Tiummmmtichamm is a flat sculpture, built by means of a marquetry of granite and marble. On its surface on the one hand, we see a thin layer of water running over the stone, and on the other, the representations of this movement translated by the contrast between the white of the marble and the black of the granite. As in a mirror, the work creates a bridge between real and virtual space, bringing these two dimensions closer together. Its planarity contradicts the idea of volume connected to the sculpture, which is why the whole aesthetic experience linked to the work occurs while the observer walks around the object, based on the image of the movement of water and its sound.
José Spaniol
São Luiz Gonzaga, Rio Grande do Sul, 1960
He currently lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil
www.jspaniol.com
Visual artist and professor at the Institute of Arts at UNESP in São Paulo. From 1990 to 1993, he studied at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany, as a scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service; he holds a doctorate in arts from ECA-USP. At the beginning of his career, the artist used everyday objects, and established an exchange between utilitarian and poetic functions. Since the 1990s, he has explored the relationship between his works and architecture and exhibition spaces.
