2013
Edition Size: 50
Image Size: 49,8 x 49,8 cm
Sheet Size: 55 x 55 cm
Signed
Condition: Pristine
Digital pigment print, 55 x 55 cm, 2013, 13/50, unframed
The work “Vertigo” was inspired by the movie “Vertigo” by Hitchcock.
For the production of “Vertigo”, Patrício produced a labyrinth upside down, as imagined by the Vertigo´s director.
José Patrício’s (b. 1960, Recife, Brazil) work blurs the boundaries between installation and painting. His practice stems from the arrangement of everyday-use objects, such as dominoes, dice, buttons, and nails, to create patterns and images, either in a geometrical or organic manner, but always enigmatically familiar. Starting out his career in 1999 when he created an installation at the São Francisco Convent in João Pessoa, Patrício uses dominoes as a key element to several of his works. When viewed from afar, the patterns we see in his artworks assume an almost painterly tonality with an overall appearance that contrasts with the graphical nature of each individual domino
