21 Jan 2014

Miguel Vieira Baptista at EMPTY CUBE project

Miguel Vieira Baptista presents the first project of EMPTY CUBE for 2014, in Lisbon, at the Appleton Square gallery. 'Aula de Ginástica' [Gymnastics Class] is a project in which this designer examines the conceptual nature of EMPTY CUBE as both a space and an ephemeral moment.
The title 'Aula de Ginástica' [Gymnastics Class] evokes a notion of time, a unit, a moment, a class, an exercise or set of exercises and, in this particular case, a spatial construction based on mental exercises that correspond to a set of reflections on the possibility and fulfillment of a project. Its presence is absence circumscribed by a geography that radically affects the EMPTY CUBE project in terms of its display potential: in what it shows for a single, unrepeatable moment and in the rarefaction of its space as the symbolic place of the exhibitive project.
Alongside this, designer Vieira Baptista combines a number of models and prototypes to reveal methodologies and processes that present the ephemeral as a transitory moment in the creative process itself, without losing sight of the viewer's itinerary, which leads to a surprisingly deceptive plane. However, the geography and concomitant geometry imposed by his reflection on this project make it possible to visually construct the vectors of a now imaginary space that repeats itself in the memory of past EMPTY CUBE projects. EMPTY CUBE itself is suggested by the action of someone who intervenes in a space, be it the same space with which we are familiar or a different one, defined by Miguel Vieira Baptista's design pieces on the walls of the host space, the Appleton Square gallery.