Untitled - cut

Inés Lombardi’s artistic investigations have long been focused on Brazilian Modernismo. The work “Untitled—cut” turns the spotlight on the architect Rino Levi’s Residência Olivo Gomes (1951). The color scheme for the exterior façade was designed by the painter Francisco Rebolo. In an effort to document the changes in the colors over time, the layers were stripped off in a kind of archaeological excavation and matched to a Pantone color system. Lombardi then selected fifty-four from these hues and laminated thirty-nine squares onto a historic photograph of the villa. Partly obscuring the view of the building, the squares also frame a distinctive and specific perspective on its history.

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