Between the Body and the Structure

Mármores

Because with time, Maria-Carmen’s torsos volumes come undone into skins. Then sudden epiphanies arise, moments when the skin coincides with the plane, moments when the volumetry reduced to its minimum coincides with the planar and non-projective dimension.

The corporeal sums up to the epidermic and thus anticipates the sort of scarce material density characteristic of Maria-Carmen’s poetics: spiritualise the matter through amorous treatment, free it from its weight and opacity to turn it into pure aesthetic appearance.

In this neutral marble, without interiority, what matters is the surface. Frequently, it is treated like a simple plaster model, compressed to its minimal thickness, destitute from its force of gravity, keeping the visible mark of hands.

Ronaldo Brito

Hercules nº8, 1983
Marble
60x15x20cm

Triceps nº12, 1983
Marble
30x22x12cm

The Joy of Life nº19,1984
Marble
62x15x19cm

Mont-Blanc nº57_A, 1990
Marble
74x28x46cm

Skin nº193, 1993
Marble
19x107x21cm

Skin nº175, 1993
Marble
3x72x25cm

Léger Nº58, 1987
Marble
50x72x20cm

Vertebra nº78, 1989
Marble
35x51x38cm

Pill nº63, 1988
Marble
35x62x36cm

Dancer nº70, 1988
Marble
28x49x34cm

Extase (Saint Theresa) nº79, 1989
Marble
29x36x36cm

Fountain nº81, 1989
Marble
31x23x39cm

Kneeling nº86, 1990
Marble
37x50x69cm

Anemone nº120, 1991
Marble
20x32x30cm

Grace nº89, 1990
Marble
19x28x26cm

Tatu nº97_B, 1991
Marble and lead wire
33x37x69cm

Lemon nº93_B, 1990
Marmore and brass wire
10x38x8.5cm

Ears nº103, 1990
Marble
47x32x30cm

Manta ray nº99, 1990
Marble
22x40x31cm

Coiffe nº100, 1990
Marble
22x33x30cm

Body nº104, 1990
Marble and leadwire
11x37x33cm

Little bones nº106, 1991
Marble
14x29x17cm

Filet mignon nº136, 1992
Marble
7x16x80cm

Lint nº139, 1992
Marble
8x8x163cm

Scarf nº141, 1992
Marble
14x31x33cm

Sighs nº151, 1992
Marble
8x9x8cm

Maria Mole nº159, 1993
Marble
6x10x45cm

Chicken breast nº190, 1993
Marble
5x35x37cm

Palmilha nº167_A, 1993
Marble
18x79x30cm

Arc nº 56, 1987
Marble
38x47x19cm

False step nº185, 1993
Marble
42x24x12cm

Rain drops nº186, 1993
Marble
8.5x87x39cm

The book nº87, 1990
Marble
35x45x33cm

Butter cookie nº165, 1993
Marble
7x27x44cm

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