Associação Mutualista Montepio presents the exhibition "Blue Grid" by the Portuguese artist Pedro Besugo, between June the 23rd and July the 22nd, at atmosfera m, in Lisbon.
The show is curated by Graça Rodrigues and Sónia Ribeiro and brings together about 40 works of painting, drawing and assemblage - mostly unpublished - produced between 2019 and the present.
"Blue Grid" produces the encounter with the work of Pedro Besugo, whose artistic practice translates into a diachronic structuring of latent affirmation in the modalities of articulation of the stain and the stroke, which, for a long time, have been boasted in his travel notebooks in an essayistic form.
The show explores the subjectivity of the pre-theoretical concepts of space and time through the relationship between the notions of tri- and bi-dimensionality, visually establishing, in a concrete way, a division between the forms of the materiality of architecture - in stylized representation - and the painting that references it.
It displays a series marked by a complex web of crossed references that Pedro Besugo groups in different visual combinations and through which he evidences the rationalist and hierarchical character that the articulation of color and line occupies in his expression.
A model where containment lines are allegedly imposed, where apparently the canon, the frugality, and the poetics of the norm rule, but where, in fact, through the subversion of principles, the artist allows himself to reconfigure the real, mental, corporeal, optical, and visual space, to affirm it in subjectivity.
Atmosfera m, Lisbon, Rua Castilho, nº 5
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