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To immediately look, the work of Florian Raiss and Paul von Poser can prove opposites. The limitations and conflicts of man versus the immaculate love of roses or well defined shapes City. However, after a deeper observation, notes a strong complementarity indicated by the research of human beings in their subversion by representations that depict their expectations. At rational resistance to be animal impulses, humanity is expressed through its symbols, its metaphors.

Orbits on display, the artists converse on a surface without beginning or end, enhancing the perceived image space and allowing analysis by the viewer.

Necessary condition for the assertion of the orbit, the influence of a star, ou hug, on the other was used so subtle. Florian and Paul thought of 17 spheres as, by the way, They make the viewer can never see both sides simultaneously, in other words, only part of the truth is revealed, while the other is formed by the imagination of the one who sees the work and recreate according to their reality.

Thus we return to the subjects studied by two artists for more than 30 anos: man as author and revealer of his own condition and its surroundings. The imagination not as a state, but as human existence itself, como definiu William Blake.

Happiness walks the walk
Praça Antonio Prado in
Are 10 Blue Hour
The coffee goes high as the morning of skyscrapers
(Poem "Aperitivo", the Oswald de Andrade)

The coffee goes high as the morning of skyscrapers
(Poem "Aperitivo", the Oswald de Andrade)The distance really is not allied Love, but this statement loses some of its force when the given example is the relationship between Paul von Poser and the city center of Sao Paulo.

Born and raised Santo Amaro (region where even been done plebiscite to emancipate the metropolis), in 19 October 1960, and now living on the margins of Guarapiranga, Paul does not measure time and efforts to woo the city center. The artist shows his congested arteries, crosses Sol chuva, carries the weight of backpacks and bags only to find the center of Sao Paulo again.

Once there, what a superhero love, Your next step is to scale your buildings, achieve their balconies, reach the top and, ultimately, portray your love in all angles. Are 360 ​​° of admiration.

Dali do high, Paul sees further, can admire the entire body of the city, feel your heartbeat, observe office boys and anonymous executives, passing hasty and that little notice in its beauty. The metropolis returns to province.

Do alto, Paul realizes that his beloved older with dignity and furtive kisses. But fleeting encounters, that last light of the sun and the expedient of offices. Paul needs to go down.

Those moments will remain drawings, in which Paul declares his passion to Anhangabaú Valley, the Teatro Municipal, Tea the Viaduct, Largo São Francisco, Praça do Patriarca, à Rua 15 November, to Copan Building…

Childhood sweetheart

The loving journey of Paul von Poser through downtown yet begun in childhood, in years 60, and the hands of parents, Fernando and his mistress Zelia, who came to the shop on Saturdays. "We lived Santo Amaro, it was almost another city. He loved going with my parents and go to the shopping Mappin and beg for trinkets hardly win… Exit the parking lot of the building Zarvos, on the streets of Consolation, pass in front of Mario de Andrade Library and finally see the Municipal Theatre there in the street Xavier de Toledo… She loved holding hands with my mother in the crowd, feeling safe and guided. I've always loved the crosswalks, lists on the floor and umbrellas bumping… This stunning and hypnotic intersection, this choreography hurry on sidewalks, passes through the galleries amid storefronts, the rise and fall of the elevator Mappin… Third floor: toys and stationery…”, recalls the artist.

But to demonstrate their love for the city Paul was even louder and flew through the skies aboard the airship Ventura, which until recently, before the Clean City Law, he advertised Good Year by city skyscraper. Dali do high, Paul and photographer Cristina Guerra recorded the widest of all urban landscapes: the city of São Paulo.

It is these memories and the memories of other updates that Paul in his drawings and photographs. With her expressive features, rapid, Eager and inaccurate, the artist retraces his memories, draws a poetic iconography of the city and tries to open the eyes of passersby to the harsh beauty of its corners.

