Pinturas: memórias sobre lona

Abstract

The objective of this work was to explore the materiality of worn tarpaulins of trucks, giving them a new function within the artistic making: the support for pictorial productions. The elements that make up the production are presented: tarpaulin; photography, with the function of materialization of childhood memories; and the transfer process, used in the fusion of the images to the support. Afterwards, the artists who were the reference for the construction of the project: Carlos Vergara, Paulo Miranda and Aecio Sarti - contemporaries who use tarpaulin as support in their productions, each in its own specificity - and how they influenced my work. Subsequently, the work is presented step by step: discovery of the tarpaulin as a support; memoirs; experiments, passing through the painting and going to the stamping; and the fusion of image and support to achieve the goal of uniting my memories and the records of the tarpaulin to the tarpaulin itself. It was possible to investigate, in an extended way, alternative supports, experiments of materials, contemporary artists, personal collections (my photographs), construction of academic knowledge, reflections on memories, to get to this result that concretizes a process in which memories merged support and became, with the tarpaulin, a single work. Keywords: Tarpaulin. Support. Memories. Photography. Transfer.