Caio Reisewitz: mundo do meio EN

The great French mathematician René Thom once observed that “the part of reality that can be rationally understood is very limited; the rest of reality, we can only know through empathic resonance with it. “

 

This comment is worth noting because this exhibition is part of that “rest of reality.” Here, Caio Reisewitz’s art consists precisely in bringing into the visual field a world which is normally wrapped in mystery: the World in Between, where everything happens in the gaps, in the intervals, in the places between, amidst the layers of his collages. Neither here nor there, but rather on this side or that of an elsewhere manifested in the here and now, the World in Between is revealed as a zone of encounter, of the dissolving of opposites, of release and resonance. It is a case of “and… and…,” rather than “or… or…”

 

Reisewitz’s work is characterized, above all, by the utmost experience of high definition in the photography of landscapes and architectures. In recent years his images have been interspersing natural spaces amidst man-made constructed environments – inside and outside are inextricably blended, giving rise to the “language of the architectural landscape,” to use an expression coined by Francis Alÿs. Now, the artist is taking a leap, bringing the viewer to experience the World in Between, where the surface opens up to the unfathomable, where the recognized form gives way to the nearly abstract figuration of another scene.

 

The World in Between is the reality of spectral images. We know that a spectrum is a vision; but it is also the expression of the amplitudes or intensities – which generally involve energy – of the reverberations of a system, when they are made to stand out from one another in function of their respective frequencies.

 

Neither ordinary nor supernatural, the World in Between belongs to the world of enlarged reality.

Caio Reisewitz’s research takes photography as its main medium. Through technical and thematic refinement, his work evinces an interest in human action and its social and political effects, whether in the natural space or the architectural space. While his photographic technique highlights the dramaticity among shapes, colors and textures, his artistic poetics constructs a nearly dreamlike aesthetic repertoire. These aspects establish a dichotomous dialogue between the real (that which is characteristic of the photographic record) and the chimerical (our own repertoires).

 

With a degree in visual arts from Mainz University (Germany), Caio Reisewitz has an advanced degree in visual poetics and an MA from the University of São Paulo. The biennials he has participated in include: 23^rdSydney Biennale (2022), Biennale des Arts 2022 de Nice, France,  the 26th Bienal de São Paulo (2004), the 51st Biennale di Venezia (2005), in Italy, and the Nanjing Biennale (2010), in China. His work has also been shown at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) (2010, Spain); Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (2010); the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection Miami (2005, 2010, USA); the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York (2014, USA); the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2015, France); the Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2017), as well as at Photo Shanghai (2019, China). In 2020, he released the book Altamira, based on a collection of the same name acquired by the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. His work figures in important collections such as those of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (USA); the Fundación ARCO Madrid (Spain); the Collezione Fondazione Giovanni Guastalla (Italy); the Fond National d’Art Contemporain (France); MUSAC (Spain); the Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) of São Paulo, of Rio de Janeiro and of Salvador (Brazil); the Musée Malraux (France); and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo.