![]() By the entrance, she invites the audience to activate a set of canvases on a plinth ( Protótipo), to experiment with its various possible formations. Cardoso and Piwowarska decided to develop the next, Portuguese stage of the project, inviting local and international artists who investigate the same realm.įor the Footnote 15: As Prototype exhibition Cardoso contributes the installation of several panels completed in 2022. Interestingly, her work corresponds deeply with achievements of Brazilian Neo-Concrete movement of the 1960’s, and especially Lygia Clark. Kobro had developed her abstract compositions in the 1920–30’s in relation to the viewer’s body, unifying time-space, upholding the rhythm of human life, and in discussion with the Constructivist legacy, Neo-Plasticism, and Concrete Art. As a project on the margins of history and the avant-gardes, it explored the extraordinary and lesser-known reception of Kobro’s work, both in South and North America in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Coincidently, Kobro was also Piwowarska’s point of departure for her ongoing “footnote project” that commenced in 2010 in Warsaw. Cardoso showed Piwowarska a prototypical idea for a group exhibition, in which hers and other contemporary paintings would dialogue with abstract works by the Polish-Russian sculptor Katarzyna Kobro whose practice pivoted between Constructivism and Unism. The conversation between the two started in 2020 at Ana Cardoso’s studio. This project is an ongoing collaboration between Ana Cardoso – Portuguese artist based in Lisbon and New York, and Barbara Piwowarska – Polish curator based in Porto where she works at Casa São Roque. Footnote 15 aims to explore the prototypical in the works of Portuguese, Polish, Brazilian, Argentinian and American artists of different generations, whose practice shares the avant-garde languages of modular systems and geometric abstraction. The prototype can be understood as a model subject to modification – it can be developed, or it can remain undeveloped. A prototype is an early form given to a material.
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