Concrete reality | 2023
Text by Luísa Santos
Concrete reality, by Mónica Capucho (1971, Lisbon)places concretism alongside reality, an impossible relationship in the definition of concrete art. In the history of art, concrete art is abstract art, free from any interpretation or representation of reality and without any symbolic meaning. And it is precisely from the questioning of relationships and assumptions in the history of art that the story of this exhibition is drawn.This text takes the route of Concrete reality, at Casa d'Avenida, to tell its parts.
Regenerating | 2022
Text by Raquel Gaspar Silva
To say that Mónica Capucho’s work is composed of fragments would be to say that the work was whole and is no more. We must not confuse dimension with integrity. In fact, the artist unglues concepts from reality and glues them onto something new, creating meanings and proportion. The artist is the agent that confers regenerative skills upon the fragments, qualifying them for the creation of a body.
Uneven Order | 2020
Text by Patrícia Barreira
During the summer of 1947 Yves Klein looked at the skyand gazing at the infinitude used it as an example of thinking about thelimitless creative possibilities of the colour blue, declaring: “the blue ofthe sky is my first work of art “[1].Later he would explain “Blue has no dimensions; it goes beyond them, while thesame doesn’t happen with the other colours. All colours stir up specificassociative ideas, whereas blue suggests mostly the sea and the sky and theseare, after all, in nature that is real and visible, completely abstract”[2].
Solid Matter | 2018
Text by Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues
Solid Matter is an exhibition staged by Mónica Capucho in the MultipurposeRoom [Sala Multiusos] and at the Vieira da Silva Municipal Gallery, in ParqueAdão Barata, Loures. Mónica Capucho intervenes in two adjoining spaces,opposite but complementary in nature. Two sites separated by the presenceof an outside courtyard albeit connected by the character of the work onshow.
Under Pressure | 2017
Text by Martim Dias
Every word has the power of building mental pictures, in the same way as images show theneed for finding verbal justifications, integrating them at determined moments, defining themor simply offering them an approach to the temporality belonging to the scope of the word.We live sunk in a world of images and words, elements that often cross each other.
Units of Order | 2016
Text by Mónica Capucho
WORDS HAVE FORMS
FORMS HAVE MEANINGS
MEANINGS HAVE FEELINGS
FEELINGS HAVE SENSES
SENSES HAVE COLORS
Looking for Something | 2015
Text by Luísa Santos
Looking for something (2015) by Monica capucho (1971) is a series in which the word comes forward both as subject and as object. This series consists of a set of almost one hundred works using different materials – canvases, concrete blocks, plaster blocks, wood sections, see through acrylic or paper. Looking for something seems, on a first reading, to set the word in the field of the image.
Sense & Sensibility | 2000
Text by Margarida P. Prieto
Abstract. This paper is about the relation visible/legible implied in the painting/in-scripture gesture, characteristic of paintings by Mónica Capucho. It also indicates the creativity games underlying all possibilities of pictorial accumulation by layers, and the mise-en-abyme made visible throughout site-specific installations.
