Tuesday 24 February 2009

guillaume vieira












|Untitled(s) from the serie Don’t tell me when to stop II (after John McCracken), 120 x 120 cm each, lambda print on paper , Edition of 3, 2009, Exhibition view Novas Aquisições, at Museu Bernardo, Caldas da Rainha, 2009|

Don’t tell me when to stop II (after John McCracken)

The connection between Sintra to the to monuments Palácio da Pena and Castelo dos Mouros is made by a road that crosses the Forest of Sintra, sign that allowed the vile to become the symbol of Romanticism in Portugal. The distance between the concepts Castle and Palace became an etymological statement for several attends on the road in a research on how to visually accept a ,road and the walls when surrounded by forest.