button” Input 2012, Space Flausina, Lisbon
BOOK Thierry Ferreira what is art?
“Schizophrenia 3”; Video (Portugal 2012; Full HD; Pal; Color; Sound; 2’20’’; Transferred onto DVD). See Vídeo
“Schizophrenia 3” is part of a series of works created around the issues most discussed in today’s society and have enormous difficulty in generating a broad consensus in favor of a concrete and relevant. This difficulty of converting thought collective action tends to create spaces where thought is round, airtight and sterile. In this particular case, it is a work in motion pictures through which the artist intends to lead the viewer to think about the issue of weight art education and art history on the creative act. Synopsis: In this work moving images it is possible to visualize at first the action of a hand holding a graphite coloring random image Titi (cartoon character). This action will continue until the image disappears covered by graphite giving way to the image of a figure of a famous painting. The course of the video is initiated by a question and ends with a response accompanied by a scary noise.
BOOK Thierry Ferreira what is art?
“Deposed dictator or single Democratic politician� Photography and Object, 2012
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“Qu’est ce que c’est ? Qui a fait ? À quoi ça sert ?” Drawing and Object, 2012
BOOK Thierry Ferreira what is art?
BOOK Thierry Ferreira what is art?
“Nouvel Accent” 2012, International Space Cosmopolis, Nantes, France
“Qui suis-je?” 2011, 1’38’’, Pal. See vídeo
In the video “Qui suis-je?” I explore issues concerning identity through a game of images in motion, within separately framed shots, and their respective sounds. In this video, the images serve the purpose of fixating the spectator on a visual identity, forcing the recognition of one single individual, despite the fact that it is presented in four shots, initially alternated and later simultaneous, and speaks in two languages: Portuguese and French.. Read + Synopsis: “Qui suis-je?” | 2011 | 1’38’’ | Pal | Presents a set of images in motion with color and sound. In this video one can see, in a first stage, four unfocused framed close-up shots of a mouth that alternate, appearing one at a time. In a second stage, the four shots appear side by side and remain so until, at the end of the video, they disappear one by one. In each shot, a blurry mouth repeats a phrase, different from the ones spoken by the other mouths.
BOOK Thierry Ferreira what is art?
monsieur FERREIRA
The Project Monsieur Ferreira is integrated in a thematic of action and questioning contemporary Art: relationship, context, function of art in our daily life. Isn’t art inherent to the human being? (Read +)
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ARCO Madrid, 2013
Museo Nacional Del Prado, Madrid, 2013
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Modern Art Centre - Calouste Gulbenkian, 2011 LX Factory, 2010, Lisbon Lisbon art fair , 2010
BOOK Thierry Ferreira what is art?
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Series of 14 photographs Archival Inkjet printing 24x16 cm
Thierry Ferreira’s photographic series “Pursuit of Radioactive Cloud” emerged as observation and spontaneous capture by the artist of a cloud that, along a way, stayed omnipresent. The choice to face it as a metaphor for an imminent radioactive threat, concrete and real, is due to the events that were highlighted in the news at the time that the photographic series was made, namely the radioactivity leak from nuclear plants in Japan in the aftermath of the great earthquake of March 2011 in that country. Read +
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untitled, 2012 Archival Inkjet printing 30x60 cm
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untitled, 2012 Archival Inkjet printing 60x60 cm
Exposition NoMe ArmazĂŠm 7, 2009 Lisbon
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Thierry Ferreira has been developing, since 2006, a vast body of work that has the “House� as its main theme. His work explores the relationship between Man and his House, trying to establish connections between the construction of the contemporary Man and its archaic equivalent in that same construction, in architectural-anthropological terms. The artist primarily seeks to show evidence that memories are imprinted in the structure of the house through various techniques, supports and materials.. Read +
untitled, 2011 Roofnate 195x195x105 cm
BOOK Thierry Ferreira what is art?
“Artificial dreams” 2011, 1’38’’, Pal. See Video
“House of my Land” 2011, 24’27’’, PAL. See Video
Thierry Ferreira presents us a slow video, abstract and difficult to decipher at a first sight. Smooth and strange forms slowly evolve, gradually gaining volume and presence. It is the soundtrack that, laid over the images, creates a stratum of meanings that guides our reading of the abstract forms. The video may in fact be read in several ways, inverting the beginning and the end, combining construction and destruction, abstraction and figuration. The artist explores the relationship between the human being and its habitat, seeking to establish connections between the building of the contemporary man and its archaic equivalent both on an anthropological level and on an architectural level.
