May 19 / May 22, 2022

NVS presents for Arco Lisboa a solo booth with works designed especially for the occasion by the Argentine artist Matías Ercole (1987). It is an installation of drawings in ink and wax, with a large central piece that stresses, through its assembly, the architecture of the stand. The project is part of his current line of work and research around light as a physical phenomenon but also as a character and symbol, in relation to history and different geographies.
Matías Ercole's works are built upon the certainty that drawing is capable of making visible that which is not. In his latest works he focuses on light as the origin of his system, tackling it simultaneously from different approaches, technic, physic, poetic. Ercole isolates the coporeity of light, the immaterial. Through it he structures and confronts different world visions. Landscape is the central iconography where his investigations take place. In this series, named "Monumento", light becomes "weird". It's the kind of light that the artist thinks of as from his own geography: a hallucinated light, emphasizing "being out of it", all the while opposing colliding logics. Between extasis, madness and exotism. These images present themselves as if architecture were a literal development of the painting, so that the observer doesn't look at the image from the outside, but being totally submerged in it.