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The Architecture of Memory - José Alberto Nemer

In the genealogy of humans as creative beings - whom we have agreed on calling "the artist" - there is no separation among its multiple manifestations, either when it comes to handling and improving techniques or in its intellectual aspects. Life has always furnished the best reasons for human beings to become creators. The concepts of art and artist as well as the relations they establish through the so-called artistic production, i.e. the work of art, are relatively recent. It is in the work of art that the creator - a revered artisan of material culture - activates a mysterious circuit between the paradigms of society of a given time and the formal structures of language. It is also in the work of art that human beings celebrate a synthesis between the obscure meaning of the drives and the unlimited universe of the imaginary.

It is hard to avoid allusions to the philosophical aspects of the artistic praxis when we reflect upon the work of Fernando Velloso. With him we are led to a territory where the boundaries between artistic languages are blurred and the artistic work is derived from constant practice. Having studied architecture at college, Velloso has never worked as an architect in the strict sense. Whatever drove him to study architecture becomes apparent in the architectonic quality of his paintings.
 
 
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