Carlos Vergara

‘Natureza como Matéria’ 2013, three sculptures in Corten steel. (2,50m, 1,50x1,50 each), are born from the interest that Vergara has in nature; in the sculptures in cut steel, the passage that this material undergoes over time conveys the idea of ​​a living and pulsating organism to the sculpture. All sculptures have a mutability character, as they share a continuous transformation. Like nature, steel is an index of time. They are like the organic and, symbolically, almost vegetal form of the sculptures. They are shadows or projections of a place that can be directly associated with the transitory instance of nature itself. Carlos Vergara, 1941, born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, lives, and works in Rio de Janeiro) engraver, photographer and painter, known as one of the main representatives of the New Figuration artistic movement in Brazil.