The film is a tribute to the first abstract films of the historical avant-garde that flourished in the early 20th century.
Much of my artistic production at the turn of the '80s and '90s, will take inspiration from the artistic developments of abstract films to project them in a more current context in the manner of. .......
Far from the minimalist and serial concept, it was always the moving geometric image that interested me with its various framing and points of view.
In the film, the fixed framing on a square-shaped screen, enhances variations in slowness, clear initials to a final evanescent towards a clear gray defined. Outside the screen, the presence of the triangle the half of a square and the horizontal stripes, mnemonically refer to my first works of the series: line-strip-square, late 70’s.
Parcourir 1 acrylic on canvas cm. 35x50 Eduardo Roda' 2004 Private Coll.
Synopisis
SPACE, COLOUR, AND MATTER. 2004/2023
An exhibition held at Galerie Bernard in Montreal in 2004.
In this filmed visit, at first we see the works Details followed by Pages Details both from the long Transmission Series
The works Details in its horizontal development enhance still images, details in the details of long and multiple transmissions.
The works of Pages Details develop in its square form, here the details are seen more closely, an enlargement, creating a possible sequence and similarly calling to mind the first abstract films.
This is followed by a Presentation by Galerie Bernard Director the art critic Professor Gianguido Fucito.
Transcript of the oral presentation by professor Gianguido Fucito
.......We had a visit from Louise another artist who's exhibiting here with us and she was thrilled with all this non-graphology of yours, these screens, these layers, this matter emerging, like craters, they even look like skin pores, a big space.
No, it's interesting because so much it calls us back to life constantly. No, no the exhibition is very actual, the thing is when you see a painting two, yes okay we agree, but when you see a set of works let's say that practically cover the long line, the walls of the gallery and then you see all the work that has been done, you realize that the artist finally did the possible to penetrate himself and find in that himself the elements that contribute has presented him, but there are essential parts of what is the everyday reality, that is to live the colors.
In fact in the press release I mentioned the fact and also in the invitation cardboard, that finally it is a contemporary experience to look at the works of Eduardo Roda', of another way of looking at art, it is not the usual way.
They look like spaces that are minimized or even amplified in a macrocosmic way and that remind us of really tiny worlds, that hidden from the eyes, from the vision, from the hypothalamus, so we find in these, brought back to the surface of the elements that then adapt to today's technology.
The color palette is no longer the same as the one we know.
So all the tradition experienced even by artists like De Sanctis or the critic Benedetto Croce who talked about the work and colors of the time, we find them here in a rather television or video game dimension, which is much closer to what are the desires, the struggles,
the pleasures, the amusements of children.
So a work of art that somehow fits into what are the relationships with a toy that does not have a function of manipulation, but a function of manipulated vision.
The viewer by meeting both with the spaces, with the colors and with the material is able to reconstruct through these, a new world, which may belong to him and which he shares with the quality and ability of the artist, thank you ……..
Gianguido Fucito – Canadian, and Venetian by birth. Multidisciplinary artist, art collector, art gallery director, art critic, lecturer and professor. Funder of Arteka Cabinet – Conseil (1988). These venues allow him to provide the general public and artists with fifty years of acquired experience in theory and practice of is art. His works are found in numerous collections, both public and private.
………..Details to access different worlds: fragile balance of an image that lives and goes beyond the strength of the detail in the detail, to rise to independent work…
An even closer look, a close-up view to widen the visual field and set in motion the imagination of the viewer. A look that decreases the distance, a direct grip between the work and the viewer.
Wall Monitors, emphasizes this aspect, large and small details coexist in a ZOOM IMAGES that develops in immediate steps, of various sizes, on six canvases, which simulate video - monitors.
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Galerie Bernard
Exhibition
Collection Bernard Gallery
March 1 to April 1 2023
From March 1 to April 1, 2023, Galerie Bernard presents a new exhibition consisting of works from its own collection.
For the first time gathered here, these works come from a selection of acquisitions made by Galerie Bernard since its 25 years of existence.
Among other artist present is the work of Eduardo Roda’ - Black Detail .
C Eduardo Roda’ 2000 – preparatory study Black Detail – C Roda. Archives
