“In the book Capricho, which is also made up of multiplicity and fragmentation, of confrontations between daily life and the artistic legacy of the past, we find appropriations of images and text. It is not by chance that one of the images in the book is the painting Saint Jerome int its study, by Antonello da Messina (c. 1475), the patron saint of editors, booksellers, translators and humanists. For Miguel Ângelo Martins, painting is matter and colour, but it is also an ever-present genesic concept, worked in an expanded field. For Laura Pilar Delgado this is a painting thoroughly described by one of her reference authors, Georges Perec. This inveterate observer refers to the glacial religious space that furniture, objects, human and domestic animal presence make habitable. A space defined around the furniture — platform, bookshelf and desk — which in turn is organised around the book. The painting combines the rigour f the space perspective and the arrangement of the objects and other elements, relevant from an iconographic point of view, with the extreme tactility of the details and delicate capture of light. The windows that open onto the outside world establish a counterpoint with the saint’s concentration on reading and the world of books.
This installation, like the painting, is organised around books, bookshelves, rigorously arranged objects, and a space that offers views to the world outside. It is a dialoguing arrangement of elements that well reflects the interactive dynamics of the partnership of its authors. We find the chromatic options that favour local colour and the memory of place, so dear to Miguel Ângelo Martins, as well as the attention to everyday life things and spaces that make up the quest of Laura Pilar Delgado, who collects images and indexes from her wanderings and articulates them with an attraction for the geometry of forms and patterns.”
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Capela da Boa Viagem in Funchal on Madeira; this publication consists of:
- a stapled booklet with an introduction by Isabel Santa Clara, 26,5 x 17,5 cm, 12 not numbered pages;
- a loose print on thick stock showing an abstract pattern and with publication details printed on the back, 26,5 x 17,5 cm;
- a booklet with loose sheets containing archive images overlaid with semi-transparent abstract and rhythmic graphics, 27 x 18,5 cm, 24 not numbered pages;
- a folded poster displaying various methods of cutting and dividing round cakes, 26 x 39,5 cm.
Translation by Leticia Pérez Alonso, text in English and Portuguese, ed/100, Raum Editions no.8, Salamanca Funchal 2023
ISBN: 978-989-33-4367-8
