TÚLIO PINTO
“Athar #5” 2018
H-beams and blown glass.
173 x 260 x 780 cm
“Athar means impact in Arabic. The family of works that bears this name presents radical situations of load suffered by the glass pieces that I propose to use in the established systems.”
Athar #5 consists of three H beams and a glass bubble. The position of the beams forms a tripod, and their meeting is interrupted by a glass piece positioned between them, in what would be their meeting point. This work was elaborated to happen in an architectural context, using the corners of a space to support the “feet” of the tripod. This situation was activated in the exhibition MOMENTUM that took place in 2020 at MARGS (Museum of Art of Rio Grande do Sul). For the Usina de Arte, the challenge was to install the piece over the water mirror of one of the institution’s dams, activating a new layer of perception of the work through the duplication of the same through its reflection in the water.
“Nadir # almost an island 02” 2021
The series of works entitled Nadir presents, in different systems, angled glass slides in a position of “interrupted fall.” This pause in the falling movement occurs from the interdependence generated between the glass and the system of ropes and stones. The minerals function as the anchor of the situation and the pendulum that “supports” the interrupted movement of the glass. Similar to Athar, “Nadir #quase uma ilha 02” was also installed over a mirror of water in one of the reservoirs of the institution.
Also worth noting is the meaning of Nadir.
In astronomy and geography, nadir (from the Arabic nadeer nathir, “opposite”) is the lower point of the celestial sphere, from the perspective of an observer on the surface of the planet.[1] Nadir is the point diametrically opposite, on the celestial sphere, to the Zenith, which is the point directly above the observer in the horizontal coordinate system. Nadir, whose prefix nad has a connection with Sanskrit, would mean channel, stream, or flow from nowhere. It would then be the channel in which the prana would circulate through the body to infinity.
“Given this perspective of definition and appropriating it poetically, I understand that every Nadir that I propose to perform triggers, through the forces that operate and that “flow” through the work, a diametrically opposed place on the planet. If there were a hole that swept the planet, below each pendulum stone, all the gravity used by the system as invisible matter and crucial to the conformation of the event would flow through it.”
Túlio Pinto
Brasília, Distrito Federal, 1974
He currently lives and works in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Túlio Pinto holds a bachelor's degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul's Institute of Arts and has completed several artist residencies, among them FAAP's Residency Program at Edifício Lutetia, São Paulo (2011); IZOLYATSIA, Donetsk, Ukraine (2014); as well as residencies at Lamb Arts, Berkshire, England; Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art, USA (2015); and at Piramidón, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona (2018), among others.
He held several solo exhibitions in public and private institutions, national and international, among them: Divergent Encounters, at MAC Sorocaba (2021); Hole in the Sky, Galeria Millan (2020); Momentum, at MARGS - Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (2019); Ground Control, Humo Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (2017); Onloaded: Túlio Pinto, Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, USA (2015); Diagonal, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (2011).
