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biombo II is a reconfiguration for CIAJG (Guimarães) of the installation biombo, originally produced with Tomás Cuhna Ferreira for Arquipélago CAC (Açores). For the original exhibition text see the page for biombo (this website). With the transfer, a number of the installation elements changed: the scaffolding structure, the museum loans, and the works directly applied to the institution walls.
Objects from the Collection José de Guimarães and Museu Regional de Arqueologia D. Diogo de Sousa (Braga) joined travelling loans from the collection of the Museu Carlos Machado (Açores), private collections, refabricated furniture designed by Lina Bo Bardi for the auditorium of MAMB, Teatro Castro Alves (Salvador, Brazil, 1959), architectural elements designed by Sigurd Lewerentz (see Guidance), archive materials (including Michel Giacometti’s Canto de Trabalho na Pedreira / Song of the Stone Worker, 1973) from the Portuguese broadcaster RTP and numerous works by the two artists.
Details of the exhibited elements are listed in the credits below the images. biombo (I and II) was produced for Geometria Sónica curated by Nuno Faria and configured with the assistance of the technical teams of Aquipélago CAC (Açores) and CIAJG (Guimarães).
Individual Images
biombo II, Mike Cooter & Tomás Cuhna Ferreira, Geometria Sónica CIAJG (Guimarães). Display structure: scaffolding, scaffold wrap material, cable ties, wood, glass vitrines, projector, monitors and electrical elements. Photography: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II detail: (l-r) 'The Last Page (1858, 1838)', Mike Cooter, 2008/9; 'Untitled', sewn fabric, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, 2018; bi, jade, Liangzhu culture (Neolithic period, 3200-2200 BCE), Collection José de Guimarães - CIAJG; terracotta vase (date uncertain), Columbia, Collection José de Guimarães - CIAJG. Photograph: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II detail: Michel Giacometti, ‘Canto de Trabalho na Pedreira / ‘Song of the Stone Worker’ (director: Alfredo Tropa, series: ‘Povo que Canta / People who Sing’), video, 22'47", 1973, RTP Archive; terracotta figure, Chancay (Peru), 1000-1450 CE, Collection José de Guimarães – CIAJG. Photograph: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II detail: terracotta figure, Chancay (Peru), 1000-1450 CE, Collection José de Guimarães - CIAJG
biombo II detail: wooden fish trap, Tchokwé (Angola), Collection José de Guimarães - CIAJG and 'The Last Page (1848a)', Mike Cooter, 2008/9. Not shown: 'Information report on the production and export of São Miguel pineapples', video, RTP/Açores, Dec 1984, journalist: João Soares Ferreira. Photograph: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II overview, including seating designed by Lina Bo Bardi for the auditorium of MAMB, Teatro Casto Alves (Salvador, Brazil, 1959), originally fabricated in Brazilian ype and leather, refabricated in locally-sourced Azorean cryptomeria and scaffold wrap material. Projector shows Michel Giacometti, ‘Canto de Trabalho na Pedreira / ‘Song of the Stone Worker’ (director: Alfredo Tropa, series: ‘Povo que Canta / People who Sing’), 1973, RTP Archive. Top right of image: 'Untitled', sewn cotton and linen, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, 2018. Photograph: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II detail: Michel Giacometti, ‘Canto de Trabalho na Pedreira / ‘Song of the Stone Worker’ (director: Alfredo Tropa, series: ‘Povo que Canta / People who Sing’), video, 22'47", 1973, RTP Archive
biombo II detail: Michel Giacometti, ‘Canto de Trabalho na Pedreira / ‘Song of the Stone Worker’ (director: Alfredo Tropa, series: ‘Povo que Canta / People who Sing’), video, 22'47", 1973, RTP Archive
biombo II detail: Megalithic arrow replica, courtesy Museu Regional de Arqueolgia D. Diogo de Sousa (Braga); 'A', digital animation, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, 2018; 'Kite ascension on board the Discovery, 1904, Ponta Delgada - São Miguel', stereoscopic photographs, Archive Afonso Chaves / Museu Carlos Machado; 'Untitled', silkscreen, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, 2018. Photograph: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II detail: ceramic loom weights, Roman period / Bracara Augusta, and lithic net and/or loom weights, Iron Age / settlement of S. Julião, both courtesy Museu Regional de Arqueologia D. Diogo de Sousa (Braga); Cover design for VIEW (Fall 1946), Isamu Noguchi, 1946, courtesy private collection; ‘Untitled’ sewn fabric, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, 2018. Photograph: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II detail: including ‘Untitled’ sewn fabric, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, 2018. Photograph: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II detail: ‘Untitled string figure (after Aleksandr Rodchenko, c.1920)’, cotton and polyester coloured string, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, 2018; ‘Cycas pectinate: circumnutation of young leaf whilst emerging from the ground, feebly illuminated from above, traced on vertical glass, from 5pm May 28th to 11am 31st. Movement magnified 7 times, here reduced to two thirds original scale’, fig.45 in Charles R. Darwin, ‘The Power of Movement in Plants’, 1880, graphite on wall, dimensions variable, Mike Cooter, 2019. Photograph: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II detail: ‘Untitled string figure (after Aleksandr Rodchenko, c.1920)’, cotton and polyester coloured string, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, 2018. Photograph: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II detail: ‘Cycas pectinate: circumnutation of young leaf whilst emerging from the ground, feebly illuminated from above, traced on vertical glass, from 5pm May 28th to 11am 31st. Movement magnified 7 times, here reduced to two thirds original scale’, fig.45 in Charles R. Darwin, ‘The Power of Movement in Plants’, 1880, graphite on wall, dimensions variable (detail), Mike Cooter, 2019. Photograph: Vasco Celio / Stills
biombo II, Mike Cooter & Tomás Cuhna Ferreira, Geometria Sónica CIAJG (Guimarães). Display structure: scaffolding, scaffold wrap material, cable ties, wood, glass vitrines, projector, monitors and electrical elements. Photography: Vasco Celio / Stills