auroras and Sé are pleased to present an exhibition with works by Tadáskía and Leonilson. In free dialogue, drawings and paintings share symbolic gestures of a lack of decorum in relation to the rectangular boundaries that traditionally shaped “two-dimensional” works. The forms that occupy these irregular spaces also remain at the limit between a suggestive figuration – also by the titles – and more or less abstract organic forms.
These elements always seem to be in relation to each other. From one object, subject or form with the other. In the drawings of Tadáskía the shapes affect each other, deform them in a possible immanent contact. These relationships are developed in small polyptychs in the artist’s work which, on the one hand, gives a certain movement to these interactions between forms, but also reiterates a pattern by the repetition of the same support size, even if altered in different points. Each group uses a type of colored paper on which the artist intervenes with different materials, colored pencil and graphite, nail polish and face illuminator.
The poetics that Leonilson developed in little more than a decade, going through the eighties and the beginning of the following decade, also took on different types of supports. From drawings on paper to the use of loose canvas and fabrics. Over them, Leonilson often chooses a moderate arrangement of the inscriptions, resulting in small solitary figures or with a few companions. These drawn figures and spaces activate, in some way, the support, making the “voids” that involve the small drawings acquire a certain materiality.
In this way, the works of these two artists seem interested in exploring what this support has to offer, where it can be torn and where what was then considered “normal” is challenged to acquire new materialities.
