Fernando Casás

Visual artist Fernando Casás is considered one of the pioneers of the Art & Nature movements. Of Galician origin, he spent much of his life in Brazil where, since the 1960s, he has developed a body of work often ephemeral and always tied to the passage of time through nature. With a conceptual profile, his work unfolds as a continuous dialogue with the natural world.
“Depois de Marte” (After Mars) reflects the more intimate and minimalist facet of his interventions in nature, emerging from the accumulation of materials that led the artist to seek a more refined and conceptual approach. In this body of work, both the materials and the language employed are not definitive, but rather expressive of the various concepts inherent to his practice.

Panels, tapestries, preparations for primitive rituals… In each possible grouping, the reading of these small works—entirely different from one another—leads us to imagine the shared destiny that brought them together.
The exhibition Depois de Marte (After Mars) confronts us with the question of what might happen when our planet is fully exhausted. Then, before us, a barren ground will open—what remains and what is yet to come, past and future.
It evokes a landscape born from the joint and diligent labor of the scientist—who separates and catalogues—and the artist, who imagines what may arise from life once transplanted to another planet. Life that, while momentarily adapting, will continue seeking new spaces, transforming itself until it returns to pure energy.

Opening: May 18, 2019 at 7:30 PM