memorial do granito - Rodolfo Valente
from Ramos by Luciane Cardassi
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memorial do granito (2015) by Rodolfo Valente www.rodolfovalente.com.br
“One cannot respond to granite with a child’s anger” writes Gaston Bachelard in his book Earth and Reveries of Will. Granite imposes its own time, a time with the hardness of stone. It is the active time established in the relationship between the artisan’s effort and the stone’s resistance. Only one who often visits the stone can learn its own time, its impersonal diction, its cold morality, its concrete poetics, its compact economy. Nothing of that is known by the kings we read about in books. In Thebes of the Seven Gates, the remaining stones hold only the memory of the hands which worked them.
In its own terms, memorial do granito is an investigation of non-narrative dialectics between the elements ‘earth’ and ‘air’, which are suggested on several levels: the solid aspect of the instrumental gestures as opposed to the weightless quality of the electronic sounds, the confrontation between specific gestures and different frequency ranges, and the play between sudden interruptions and fluid connections.
“One cannot respond to granite with a child’s anger” writes Gaston Bachelard in his book Earth and Reveries of Will. Granite imposes its own time, a time with the hardness of stone. It is the active time established in the relationship between the artisan’s effort and the stone’s resistance. Only one who often visits the stone can learn its own time, its impersonal diction, its cold morality, its concrete poetics, its compact economy. Nothing of that is known by the kings we read about in books. In Thebes of the Seven Gates, the remaining stones hold only the memory of the hands which worked them.
In its own terms, memorial do granito is an investigation of non-narrative dialectics between the elements ‘earth’ and ‘air’, which are suggested on several levels: the solid aspect of the instrumental gestures as opposed to the weightless quality of the electronic sounds, the confrontation between specific gestures and different frequency ranges, and the play between sudden interruptions and fluid connections.
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released September 30, 2019
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