Love of youth

A passion for design was born in 1978, when Paul von Poser joined FAU (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the USP). "FAU was in the act of drawing appeared… It was learned that the FAU to have friends ", says the artist, that there graduated architect, in 1982.

Among his teachers of those early days, Paul speaks fondly Flávio Motta, that was never his formal teacher, "But gave master classes and concerts aesthetics will never forget". Renin and still recalls Katz Odiléa Toscano, in drawing and printmaking, Ana Maria Belluzzo, by do you see the relationship between art and urban life.
Another striking memory was his meeting with the teacher, teacher and colleague Flavio Empire, it has been with artist and scenographer he began teaching.

As their love for city, Paul's love for drawing was not saved, but has always been shared with tens, hundreds, thousands of students who met in institutions like the Centro Cultural São Paulo (in the office of arts), the educational sector of the Bienal de São Paulo (18Th and 19th edition, in 1985 and 1987, cured by Sheila Leirner), the very FAU-USP (when did Masters), the Faculty of Architecture of Fine Arts (then located in the building of the Pinacoteca do Estado), and FAAP (a course in graphic design), the School of Architecture and Urbanism of Saints (adoption by your city, where he teaches there 25 years ago and where he painted the ceiling of the foyer and the audience's Theater Guarany) and, more recently, School City and the Casa do Saber.

Amor maduro

But behold, to 50 anos, with heart already marked by so many bygone loves and coming, future and past tenses, here comes a new discovery, a new gift, a new rescue: a gravura. Herself, who had previously flirted with the artist, returns reinvigorated, filled with new perspectives and enthusiasm.

Encouraged and directed by the writer Claudio Vasques, Santos, plunges into the copper plates on them and reveals new images of its known old, the city and roses, from various materials and techniques, as drypoint, etching, middle-tints, Rats…

"I write with my niece Vic a video about my little 'script covers'. I bought two sheets of float in the House and went to the Praça Antonio Prado, where recorded with drypoint tree in the square, the large building and then the peak of the Jaragua… I am also going by bus to Santos and I will continue recording on the same plate the Serra do Mar and then, the video, processes in metal acid, in ink and press… After the back plate with print on paper… I want to make a short documentary that the comment that the engraving on metal added me on the perception of the city ", Paul says about their new paths in the picture.

Eternal Love

The city of São Paulo, drawing and printmaking share space in the hearts and imagination of Paul von Poser with another passion, also lasting: roses. To elas, Paul has already made thousands of drawings, photographs and prints and they devoted some individual exposures.

The earliest memories of the flower refer to childhood with her maternal grandmother, Edith, who painted roses, but his interest in flower manifested much later. "The first rose I drew was 84, to 24 years. "

Paul began to draw roses because they lived alone in São Paulo, and his company were the best flowers. The hobby turned into something serious 1989, when his drawings appeared in the Museum of Contemporary Art Calendar.

De lá for Breast Cancer, Paul played with the pencil, Acrylic, chalk, pastel seco, nankin, wood trimmed, wrought iron, ceramics, brass and copper fastened on paper, fabrics, tissues, Dishwasher, dishcloths, shirts, Havaianas and packaging soap.

"But I have to remember one fact: suddenly emerged two things together: the rose and the city of São Paulo. A union of opposites contained therein, cement and petal, concrete and poetry. But even that comes to mind, sincerely, is the day I was born. It was weird. São Paulo was the first grandchild of a gaucho family. I think this is the birth of the rose in São Paulo. That junction was I who brought, I must admit. Eu vinguei. Survived… Today drawing my infatuation with everything rushed, with things, with people, life and art itself. My job is as an offering of all that I am and live ", summarizes the Artist.

To immediately look, the work of Florian Raiss and Paul von Poser can prove opposites. The limitations and conflicts of man versus the immaculate love of roses or well defined shapes City. However, after a deeper observation, notes a strong complementarity indicated by the research of human beings in their subversion by representations that depict their expectations. At rational resistance to be animal impulses, humanity is expressed through its symbols, its metaphors.

