JOSÉ MADE A FEW PIECES A WHILE AGO AND TOLD ME TO GO TO HIS STUDIO TO SEE THEM. (SOME OF WHICH WERE NOT YET FINISHED, WHICH IS ALWAYS ALL THE MORE PLEASURABLE). THESE WERE A TON OF OBJECTS. NO, THEY WERE SETS OF OBJECTS. IN FACT, THERE COULD BE A SINGLE OBJECT. I MEAN, THEY WERE THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE CERTAIN OBJECTS, AND IN THE END COULD BE JUST ONE. ALL OF THEM WERE BOTH WORK AND SUPPORT FOR OTHER WORKS AT THE SAME TIME. COMING ACROSS AS AN ALPHABET, THE DIFFERENT SIGNS ALLOWED INFINITE COMBINATIONS. THE APPARENT FAMILIARITY OF THOSE FORMS WAS, HOWEVER, CHANGED EITHER BY THE FOREIGNNESS OF THE SCALE OR BY SUBTLE DISTORTIONS. EVEN THOSE WHO I THOUGHT TO BE NAMEABLE MADE ME UNCOMFORTABLE.
PERHAPS THE VIBRANT COLOURS AND THE PLASTICITY OF THE MATERIALS SUGGESTED THAT ALL THE OBJECTS HAVE A HIDDEN PLAYFUL POTENTIAL, AS IF EVERYDAY LIFE WAS A PECULIAR GAME.
WHAT’S MORE THE MATERIALS, EITHER MATTE OR SHINY; SOME OF APPARENT HARDNESS, OTHERS, I WOULD SAY, JUST PAINT, AWAKENED MY SENSE OF TOUCH.
AN ATTENTION TO THE SENSUALITY OF FORMS AND MATTER ITSELF, FUNDAMENTAL IN MODERNISM, IS ALSO VERY PRESENT IN JOSÉ'S WORK. HIS SCULPTURES, DESPITE ITS APPARENT UTILITARIANISM, HAVE AN OVERALL APPEAL TO FANTASY - TO DESIRE, BORN OUT OF THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ITS UNEQUIVOCAL UNDERSTANDING.
FRANCISCO CORREIA.
PLEASE CONTACT IF YOU KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE PURPLE MAN
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