Objetos gravados: uma experimentação poética a partir da técnica de gravura em metal

Abstract

This research explores metal sheet carving from the technique of intaglio. Each "trampled object" is inspired by the study of medieval illuminations images (from the tenth century to the fifteenth century), where the ornament is the focus of artistic creation. In this dissertation, I present my understanding of the term "intaglio" and I define my plastic work as "trampled objects" because using the nomenclature "matrix" requires a series of procedures that are ignored by me at the moment, namely, the imprinting of copies. However, I develop the technique of intaglio using metal sheets of copper and yellow brass, which are displayed directly to the public, in other words, without the traditional pattern of the resulting imprinting. Contemporary visual artists who also exhibit metal sheets [Laurita Salles (1952), Ana Alice Francisquetti (1955) and Otilia Carrique (1954)] are quoted and used to point out the central question guiding this research: the possibility of making metal sheets, which were seen as part of the process of intaglio, come to aesthetics fruition. I briefly comment on some relations of illuminations with the work developed, as it is inspired by medieval ornaments. I analyze some points of interest in the history of illumination and also comment on some contemporary paradigms of art from the thought of Yves Michaud (2008) mainly. Finally, I display to the reader the works developed during this survey. I also broach about the technical elaboration of the works, reporting all the way traced in the atelier, and argument on each of the four sets of engraved objects created (Pequenos Portais, Detalhes Iluminados, Citações Medievais and Filigranas), comparing them to images of some illuminations studied.