Orbits on display, the artists converse on a surface without beginning or end, enhancing the perceived image space and allowing analysis by the viewer.

Necessary condition for the assertion of the orbit, the influence of a star, ou hug, on the other was used so subtle. Florian and Paul thought of 17 spheres as, by the way, They make the viewer can never see both sides simultaneously, in other words, only part of the truth is revealed, while the other is formed by the imagination of the one who sees the work and recreate according to their reality.

Thus we return to the subjects studied by two artists for more than 30 anos: man as author and revealer of his own condition and its surroundings. The imagination not as a state, but as human existence itself, como definiu William Blake.

April 1886. The superstar Sarah Bernhardt says goodbye to Oscar Wilde in Bordeaux embarking on tour in South America: received by the emperor of Brazil D. Pedro II, interpreta Fedra, de Racine (My Favourite Tragedy), no Rio, and perpetuates its passage in Santos when he was injured onstage at Guarany: the imposing São Paulo theater would be marked to represent the splendor of Coffee, of Belle Epoque and urbanization. Thus relates in his diary: “There is a magnificent place, even with yellow fever, Santos: where the sea can be seen from a virgin forest in all its splendor”.

The Guarany, Established in 7 December 1882, civilization was of a rare warmth and a swampy city with everything to be done, at the expense of slave sweat and the coming of the immigrants who toil reporiam the captives freed.

Benedicto Calixto gained notoriety with its frescoes and sumptuous decor. From construction to its revival from the ashes, Guarany had helped support the civil society maintains and impeding the extinction. Reerguido, I felt great joy in knowing that history refilled your dash in our fate; Calixto's work was now in the hands of one of the most precious original Brazilian artists: Paul von poser, highly sensitive architect, meticulous restorer and painter more characteristic of a country called Sampa. Von Poser remakes on large screens or meticulous ink drawings of the city or the route of Rugendas Franz transmodern Post.

“There is nothing more difficult for a painter than to paint a rose, because before it needs to forget all the roses that were planted”, diz Matisse. Could be the cultivator of roses cosmic: Von poser.

No Guarany, without being hyperbolic, their nights spent over scaffolding are worthy of a Michelangelo of the tropics. Present in biennial, set designer, multimedia shaker, is able to pictorially scan the metropolis of an airship from the air of Paulicéia with the same skill millimeter delighted that blooms with roses synesthetic: more than the painter of roses and Sampa, and explorer of the soul through rare perspective, tempering and “rumor” City of colors.

In his work, Paul von Poser makes harvesting the evanescências, sows from infinity transience: is the painter of a time torn petals, non-accumulator of debris: creator of beautiful deep as a laborer “viscerally of regular structures” (Levi-Strauss).

Santos! When you glimpse the dome and walls of a microscopic intricacy under the aegis of Carlos Gomes and José de Alencar, have the dimension of the effort made by this artisan concrete poetry: the carved chromatically undying art in Piazza Andrada will tell us: a genius passed through here…Paul von Poser has been present in Brazil for Santos.

Calixto should be saying amen.

Paul von Poser is one of Brazilian artists that most concern me: Few reflect content with such mastery by remaking the continent obsessed route, transmodern of signs in the reflection of their desdobraduras. Sampa is more metonymic metropolis Globe: without topography, no wider horizon is able to prove in its entirety by the more secluded parts of rhizomes or fluids.

Is this Sampa Von Poser: Precious angle, fleeting glance of a blimp or impersonal suite of a luxury hotel. The cause for effect, content by continent (I emphasize) provided by the object that is made equipment:
the snapshot is retained metaphor for our bewilderment.
Impossible not to quote Walter Benjamin on the artwork: “(…) nature that speaks to the camera is completely different from talking to the eyes , mainly because it replaces the space where the man knowingly acts by another where its action is unconscious” .

