Studies for the tropical botanical garden of Lisbon.

Models made of brass, lead, wood, glass and pigments (Lapislazuli, charcoal and chlorophyll).Variable dimensions. 2018.

01 Monument to the dew (I) (stone wear by water dew)
02 Vertical sculpture for morning light redirection
03 Vertical sculptures for convergence of two light beams on a tree: creation of two shadows
04 Sculpture for spring (II) (rainwater collector, for creation of an ephemeral lake)
05 Stations marker (bi-chromatic) (color system representing life and death periods of a park)
06 Fountain study (Tribute to plant and animal life, death, the beginning of things and the emergence of inorganic life)
07 Adornment object (rainwater collector, with hole for placement of written notes)
08 Object for relation between materials
09 Four black suns (obelisk with lines study: vertical, horizontal and the approach of both in a motive representing life and death)
10 For sun redirection on a tree bark (I)
11 For sun redirection on a tree bark (II)
12 Plant for a lake parallel to the river (For water motion in function of tides)
13 Funeral monument (I)
14 Funeral monument (II)
15 Funeral monument (III)
17 Floodgate study
18 Plumbing into a damaged fountain (for filtering the pond water in front of the cafeteria)
19 Monument to the dew (II)
20 Symbolic study for earth fertility
21 Water mirror
22 For concealment in canebrake (sound sculpture, kinetic, for bamboos and reeds in the wind percussion)
23 Precipitator (visual study of object which anticipates sea ashore precipitation / creation of a water cloud)
25 Stone block with internal cavity
27 Solar disk, for incidence of summer solstice on dry tree (I)
29 Solar disk, for incidence of summer solstice on dry tree (II)
31 Solar disk, for incidence of summer solstice on dry tree (III)
32 Dry tree embedded in a triangle
34 Study for supporting trees structure in tumble (I) (mirror facing the ground, in slow approach)
37 Study for supporting trees structure in tumble (II) (mirror with sustention structure, for heavy body projection on the ground / the illusion of a new branch)
38 For rainwater harvesting (II)
39 For rainwater harvesting (III)
40 Spring sculpture (I) (rainwater twin collector, for creation of two ephemeral lakes that disappear together)
41 Glass dome study, with scraps of an old cold greenhouse (Non homage to Portuguese navigators)
43 Dice with Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13) (for random structure construction)
42 Spring sculpture (III) (rainwater collector endorsed to a dead tree, for creation of an ephemeral lake).
44 Sculpture for the end of summer (Celebration of dry period ending and ground humid smell / for formulation of a natural charcoal ephemeral drawing and summer's thunderstorms rainwater)
45 Luís Luciano Ferreira tribute, anticipation of induced universes
46 Spring sculpture (IV) (mobile rainwater collector, for creation of an ephemeral lake)
46.b Symbolic study, for three forms balance
47 Shelter structure in duck's canebrake study
48 Spring sculpture (VI) (rainwater collector composed by modules for creation of an ephemeral lake)
49 Par For a light beam transformation (object to circumvent a dead tree trunk / light symbolic action -transformation of a horizontal line into a vertical one)
50 Natural ink filter for dead tree trunk (object to hang out on a dead tree trunk / rainwater filter collector, with chlorophyll pigment inside)
51 Expositors study
53 For contained drift, floating object for artificial lake
54 Natural pigment mixer (Sculpture for end of summer)
55 Model for a submersible sculpture (I)
57 Dome study (I)
59 Model for a submersible sculpture (II) (for immersion and submersion of a garden wreck painted with lapis lazuli pigment)
60 Submersible floating object (visual essay for construction of a work in tribute to park animals)
61 Dome study (II) (for projection of an abstract painting shadows elaborated with natural charcoal pigment, of remains found in the park)
64 Modular exhibitors study

Sculpture for the end of summer.

(Celebration of dry period ending and ground humid smell / for formulation of a natural charcoal ephemeral drawing and summer's thunderstorms rainwater). Brass, natural charcoal, rainwater. Lisboa,
2018

Nuno Vicente
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