
Eduardo Basualdo
Split Knife/ Infinito, 2012
Plinth, metal, wood
27 cm
'Split Knife/ Infinito works on the performative power of the word, its capacity for modifying the enviroment from immateriality. How can a cutting edge of language be represented in order...
'Split Knife/ Infinito works on the performative power of the word, its capacity for modifying the enviroment from immateriality. How can a cutting edge of language be represented in order to modify something? The invisible cutting edge of language is not material, but it has an incidence on matter. You can modify behavior through words. Here I intended to lead the viewer towards looking at the knife to see if it was actually there: to look at the invisible, to look where there is nothing to see, to concentrate on that nothing...Violence is a component part of our creative engine. The work is finding out how to channel violence so that it does not destroy everything.'
(Text by Eduardo Basualdo)
(Text by Eduardo Basualdo)
Provenance
Tiroche DeLeon CollectionPSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Exhibitions
Le Musée départemental d’art contemporain, Rochechouart, France | Eduardo T. Basualdo: Nervio | March 2013 - June 2013.Mana Wynwood, Miami, US | "Everything You Are I Am Not": Highlights of the Tiroche DeLeon LATAM Collection, curated by Catherine Petitgas | December 2015.
MANA Glass Gallery, New Jersy, USA | "Everything You Are I Am Not": Highlights of the Tiroche DeLeon LATAM Collection, curated by Catherine Petitgas | May 2016 - August 2016.
Publications
Maria Santos | "ABC Final Report" | Bigs - Berlin Independents Guide | September 2012.Scout MacEachron | "Spilled Bananas, Split Blades, and Books with Bullets: Eclectic Offerings at Mana Miami" | Hyperallergic | December 2015.