The installation is a exploration of Gerdau’s history of steel making within the spatial context of Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s museum design. Starting with a line, simple and pure. The line flattens to a plane of long steel.
Machado then draws right angles with this steel line to delineate a flat rectangular space. From this flat plane the line continues to further express a three dimensional section of two perpendicular rectangular planes.
This is the primary motif, a spatialtheme from which the entire work becomes a suite of variations. Drawing Cartesian geometries with metal in space.
Machado Neto traverses new interdisciplinary territories, clearly walking a different path from artists who explored similar terrain before him.
Christian Larsen - Curator
01 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
From a frame
initially pre-set the
emptiness is captured and
contained in a ethereal tunnel
in light forms.
02 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
The idea is that the gaze crosses, in
ethereal form, the straight forms of the
steel.
03 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
The patterns of shadows and lines
resulting from different forms of
look, from each point of view, draw
a whole new perspective to
every step you take around and
through the installation.
04 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
In harmony with the terrace
created by Paulo Mendes da Rocha,
each piece is framed by just
a living photograph of the
moment, from the Liberty Square`s
landscape, in Belo Horizonte.
05 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
The interaction of shadows
with the scenery is fundamentals
part of the installation.
06 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
The pieces frame, in addition to the
landscape, also the sky. A change
of the image through the frames is what catches the viewer's eye.
07 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
08 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
The rhythm of the composition,
in a tunnel along the
terrace is what guides
the gaze.
09 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
10 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
12 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
From the gaze crossing the void,
we are guided to the details of
each piece. Rhythm, repetition
and evolution.
11 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
13 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
14 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
15 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
In the Soundscape Room, a
immersion experience, where the
protagonists are the sounds, the light
and the shadows, resulting from the
projection of the pieces in a room
completely white.
16 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
17 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
18 - Ethereal Metal (2022-07-07) by Olavo Machado NetoMM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
Metal Etéreo - Olavo Machado Neto
Curadoria - Christian Larsen
Direção Executiva - Marta Meireles
Produção - Sette Promoções, Josette Davis, Carolina Davis, Marta Meireles
Expografia - Alex Rousset
Identidade Visual - Olavo Machado, Alex Rousset
Coordenação de Comunicação - Renato Tomasi
Coordenação Pedagógica - Angélica Adverse
Gestão financeira - Através – Gestão cultural
Apoio - MM Gerdau - Museu das Minas e do Metal
Dados técnicos do projeto - Projeto: Metal Etéreo - N°: 2018.13604.0251
Patrocínio - GERDAU