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Metropolis 4

Igor Gomes - 2015

Photography - Fineart printing on Canson Rag Protographique paper - Signed limited edition 1/10.

80,00 cm height x 120,00cm width x 0,10 cm depth

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Igor Gomes

“I see this being as if ‘en passant’ in the context – something furtive and phantasmagorical within a surrealist universe”

What might Salvador Dali (Spain), René Magritte (Belgium) and Edward Hopper (USA) – the three names that photographer Igor Gomes cites as personal artistic references – have in common? We are almost obliged to conclude: a certain solitude, loneliness, exclusion. Very different artists, with very different styles, but all provide representations of that exclusion, apparent feature of the contemporary world. All have influenced the eye of this self-trained photographer, who makes the metropolis his principal subject.

He approaches the urban sphere, and the absorption by it of today’s human being, who becomes: a solitary passer-by. The images have geometrical, architectural compositions, lines and curves permeated by the human being in situations that seem to be dislocated from this world.

“I see this being as if ‘en passant’ in the context – something furtive and phantasmagorical within a surrealist universe,” he explains. The image destructures itself, becoming almost abstract, surreal, a little fantastic, in a supernatural atmosphere.

Igor approaches the urban sphere, and the absorption by it of today’s human being, who becomes: a solitary passer-by. The image destructures itself, becoming almost abstract, surreal, a little fantastic.

He confesses that he portrays the romanticism of a non-existent world, using framing, cuts, shadowing and decentralization, to the point almost of embarrassment. His images differ from mere reproduction of the urban universe by establishing a futuristic universe in which the vertical and horizontal lines articulate into a wide variety of compositions. The aesthetic he proposes brings moments of intense reflection to the contemporary urban scene.

He recalls as a teenager being fascinated by the light and shade of his father’s brickworks in the interior of Paraná: shafts of light cut through cracks in the ceiling, in semidarkness, crossing dust and smoke from the furnaces, burning their tiles and bricks. He made his first images on an analogue camera, inspired by this scenario – through the holes in bricks, the geometric lines of tiles, the lights on the earthen floor and the corridors of shelves of wood – “It was a fantastic scenario,” he remembers. From then on, the practice of photography emerged naturally, for its pure pleasure.

In 1999, he had his first opportunity to show his images in an official exhibition. Since then he has participated intensely in art salons and exhibitions in Brazil, the US, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay – the most recent being Meu Brazil at the Bastille, in Paris, in 2018. He has two books of photographs published: Interior, in 2011; and Artektura e Divercidade, of 2017.

He was born in Curitiba, Paraná, and has a degree in geology. He recognizes that his artistic soul is intrinsically linked to science – to the mysteries of the universe that builds and destroys, the formation of the planet and its dynamics, and the absurd length of geological time – questions that call out his creativity and imagination.

“I choose photography because I appreciate the power that a static image has to sum up the dynamic of situations and interpretations; the strength and the simplicity that there is in an instant that is captured to tell one or several stories”, he says – a photographer who sees in his art an extension of himself.

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