Marcelo Silveira

Marcelo Silveira’s practice seems to question pre-established categories, by challenging and tensioning apparently consolidated definitions of sculpture, installation, popular art, crafts and collecting. His production moves from an interest in materiality. Everything can be an object of work: wood, leather, paper, metal, plastic, and glass are just some of the elements explored. However, the configuration assumed by them is also fundamental, which can be created from the formal repertoire common to those objects or by recreating familiar and common forms in unexpected materials. “Atrio”, 2016 reproduces the atrium of the Casa Grande at Usina de Arte. The project was born from the reality of a house, the ’Casa Grande’, which is the main house on the site. So, attracting a lot of curiosity on the part of people working for the property who wanted to know. Marcelo’s initial project was to really and conceptually open the house to allow visits where he thought of organizing some exhibitions. As the atrium has several entrances and independent access, he thought it possible to imagine such a visitation space. As the logistics seemed complicated, the artist then imagined faithfully redoing the atrium space in another space in the Usina park. As everything is in this atrium of the main house, this ’reproduction’ gives a greater amplification and conversation. For example, the openings function as frames for the landscape, like a collection of landscapes, a new space for contemplation. The atrium is a meeting point, with the good acoustics, today it also allows events. Marcelo Silveira (1962) born in Gravatá, Pernambuco, lives and works in Recife