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João Maria Gusmão
Portugal
Joao Maria Gusmao b. 1979, Pedro Paiva b. 1977. Live and work in Lisbon. The Portuguese artists Joao Maria Gusmao and Pedro Paiva have collaborated since 2001 on creating objects,…
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Joao Maria Gusmao b. 1979, Pedro Paiva b. 1977. Live and work in Lisbon. The Portuguese artists Joao Maria Gusmao and Pedro Paiva have collaborated since 2001 on creating objects, installations and 16mm and 35mm short films. The duo describe their overall project as a kind of “recreational metaphysics,” a genre that to a certain extent they themselves have re-invented following the Portuguese poet Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa) on his layered aesthetical modern experiment on materialism. The short films depict staged episodes and sequences of pseudo-scientific experiments with both poetical and comical consequences. In recent years Gusmao and Paiva’s production has centered on the idea of movement and duration, both within the cinematographic vocabulary, with references to early film pioneers as Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, and through the artists’ own practical experiments and conceptual invention.
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2018
Sleeping Flamingo
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2016
Chopping Fruits and Vegetables
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2015
Sleeping in a Bullet Train
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2014
Pipe
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2014
Motorcycle, Bike and Human Dots
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2014
Glossolalia
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2014
Papagaio (Djambi)
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2013
Onça Geométrica
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2013
Proboscis
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2013
Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace
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2013
Triangles and Squares
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2012
Water mill
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2012
Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies
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2012
Placing the Fisheye
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2011
Wheels
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2011
Turtle
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2011
Donkey
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2011
Under a car
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2011
Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera
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2011
Wave
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2011
Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya
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2011
Cowfish
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2011
Dream of a Ray Fish
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2011
Bread, Tea and Bao Game
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2011
The Horse of the Prophet
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2011
Getting into bed
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2010
Spaghetti Tornado
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2010
Cassowary
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2010
Heat Ray
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2010
Pot Smaller than Pot
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2009
3 Sóis
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2009
Fruit Polyhedron
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2009
The Soup
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2009
Hairy Stone
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2009
Ventriloquismo
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2009
A Coluna de Colombo
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2009
Tarciso’s Analogy
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2009
Hand Smaller than Hand
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2008
Meteoritica
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2008
The Initiate
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