I was invited to premiere a new art space in Lisbon
The exhibition has a tight schedule, and i am going to be build it from scratch, i thought it could be a good idea to document the whle project.
The venue will be LiberOffice in the Chiado district of Lisbon, and the theme will be Chiado himself.

How to approach it ? It’s a widely know place with centuries of history and some over-photographed landmarks, so it will be a challenge to come up with something worth looking at.

Hockney on Art - David Hockney

When i was told in the first meeting what the theme was, the way to approach it quickly formed in my mind. And i have to thank David Hockey for it. I am currently reading his book “Hockney on Art” where he discusses among other thing the artificiality of one point perspective, and what he perceived as the inability of photography to overcome this. All his photo work was made in a attempt to fight against that, and then he applied what he had learned to his painted works.

Hockeny on Art

Ever since his Polaroid collages he was trying to get away from one point perspective, bringing cubism to photography.

Hockney on Art

But only with “pearblossom highway” he felt that he had gone as far as possible with photography and expansion of perspective.

Hockney on art

So, the theoretical base for my work his here, on the next post in the series i will discuss, the tools i will use, and the reasoning behind.