Gabriela Machado
- Episode aired Aug 1, 2008
- 13m
Ideografo is a pilot documentary series on the universe of contemporary art. Here, the artist Gabriela Machado is invited to argue her work, her opinions and, mainly, her ideas on the panora... Read allIdeografo is a pilot documentary series on the universe of contemporary art. Here, the artist Gabriela Machado is invited to argue her work, her opinions and, mainly, her ideas on the panorama of Brazilian contemporary art.Ideografo is a pilot documentary series on the universe of contemporary art. Here, the artist Gabriela Machado is invited to argue her work, her opinions and, mainly, her ideas on the panorama of Brazilian contemporary art.
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Gabriela Machado: I always saw myself drawing, so I always looked at things, objects, through their contours.
Gabriela Machado: My work, which is a job, like, of seeking the essence of painting, is something that you have to be very turned inwards
Gabriela Machado: I'm a quiet person but I search a lot all the time, a search for form, a search for the essence of painting, the frisson of discomfort, I'm always looking for something that bothers me so that I can create a new look at things for these things to interest me
Gabriela Machado: I have a huge observation for the light of places
Gabriela Machado: I go to the street, I go to the fair, I look at the fruits, organic forms that interest me
Gabriela Machado: The choice of these objects, that thing that is not premeditated, that is placed, that is thrown and falls in the right place
Gabriela Machado: And sometimes naivety is the best thing to have
Gabriela Machado: And art is for everyone, right?
Gabriela Machado: And I think that as painting is an art of tradition that goes back centuries and centuries, you have a life to explore within that, right?
Gabriela Machado: I think I make use of history, because it's all in people's heads, but I think I bring a contemporary issue that is to take things that are outside the dogmas, so, thus, taking the truth out of the issue and trying to enter this void , reset everything, and not judge too, not think it's nothing
Gabriela Machado: For you to create you need to be free of prejudice, free of your certainties
Gabriela Machado: The big question is what are you going to paint, after Matisse, Picasso, what are you going to do
Gabriela Machado: I don't run after the beautiful, the beauty of painting, but rather things that are relevant to my look
Gabriela Machado: Painting is not studying it, it's making it
Gabriela Machado: Reflection is embedded in doing, it comes along, so the act of doing for me is very important
Gabriela Machado: I need to have, I have this anxiety that I have to do, do, do, and then get rid of this anguish with paint, with painting, what is that, you know
Gabriela Machado: I draw everything around me, and now I discovered the cats that came to live on my roof, and I keep drawing them all day long, and you have to draw very fast because they change position in 2 minutes, and that fast drawing speed and trying to get the essence of the cat shape, I like that a lot
Gabriela Machado: And it turns out that these drawings go a lot with my painting, a drawing that has a shape that starts and ends with itself, you know, circular like my paintings, everything is in the middle, everything is on target, right?
Gabriela Machado: The look is the same, I just choose different shapes, my attitude is somewhat the same for all jobs.
Gabriela Machado: My time is all dedicated to being in the studio
Gabriela Machado: My atelier is my habitat, where I bring all these things, all this information that my gaze chooses
Gabriela Machado: It is very important to have a work discipline, a day-to-day discipline in the atelier
Gabriela Machado: My work is not a work of color, I do not think about color, it is not a thought out color, it comes, it has to come without thinking, because it is not a work of color, color is not the structure of the work, and it is not a work of gesture, of expressionism of the gesture, it is a work that goes through the epidermis
Gabriela Machado: I start with small drawings, and my way of working is, I put together a still life, like a stacked tangerine peel, it's usually a small thing, and I just look at that, I don't look at the drawing I'm making , it's a blind flight, this is my strategy, so as not to be trapped by my certainties
Gabriela Machado: I have to draw with my left hand, I have to draw with the hand I'm not used to drawing
Gabriela Machado: This way I draw without looking, what I'm doing is to surprise me
Gabriela Machado: While doing these works, there comes a time when I think I can go to the big painting, and I leave everything ready, and when I go to the big job I'm in some pictorial trance that I'm already sure my hand will do right
Gabriela Machado: I can never paint standing up, facing the canvas, because I'll be watching, then it's going to be a wrist painting, it's not going to be a body painting
Gabriela Machado: So that's how it is, it's doing through the look that passes through the body, and the body projects my work
Gabriela Machado: Painting for me, it cannot have a composition, it cannot be composed, it does not have figure and background, and the paint is literally thrown, as if it were a stamp, and this thing that is not a gesture and is not a color, she is light and she passes through the epidermis, she is corporeal
Gabriela Machado: So I think, we spend a lifetime for a job, it's a dedication to this search for the essence, you know, trying to understand the world through art
Gabriela Machado: You have to have this leisure, you have to have this time left over for this
Gabriela Machado: And art cannot be of the hour, art has a long life
Gabriela Machado: And that is the main characteristic of a good work, when it has freshness, you know, it has a freshness, that thing, you know, remains, and anyone feels it
Gabriela Machado: When something happens, it really happens, in essence, it happens, it is independent of everything, the process that was done, anything you do, be it through photography, video, cinema, any media, if there is truth there, it will happen
Gabriela Machado: So, my painting is not a painting of looking, it is a painting of throwing oneself, of blind flight, of projecting the body, of having mass, of having this pulsation, you know, of anxiety
Gabriela Machado: No other means would give me so much satisfaction.
Gabriela Machado: I think that art has a huge function because it is a reflection of society, so it is the result of everything that is being lived here, now, but it is not now that you see it
Gabriela Machado: I think without art it's hard to live
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