Rodrigo Cass
Contra-Composicao (existir) / Counter-Composition (exist), 2018
Concrete on inkjet print on cotton paper, unique in a series
24 x 25 1/4 inches
61 x 64 cm
Edition 1 of 3
Rodrigo Cass
Contra-Composicao (existir) / Counter-Composition (exist), 2018
Concrete on inkjet print on cotton paper, unique in a series
24 x 25 1/4 inches
61 x 64 cm
Edition 1 of 3
Rodrigo Cass
Estudo Para Uma Revolucao / Study of a Revolution, 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
10 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches
26 x 20 x 3 cm
Rodrigo Cass
On Handling, 2018
Video projection on linen canvas and bronze sculpture
26 x 35 inches
66 x 88.9 cm
Edition 1 of 5
Rodrigo Cass
Amarelo Liberto / Yellow Liberated, 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
36 1/4 x 30 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches
92 x 77 x 5.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (By These Loving Notes), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (Penetrate Out), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (The Drawing Exists), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passagens Amorosas / Loving Passages, 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
43 1/4 x 52 x 6 inches
110 x 132 x 15 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Outline of a Theory, 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
31 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches
80 x 80 x 7 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Infinite Contents, 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
22 3/4 x 20 x 1 1/4 inches
58 x 51 x 3 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Filosofia Sem uma Teoria / Philosophy Without a Theory, 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
15 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches
40 x 42 x 3 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Indent, 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
24 1/2 x 13 x 1 1/4 inches
62 x 33 x 3 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Exercício Spiritual (Estrutura) / Spiritual Exercise (Structure), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
12 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches
32 x 26 x 3 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Gestos Pensantes / Thinking Gestures, 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
19 x 11 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches
48 x 30 x 3 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Azul Manifesto / Blue Manifest, 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
19 3/4 x 15 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches
50 x 39 x 3 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (By Structural Excercises), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (In Physical Time), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (Through Friction Contents), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (Spiritual - Living - Breathes), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (Repeat and Exist), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (Three Grand Gestures), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (Made to Measure You), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (My Love), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Passages (At Infinity), 2018
Concrete, white concrete and tempera on linen
17 x 20 3/4 x 1 inches
43 x 53 x 2.5 cm
Rodrigo Cass
Mao Espacial / Spatial Hand, 2018
Concrete on photographic print, unique in a series
13 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches
35 x 45 cm
Edition 1 of 3
PRESS RELEASE
Rodrigo Cass: figures, gestures and passages
15 January – 19 February 2019
Anthony Meier Fine Arts is pleased to present figures, gestures and passages, the first solo exhibition of Rodrigo Cass in the United States.
The title, figures, gestures and passages, is a nod to Robin Evans’ essay Figures, Doors and Passages, which compares paintings and architectural plans in order to understand the relationship between spatial organization and social interactions. In this new body of work, Cass utilizes minimal concrete gestures drawn onto canvas, likened to text on the page or a complex system of corridors creating a metaphysical landscape to be explored.
Counter-Composition (exist) sets the stage for the exhibition – the hues from the photograph’s rainbow prism are cast onto the gallery walls creating passage from one work to another as if there was no beginning or end. The six monochromatic paintings installed in the gallery hallway appear as if they have been torn from the prism, rebounding unity and separation. The twelve paintings that comprise Passages in the main gallery form a calendar - the concrete gestures appear to be an emblem of a great theory left to be decoded by each visitor.
Near the fireplace rests a large green painting, Loving Passages, reminiscent of a school chalkboard. The lesson is a loving affective geometry akin to the relationship of the house with those who live in it. Whereas, The Outline of a Theory hangs from the ceiling at the gallery entrance painted with a fixed plan as if it is reflecting the traversed path below.
Cass’s video, On Handling, projects six colors superimposed in layers onto a linen and bronze sculpture placed inside the fireplace. The artist’s hand moves in gestures like a brush, revealing layer after layer. The primitive, repetitive gestures become the author of a new passage.
Rodrigo Cass (b. 1983) lives and works in São Paulo, Brasil. Cass received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Faculdade Santa Marcelina in São Paulo, Brasil. Cass has exhibited at Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo; Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Galpão, São Paulo; Galeria de Arte Copasa, Belo Horizonte; Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo; Galerie MDM, Paris, France; Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo; Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany; and MALG - Museu de Arte Leopoldo Gotuzzo, Pelotas.
Selected public collections include Casa do Olhar Luiz Sacilotto, Santo André, Brasil; Fundação Rômulo Maiorama, Belém, Pará; MAP - Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brasil; Pinacoteca de Piracicaba, Piracicaba, Brasil; andTBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria.
