Geometria Sensível · Rodrigo Cass
Curadoria: João Sarmento SJ & Nuno Crespo

Opening: 
May 20 · 6:30 p.m. · EA Exhibition Hall (Porto)
May 26 · 6:00 p.m. · Brotéria (Lisbon)

Sensitive Geometry, the first solo exhibition by artist Rodrigo Cass in Portugal, organized by the School of Artsin collaboration with Brotéria, will open in two stages: at the School of Arts in Porto on May 20, and at Brotéria in Lisbon on May 26. 

At the heart of the exhibition lies the notion of “sensitive geometry,” which manifests itself in the forms, colors, and gestures that run through the works. More than a strictly formal approach, this geometry reveals itself as a field of tension between rationality and intuition, where geometric structures interplay with sensory and affective experiences. Thus, Rodrigo Cass’s work expands into a dimension where gestures activate planes and objects, establishing dynamic relationships between matter and perception, while evoking a mystical dimension traversed by the four elements—earth, water, air, and fire—as primordial forces that inform, transform, and vitalize.

About the artist
 
Rodrigo Cass (São Paulo, 1983) engages with the constructive tradition of Brazilian art through a formal vocabulary that alludes to the concrete and neo-concrete experiments of the 1960s and 1970s. The artist’s interest in intersections and fractures of the pictorial plane is notable, causing his surfaces to acquire volumetric dimensions in space across canvases, reliefs, and videos. Concrete, fiberglass, and linen, colored with tempera, are some of his most frequently used materials. Projected onto sculptural objects, Cass’s video works fuse the physicality of performance with pictorial logic, in which color and texture appear as elements that construct space. In harmony with the technically hybrid and conceptually multifaceted nature of Rodrigo Cass’s practice, the gesture of the body communicates with the brushstroke on the surface of the painting, creating a field of resonances between formal possibilities and a virtual spatiality.