Immersed / emerged, Kinetic: reminds me of all 'profiles' that retain Sampa; the ultimate impact of Copan was gore from the terrace of a “Center Maria Antonia”: the great national art is experienced in Sampa, Von Poser is one of its most intuitive Pathfinders. Far beyond the painter of roses! Now is a Benedito Calixto rebuilding “Teatro Guarany” Santos almost 150 years in animistic load meticulously retouched by this architect who teaches in the streets where the poetic concreteness is night / day built and transmuted.

I think of when I read Paul “Invisible Cities” Italo Calvino and a sentence of Matisse who sensed that sweet universal paulistano done the density of his work: “There is nothing more difficult for a painter than to paint a rose, because before that he needs to be forget all the roses that were ever painted.” There Art, There are artists: delineators tessituras who ruminate persistence of the deviation and the tenacity dalguma durable perception: Artist is charming evanescências: a rose is not a rose ever since Gertrude Stein said Paul Von Poser or magically mimicked. Pink and urban chaos still retain cosmogonies and the genesis of the subject as a witness to the absolute divine absurdly available:unaware of something more fragile than monumentality of Sampa: immensity that engalfinha by gray bins dalgum everyday purpose and your descomeço.

Sampa ends in nothing done thought the restart. City made it descabaçando petals.

Grande Paulo Von Poser!

She was serious when I said: “I'll be yours on the day you bring me a rose of white petals and orange houses inside the hearts that loved, I played with hearts, hearts disappoint”. How she wanted, went in search, knowing only that the rose was encased in a box that was inside another box, inside another box, and so on. So many boxes sound rose petals. “When you find”, she warned, “will have to make the game wants me evil, well for me either, so that when you get to the last heart, What is your, will need to match well for me either. Yup, has no way of knowing, will play at random, Love things like this happen, at random. Also can not cheat, love based on fraud ends crumbling. What can I do to help it deliver a white rose and orange, as was seen by Paul von Poser, as anyone who knows roses, gave herself entirely to them, lives delas, is reciprocated by them. Do not ever seek the complicity of Von Poser, to reveal the secrets, saying the number of hearts that are hidden inside. I can tell you where the box, since love does not demand concessions and help. Feeling mar, a 700 feet deep, Saved by a fish, whose teeth are thorns afflicting. The problem is that the fish fell in love with me and will not let anyone near the box, so that its mission is impossible. You should retort: for those who are passionate, There is not impossible. It's what you expect, I'm dreamer, Romantic, full of illusions. Wish there was a box so, with this pink inside, with hearts that loved me hidden in the petals, as in the old stories. Who would not? Who does not love a thing, inadmissible, inconceivable, unlikely, unbelievable? No fundo, my love, this rose there in my heart and it's up to you to get it, without fear of thorns Love. Why invent it all? Because the problem of everyday life is that reality without fantasy is meaningless. Love without madness is boredom”.

Here and there, seems to me that Von Poser put sharp bottles. Ou sombras. Or thorns out of place, because the stem should be. Or causes the play of illusions, one of the functions of the artist. I see and if you want you can also see an eye in the center of the rose, semioculto. La Vie em Rose cantaram Charles Trenet and Edith Piaf. Life as we would like. Rosettes lit cathedrals and told stories. Compass, directions. Pink: o frescor. What we know of roses? Symbols of regeneration, it has been, over millennia, considered the cup of life. For Christians it is the cup which collected the blood of Christ, therefore, evokes the Grail. In the litany, Our Lady is remembered as Mystic Rose. The rose is the soul and the rose gold fourth Sunday of Lent means resurrection and immortality. Ah, and roses Santa Therese of Jesus that bring thanks to the receive? It is not known to flower age, but there is evidence that found in the United States that would 35 millions of years. Yup, clear, found the fossil of a rose, but scientists, with all his coolness and equipment, can see things in poetry. Roses are cited of Solomon, one of the most beautiful texts of love of humanity. Roses in ancient Greece were white, but turned red, when stained by the blood of Aphrodite bail was mortally wounded Adonis. The white and red mixed formed Pink, flower color. Homer refers to it to describe sunrise. Achilles was embalmed in rose water. No Eastern, where it says that the rose came, Garden of Roses created by Josefina, wife of Napoleon; he made war, ela plantava flores. The spectrum of the Rose, danced by Nijinsky, marks the beginning of modern dance. Put Dante in the Divine Comedy, the last circle of Paradise, when the faithful lover Beatrice arrives there. No Paradise, Dante acquires new visual capacity, immaterial to the proper means, made of pure light. And the Mystical Rose. Tom Jobim placed it in the MPB: “Look, it's raining in rosebush, that only gives pink but does not smell”. And Shakespeare opens one of his sonnets:”Of all the creatures we adore / a rose is one whose beauty should never die”.

