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I have wiped the pen on the paper so often it seems like a drawing

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Rui Rasquinho is a visual artist based in Macau and Lisbon. He studied painting at the Fine Arts Faculty, University of Porto, and Animation Cinema at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. His current exhibition of works – a New Visions project by the cultural organization BABEL – tries to elaborate and experiment with the practice of drawing.

It seeks to demonstrate how the act of drawing can manifest itself in several forms, in a process of experimentation and critique over the mechanics and concepts involved in that discipline. These iterations do not appear themselves as answers or fixed formulas, but more as questions, open ideas emanating from some kind of laboratory: they represent a reflection on the limits and notions of what is considered artistic drawing, researching possibilities between abstraction and figuration, the nature of process, the non-authorial work of art and the porosity between media.

Divided into four spaces, the exhibition starts with a more traditional approach to drawing, the mark on the surface: charcoal, graphite and China ink on paper and foldable Xuan paper books. The second room reveals a move to a more sculptural approach, with drawings tending to abstraction and tri-dimensionality in the form of “found objects” and materials picked from construction sites.

In the third room this sculptural tendency continues, crystallised as “installations”, culminating in some sort of drawing machine that reproduces drawings/images through vibrations and aural perceptions. This “machine” drips water and China ink onto a surface connected to a microphone that sends sound and vibrations through an audio amplifier into a seismograph, that in turn produces a graphic representation of that sound (action of dripping) on two video monitors. At the end in a dark chamber, a retro projector (a contraption that drips water and China ink into a bowl) sends a continuously changing image onto a screen made of Xuan paper. The sound of the drip is amplified contaminating the projected drawing.

August 20–September 22, 2020 Casa Garden, 13 Praça de Luís de Camões, Macau Free admission

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