Thierry Ferreira’s video seems to occur in a tale of Jorge Luis Borges. The fixed shot frames a landscape with no reference, where a volume disintegrates very slowly. Thus calling for the sensation of the Fantastic where the notion of time ceases to present itself as systematized between past, present and future, to be condensed into one single sensation of non-time. The return to a certain beginning – to the desert, the ruin or to the void – reveals itself as an eternal present of the future. The video’s progress transports the observer to a zone of strangeness, to a reality that only appears in dreams. The House – the great theme that the artist has been dedicated to – is perhaps the last possible symbol in which to anchor a utopia of this size. It is about the minimum structure that demarcates us, temporarily, from a whole in perpetual motion. Like Borges’ The Book of Sand, the abyss that its infinitude caused coincides with the reader’s (passenger’s) impossibility to confirm it.
Emeline Girault (Curator)
Oliveira, Filipa, “O Livro de Areia”, catalogue for the exhibition Anteciparte 09, Museu do Oriente, Lisboa, pp 54
BOOK Thierry Ferreira what is art?
“CUBIC#21020182” 2012 Basalt Bento Gonçalves, Brasil See +
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“CUBIC#21020190” 2012 Marble Roldan, Argentina See +
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“CUBIC#21028013” 2012 Granite Caldas da Rainha, Portugal See +
This installation is composed of a series of red objects (images) placed randomly in the middle of a jungle. The group of composition gives us the idea of an abandoned camp raising in us the following question: Is it that man has abandoned his own nature not knowing how to incorporate nature in himself.
Land Art Installation, 2011 - Quinta Pedag贸gica Erva Daninha, Benedita, Portugal
Thierry Ferreira 1970, Plessis-Trévise, France Lives and works in Alcobaça (Portugal) and in Le Plessis Trévise (France) Director of the Laboratory of Sculpture - CAOS Contact: T: (00351) 919825989 S: www.thierryferreira.com E: thierry.ferreira@gmail.com Address: Rua do Anjo,8 2460-534 Maiorga Portugal 1 Avenue Clément Ader 94420 Le Plessis Trévise França
Education and Training: 2009 - Graduated in Visual Arts at the School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha (Portugal), ESAD. - Workshop Planning and Organization of Exposure: The role of Curator, Armazém das Artes, Alcobaça, Portugal. Work Experience: 2010 - Design, manufacture and installation of the scenography for the party child, Alcobaça, Portugal. (+) - Organization and implementation of the I International Symposium of stone sculpture, Arrimal, Portugal. (+) - Curator of the II Biennial of Plastic Arts Ansião, Portugal. (+) - Curator of the “Videobox,” Roldan, Argentina. (+) - Curator of the week juvenile of AJCSS Barafunda Benedita, Portugal. (+)
Exhibitions 2013 - Project monsieur FERREIRA: ARCO Madrid, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Museo Nacional Del Prado, Spain - “Franqueados .13”, Madrid, Spain 2012 - “Nouvel Accent”, International Space Cosmopolis, Nante, France - INPUT, Project Flausina, Lisbon, Portugal 2011 - Project monsieur FERREIRA: Modern Arts Center Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and Berardo Collection, Lisbon - VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival, Bulgaria - Festival Oodaaq, Renne, France - 90-10 Exhibition 20 years of art ESAD, Lisbon, Portugal 2010 - Video Exhibition Videobox II, Roldan, Argentina - Video Exhibition Videobox II, Ansião, Portugal - Video Exhibition “Estúdio UM - Vende-se”, Caldas Late Night 14, Portugal - “Balde de Água – Casa da Praia” Fabrica da Pólvora, Oeiras, Portugal 2009 - Anteciparte, Museu do Oriente, Lisboa, Portugal - “Nome”, Armazém 7, Lisboa, Portugal - “À Bolonhesa”, Museu Bernardo, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 2008 - 1º Biennale d’Arts Plastique, Ansião, Portugal 2006 - Contemporâneos III, Museu do Vidro, Marinha Grande, Portugal 2005 - Salon d’Art Contemporain de Montrouge, France - 5th Prize of Sculpture City Desk, Cascais, Portugal 2003 - 12th Art Biennale of Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal - 3rd Prize of Sculpture City Desk, Cascais, Portugal Prizes 2011 2008 2005 2004 2003
- Second prize of Jingpo Town International Sculpture Art Festival, China - First Prize of Sculpture, Ansiãol, Portugal - First Prize of Sculpture, Artur Bual – Amadora, Portugal - Honourable mentions: 3º edition of Prize Baviera Plastic Arts, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal - Honourable mentions: IV edition Painting and Sculpture Prize D. Fernando II, Portugal
Works in public space 2012 - “CUBIC#21020182#”, Bento Gonçalves, Brazil (+) - “CUBIC#21020190#”, Roldan, Argentina (+) - “CUBIC#21028013#”, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (+) 2010 - “Marco”, Arrimal, Portugal - “Cucha del Artista” Roldan, Argentina - “Nº6”, Puerto General San Martìn, Argentina 2006 - “Abraço », Saint Pons de Thonières, France - “Theatrum”, Balatonfured, Hungary 2005 - “Montagnes d’Arcadie”, Montbrison, France