Carne Seca — Talles Lopes

Talles Lopes

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Carne seca
Carne Seca

Madeira e tela mosquiteira.
125 x 150 x 30 cm.
2023.

Wood and mosquito netting.
125 x 150 x 30 cm.
2023.

Abrir Horizontes. Octo Marques Cultural Center. Goiânia. Foto: Carlos Monaretta
Abrir Horizontes. Octo Marques Cultural Center. Goiânia. Photo: Carlos Monaretta

Ao confrontar o legado arquitetônico brasileiro com uma visualidade popular sertaneja, Lopes direciona um questionamento central ao pensamento moderno, cuja base é funcional: esvazia de função prática os varais de carne de sol, tratando-os como ornamento, e inquere sobre a possibilidade de existir uma preocupação ornamental que redireciona a função estrutural. No modernismo arquitetônico, eurocêntrico, almeja-se compor um caráter estético a partir do ordenamento de elementos estruturais e funcionais, sobretudo ortogonais e austeros, sem elementos acessórios que se comportariam como ornamento: afinal, todo ornamento é excedente.

Na instalação, Lopes reopera imagens canônicas da arquitetura moderna da escola paulista e as hibridiza com a cultura dos varais de carne de sol, bastante comuns no interior goiano, onde o artista cresceu e vive. Seu trabalho reflete o contraste ao se deparar, de um lado, com as expressões arquitetônicas populares que observa na sua região e, do outro, com as referências obtidas através das aulas e das publicações de arquitetura durante a graduação. Quando replica colunas icônicas da escola paulista – referindo-se a obras de João Vilanova Artigas e Paulo Mendes da Rocha –, o artista indaga sobre a superação da funcionalidade e a tentativa de atingir a monumentalidade – nem que, para isso, seja preciso flertar novamente com a ideia de ornamento, descartada pelo modernismo.

(Trecho de texto de Mateus Nunes. 2022).

By confronting Brazil’s architectural legacy with the popular sertanejo visuality (Sertanejo: pertaining to, originating in or belonging to the sertão; situated inland, far from the coast), Lopes raises a central question about modern thinking, which is based on function: he empties the sun-dried meat greenhouse [1] of their practical function, treating them as ornaments, and inquires about the possibility of an ornamental concern that redirects the structural function. In Eurocentric architectural modernism, the aim is to compose an aesthetic character based on the ordering of structural and functional elements, above all orthogonal and austere, without accessory elements that would behave as ornament: after all, all ornament is surplus.

In the installation, Lopes reworks canonical images of modern architecture from the São Paulo school and hybridizes them with the culture of sun-dried meat greenhouses, which are very common in the interior of Goiás, where the artist grew up and lives. His work reflects the contrast between, on the one hand, the popular architectural expressions he observes in his region and, on the other, the references he obtained from architecture classes and publications during his undergraduate studies. When he replicates iconic columns from the São Paulo school - referring to works by João Vilanova Artigas and Paulo Mendes da Rocha - the artist asks about overcoming functionality and trying to achieve monumentality - even if this means flirting once again with the idea of ornament, discarded by modernism.

(Excerpt from text by Mateus Nunes. 2022).

[1] In various dry regions of the interior of Brazil, popularly known as the “sertão”, due to the lack of access to electricity and the poor technology for refrigerating food, a way of preparing beef has been created in which it is wrapped in salt and left continuously exposed to the sun for days until it is extremely dry, which guarantees the preservation of the meat for a longer period of time. This meat is called carne de sol (sun-dried meat), or Carne Seca (dried meat), and is kept in a greenhouse protected by green screens that allow air to ventilate while protecting it from insects.

Varais de carne seca. Arraias, Tocantins. Brasil 2011.
Greenhouses for dried meat. Arraias,Tocantins. Brazil. 2011.

Varais de carne seca. Divinopolis, Tocantins. Brasil. 2012.
Greenhouses for dried meat. Divinopolis, Tocantins. Brazil. 2012.

Abrir Horizontes. Octo Marques Cultural Center. Goiânia. Foto: Paulo Rezende.
Abrir Horizontes. Octo Marques Cultural Center. Goiânia. Photo: Paulo Rezende.

Proto-tipo. Galeria Idea!Zarvos. São Paulo.
Proto-tipo. Idea!Zarvos Gallery. São Paulo.

Abrir Horizontes. Octo Marques Cultural Center. Goiânia. Foto: Carlos Monaretta
Abrir Horizontes. Octo Marques Cultural Center. Goiânia. Photo: Carlos Monaretta

Proto-tipo. Galeria Idea!Zarvos. São Paulo.
Proto-tipo. Idea!Zarvos Gallery. São Paulo.