Pigs power
Pigs Power – 2012 / 14
Installation: 100 ink drawings on paper 15x21cm, 4 stencil on paper 100x100cm
«Now is time swollen to the limit»
Clarice Lispector
The words are on the streets, carried by non-conformist hands, looking for exits. The messages connected to gestures exhibit a collective voice, express the common malaise that transforms manifestations into a form of power. The word reveals the scream in a desire to reach. Aware of these voices that represent crowds, Fabrizio Contarino transforms posters into drawings, proposing a careful look at each phrase. The copy in this case allows an approximation and re-creation that links the word to the image, converts the text into drawing. The posters, excluded from their context, present what has passed. However, it is a past somehow present, because the artist seeks to be observing what is around him in order to produce a second voice.
Fabrizio Contarino opts not for photography but for drawing in black and white. Thus, he does not capture the images instantly, but slowly, resuming a manufacturing process. Reproduction is connected to the editing process that denotes a selective gaze of the artist. In his latest project, PIGS POWER, Contarino appropriates the pejorative acronym, used particularly by the British press to refer to European Union countries: Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. The demonstrations currently taking place in these countries are observed and empowered by the artist, creating an insistence of the hearing through the repetition of words.
Lucila Vilela, Interartive
