Exhibition The whole is made of parts

Marcelo Guarnieri Gallery - Ribeirão Preto

visitation period > 28.06 – 26.07.2014

"Pedro Hurpia presents the exhibition "The whole is made of parts", his first individual exhibition in the gallery. In this set of works, Hurpia seems to take a deeper step in his investigations. The landscape is present, as well as the photograph and painting characteristic of his later works, but it reveals a deepening not only in the relations between man and nature, but of human being in experience. If for Espinoza, Nature is a whole composed of single and essential parts, in the same way we find in human experience a set of affective, unique and mutable microparts.

The trajectory presents us with small revealing parts of affections and memories. There is a body that experiences the mapping of a trip, finding in the fusion between drawings and paintings a cartography of the imaginary. When this body is placed 'in natura', it seeks to capture and suspend the experience by the photograph of the instant, extending the invitation to experience. And by the magic eye it seems to whisper to our ears: "Can you get the whole? What parts brought you here? " The way back presents other possibilities, where the (re) configured body reappears on the screen, in other parts, different colors and temperatures of a whole that deconstructs. Then we have the memory, the subtle and personal affections that can not be shared, which slip through our hands into fragments of what has gone.

It should be emphasized, however, that the interaction between the parties presented by Pedro Hurpia are of multiple configurations, freeing us to combine them and experience them in infinite forms and organizations. Again, for Espinoza, each part focuses on a whole, but there is an infinite that we can grasp by the understanding and there is another that we access through the imagination. Hurpia call us to the latter, exploring the parts for a trip as a whole."

Text by J. Carrer | Marcelo Guarnieri Gallery | Ribeirão Preto - SP

Estudo para Deslocamento | 2014

Installation detail

Acrylic emulsion on canvas and wood

approx. 10 x 15 x 8 cm