beyond proscenium

Eduardo Rodà

proscenio170@gmail.com

YEAR VIII N.62

Part 2 - So close so far – virtual and silent proscenium

BeyondProscenium

Physical distance, social and mental, are natural ingredients befitting of creation. Today's present strengthens the isolation.

“The proscenium” becomes the dividing line between the spectator and the staging. On this imaginary line is the screen that separates us from walking in the scene.

The curtain opens, the now belongs to the artist to imagine how to fill the scene behind the proscenium, the reduction in scale becomes a necessity to produce the “model “ and the enlarged projection will take into account the human presence on stage.

The sculptures that I am proposing here are closely linked to the same themes as the Background series of paintings, they amplify in some way the field of research by dwelling on the volumes in depth; the colour makes the material surfaces more precise, the abundant textures enrich the planes and the exteriors of the volumes by similarity, mentally reminiscent of the greys of porous and grilled metal.

Here the orders of perceivable sizes leave the user free to imagine his own dimensional scales. The subject, besides being a stage object, becomes a scene, a stage to occupy, as in the modular characters of Le Corbusier who enrich his preparatory drawings.

Of the four sculptures that follow in order, here are the most salient features:

(1) Proscenium orange

© Eduardo Rodà - Wood and acrylic sculpture - cm. 22x19.5x6.7 - Private Collection - Photo Michel Dubreil

The orange interior in its own monochrome, uniformly marks the three floors in bas-relief, creating a volumetric and chiaroscuro framing, a tribute to all the screens, today's totems, of continuous jet information.

(2) Proscenium - one - blue      

© Eduardo Rodà - Wood and acrylic sculpture - cm. 39x44x9.6 - Private Collection - Photo Michel Dubreil

Bas-relief in accentuated depth, as in Proscenium Orange, are called to a frontal perception, the exterior in metal gray, grid-tested, simulates the pixel, as in all other sculptures, the ultramarine blue interior, shaded area, is graciously embellished.

(3) Backstage  

© Eduardo Rodà - Wood and acrylic sculpture - cm. 23x23x10 -- Private Collection - Photo Michel Dubreil

It develops opening towards the back, in a three-dimensional doubleface, the vertical planes in yellow and the orange framing of a black background are circumscribed within a square painted in apricot, with its exterior in grey.

(4) Mise en scène  ( Staging )

©  Eduardo Rodà Wood and acrylic sculpture - cm. 22.5x46x10– Artist Collection - Photo Michel Dubreil

The proportions imagined for this sculpture can easily be guessed from the title of the work, as in a scene where the human presence and its movements define it.

Characterized by a chromatic scale of blue, black and apricot, it develops horizontally as a container of vertical forms, colored panels that move ideally to the right and left, the user the free will of creative thought, a desirable interaction.

"Sculpture reassures us that the virtual has its limits, the individual's need to live three-dimensionality and not to give up touching the material with his hands. The object as such has a priori occupied mental spaces and is concretely the epilogue of thought".