Painting Exhibition
Suspended Rhythms
Rita Lima’s art is a virtuous and fascinating juxtaposition of visual indices which, by exalting volumes, lines, materials and colors, offers us a fertile perception of the city’s urban landmarks which, because they are familiar to our daily lives, we see without looking at them.
Her writing is pictorially textured, with mixed and chromatically mixed techniques, open to a new and creative language that seeks out and recreates its own intimate resonances and the meanings of the place, far beyond the exact boundaries of what is represented.
Year: 2007
Venue: Livraria Portuguesa, Macau
Organisation: IPOR – Instituto Português do Oriente
Technique: Mixed media. Acrylic and print on canvas, cardboard, wire, ropes.
Ano: 2007
Venue: Livraria Portuguesa, Macau
Organisation: IPOR – Instituto Português do Oriente
Technique: Mixed media. Acrylic and print on canvas, cardboard, wire, ropes.
Rita Lima’s art is a virtuous and fascinating juxtaposition of visual indices which, by exalting volumes, lines, materials and colors, offers us a fertile perception of the city’s urban landmarks which, because they are familiar to our daily lives, we see without looking at them.
Her writing is pictorially textured, with mixed and chromatically mixed techniques, open to a new and creative language that seeks out and recreates its own intimate resonances and the meanings of the place, far beyond the exact boundaries of what is represented.
Cadência
135x105cm
There is a mysterious sculptural intensity in Rita Lima’s work that shapes reality through pictorial form. Rita Lima paints, but she also sculpts the essence of everyday life, endowing it with a singular plastic value that is, after all, a poetic search for time, built of significant silences and filled voids, in the words of Zen, whose gaze and the thing gazed at constitute a single immanent unity.
They are rhythms suspended in the passage of time, resting in unfolded silhouettes that flow through the days and touch us with their solitude, their silence, their stillness, their serenity, their abstraction and their geometry that is consubstantial with the invisible presence of human intervention.
It’s an aesthetic time that takes us back to the static timelessness of the city, with its light, colors, smells and volume, and leaves us uncovered to a nostalgia for this temporal wandering that surrounds us.
Art does not reproduce the visible, but makes it visible.
Paul Klee
Recalling Baudelaire who said that modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable, Rita Lima’s art is a subtle, intuitive art that whisperingly invades the floating territory of the human being, ambivalently divided between the feeling of temporality and wandering (our founding nomadism) and the aspiration to eternity, offering the viewer the essentials of art which, as in life, are invisible and indivisible to the eye.
Rui Rocha
Vogal Executivo do IPOR
