ARCOlisboa 2023

Cordoaria Nacional Lisboa

Blanca Casas Brullet

Diogo Pimentão

Our proposal consists of a dialog between artists of the same generation: Blanca Casas Brullet (Mataró, 1973) and Diogo Pimentão (Lisbon, 1973). In their methodology, the economy of means and materials is inversely proportional to the period of work and reflection that their production implies.

Ceramics, cement, found objects, paper and account books are some of the low ecological pressure materials that the artists conceptualize, developing a manual work of great precision. In their works on paper, both artists explore a wide range of possibilities. Through intrigue, repetition or gesture, we intuit when Blanca Casas Brullet is interested in the grid, either by deconstructing it, translating it or decomposing it into its most primary formal residues. This conceptualization is associated with Pimentão when, in her sculptures, she subjugates the fragile reality of cellulose by subtly bending it. Although everything seems to be what it seems to be, nothing really has to be. Pimentão draws on the rigidity of cement or metal, working with the tactility and ductility of materials that recall Minimal Art or Arte Povera.

Diogo Pimentão (Lisboa, 1973)

Lives and works in London. Trained at Ar.Co, Lisbon, at the Sculpture Seminar, Gotland and at the International Sculpture Center, Pêro Pinheiro in Portugal.

Some of his most important solo exhibitions have taken place at Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Monographic Exhibition, FRAC (Rouen Normandie), Museu de Arte Contemporânea – Colecção António Cachola, (Elvas), Kentkler International Drawing Space (Brooklyn), Yvon Lambert Gallery, (Paris).

His works have been part of group exhibitions at: Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris), Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon), Fundação Serralves (Porto), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris and CAB Foundation, (Brussels), Fondation Ricard, (Paris), among others.

His works are present in art centers, institutions and private collections in Europe and North America, such as Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (Paris), Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris), Collection Pomeranz (Vienna), Collection Lambert (Avignon), European Central Bank (Berlin), Fundaçao Serralves (Porto), PLMJ Foundation (Lisbon), MAAT The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, (Lisbon), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), MONA, Museum of Old and New Art (Australia).

Blanca Casas Brullet (Mataró, Barcelona, 1973)

Blanca Casas Brullet lives and works in Paris and Barcelona. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From the beginning, Blanca Casas Brullet’s work has been nourished by images inscribed in everyday language, by polysemy and the poetic charge hidden in the interstices and in the passage from one language to another. The rhetorical figures and images of the language we invoke to account for the world permeate the artist’s gaze, always attentive to losses and false friends, to misunderstandings and the poetic – and sometimes playful – potential of translation.

She has participated in international group exhibitions, fairs and festivals in Europe, Latin America, South Africa, Taiwan, South Korea and Canada. She has presented her work in solo exhibitions, most recently at Galerie Odile Ouizeman, Paris (France), Can Manyé-Espai d’Art i de Creació, Alella (Spain), Can Palauet, Mataró (Spain), Françoise Paviot, Paris (France); Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona (Spain)), Chateau d’Oiron (France); Museu del Moli Paperer de Capellades (Spain), Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques Nogent sur Marne (France); Fondation Ricard, Paris (France).