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Matheus Rocha Pitta

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Matheus Rocha Pitta, Primo accordo (diptych), 2013
Matheus Rocha Pitta, Primo accordo (diptych), 2013

Matheus Rocha Pitta

Primo accordo (diptych), 2013
concrete and newspaper clips
84 x 122 cm each
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Matheus Rocha Pitta, Untitled, still of Drive Thru #1, 2007
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Matheus Rocha Pitta, Untitled, still of Drive Thru #1, 2007
As for this series, Matheus Rocha Pitta was inspired by Thomas Hirschhorn ethical reading of Andy Warhol realising different concrete slabs with contemporary clips from international newspapers featuring – often...
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As for this series, Matheus Rocha Pitta was inspired by Thomas Hirschhorn ethical reading of Andy Warhol realising different concrete slabs with contemporary clips from international newspapers featuring – often powerful – people in gestures of agreement. The artist worked with the curious technique of pouring concrete onto findings, a hybrid of cast and collage. It was based on a common, cheap way to cover graves. In order to prevent the poured concrete from sticking to the wooden casting mold, the latter was laid out with newspaper, which thus inevitably became part of the underside of the slab as the paper was fixed in place by the hardening concrete.
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Exhibitions

Paris, Palais de Tokyo, 2013

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