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Open Space Office
In the photographic series Open Space Office, by Tito Mouraz, the industrial landscapes - presented in abstract and fragmented images - are shown through a plastic acuity, reflected in his work by the use of light, colour, focus and clarity. Here the relation of the body to the landscape is central, highlighted through movement and time passed, seeking a three-dimensional contact with the place. The transience of these landscapes is shown in its constant transfigurations, through the edifying determination of humanity and the regenerative drive of nature itself.
The human presence is more evident in some photographs, when we are presented with images of its machines of transformation, indicating an activity from the past, or the pressing immediacy of the future. The resulting images present us with a provisional reality, slowly modifying its shape, and which lives, irreversibly, in a permanently changing state.
Gaze-Sculptor
In the EinaudiEncyclopaedia, for the entry “Ruína/Restauro”, Carlo Carena (quoting), states that landscape is nature seen through culture. After the immanent Romanticism – truth is an intrinsic part of art - as well as anti-Illuminist, obviously no landscape released itself from this “cultural nature”, in which both poles, nature and culture, configure a thought of their own and a knowledge form. Nature becomes inseparable from the human and, shall we say, archetypal, remote presence, having dissolved and geminated the human trace in the land, under the shape of carcasses of buildings and ruins - which in fact are as alive as shrubs and forests.
Open Space OfficeUm paraíso que é fatal
Vidal, Carlos, in "Sábado", ed. 471, 05/2013
O autor não produz a desolação: o espaço em volta é que está desvitalizado. Estas pedreiras são perturbadoras: espaços fechados terminam em riachos verdes e azuis – cujas águas são mortais.
A côr destes desfiladeiros de mármore é sanguinolenta, mas por vezes o lado paradisíaco espreita. Um paraíso fatal.Open Space OfficeOpen Space Office
The series presented here was shot in Portugal over a 3-year period and represents a transformed landscape that portrays the existence of Man as a constructive, reconstructive and contemplative being. The landscape appears completely and irreversibly transformed and it was this transformation that caught my eye and fueled my interest in conducting this project, basing it on this very landscape.
Open Space Office