O jogo do parêntesis : interações e interposições na pintura

The present work project, entitled The Game of Parenthesis: Interactions and Interpositions in Painting, intends to reflect around two aspects that were constitutional pillars of my work in painting in the last two years: interactions and interpositions. From its totality (that always has as a background, the notion of interactions and interpositions in painting), the first part focuses more directly around a game idea: the game as interaction between elements. In this first part, I discourse about the act of painting as analogous to the act of playing (Playing with Painting) and about a pictorial process that understands painting as a game field in which confrontation occurs and establish themselves (Painting Games). I also pass through matters as repetition in painting, the use of diptychs and other reflections about the group Chessboards. The second part of this work project introduces, in a more vivid way, the notion of interpositions in painting. It is evidenced through the text Between Parenthesis that, similar to the first part, it conducts to reflections upon two painting groups: Envelopes and Whispers. In Envelopes, subjects such as materiality in painting, abstraction in painting and the choice to name abstract paintings with figurative titles are presented. In Whispers, reflections that emerge from painting and are involved with matters of similarity and difference, appearance and essence, judgment, inclusion, mutability, reconfiguration and perspective are investigated. The third part of this work project concentrates in a text proposing a possible structural relation between painting and verbal language, resulting from the body of work that has been consolidating since and some of my perceptions after reading through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. The presentation of the last group of paintings (Jottings) closes the work