Pink, roseiral, rosettes plastic forming the current vocabulary von Poser, young artist a few years ago, love-is by elas, a very special way, elevating them to the inspirational power of his work station.

The artist Paul von Poser must have thought much the writer Gertrude Stein during the last eight years, period comes architecting shows “Sea of ​​Roses”, which opens tomorrow at the Ox Space.

Taking into account the absolute maximum Stein, who says “a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”, Paul did your garden grow this, Acrylic and ink.

Are drawings, fabrics, transparencies, wooden cutouts and even stained glass and ceramics depicting the most iconic flowers: a rosa.

“I'm always surprised by the symbolic power of pink, which may mean the heart of Mary in Catholicism, be the symbol of regeneration in Muslim culture and also be offered to Yemanja, said artist and illustrator Leaf.

The history shows:

Until the year 1988, Scattered roses appeared in the artist's work. That year, Paul held a series of drawings that served to calendar the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Last year, however, made a series of clear drawings with pen and ink on parchment, which became the first branch of the rosebush-exposure.

Although the method of work of an exhibition as “Sea of ​​Roses” basically be watching, Paul refuses to speak in playback. “The danger of a show is like falling into stylization, I know that when I want the rose to be present. There are many roses in my head, I did seeing or imagining people”, said.

Paul bought her roses-models in Ceasa, darts Mondays, fotografou-as, Xerox fez them, dozens, hundreds… Paul worked hard in winter, when roses take longer to open.

This observation was also detailed that originated ceramic gifts on show, conducted in partnership with Cecilia Becker. Realizing the fall of a petal in your home on the floor, Paul thought of the ceramic, created from rest from a flat sheet of clay itself on a form, without having the pressure of hands and fingers. Only the natural home of the blade shaped clay pottery.

“This show took a lot of my class observation. With her, I realized what it really means the contemplation of art in my life”, said. “his eight years, became clear that interested me was sitting with pink. And the sequence of drawings (exposed right on Ox Space) let me clear that beauty is not in the roses, but in his way.”

Details:

Some details need attention to the part “Sea of ​​Roses”. The first are calls. Made from 200 original drawings and manipulated on a Xerox machine colored, turned on 3.000 invitations, all different. Save your!

It is also interesting to note that q harmony exposure gained with the inclusion of stained glass and ceramics. With them, a full circle shows that merges with the life cycle of the rose itself.

More of the drawings and paintings, Roses are the stained-Paul that need light to exist and only live through it. At the other end, your roses ceramic-born of the earth and only because the attraction of Earth. Ceramics, drawings and stained glass windows complement, as the three parts of an ikebana.

JOURNAL Folha de Sao Paulo, NOTEBOOK Illustrated, 27 MAY 1996.

These drawing roses are part of a vast array ranging from the design of direct observation of nature to the stage where it emerges a picture that could be taken as a mandala. The representation of the integration / decomposition, diffuse / concentrated, the indoor / outdoor, and the feeling that life has found its meaning and its order, typical of the symbolism of the mandala, become clear in the drawings of 2m x 2m which were not included in this calendar, because it is essential that they be viewed in its full scale.