Ricardo Masi is an architect and visual artist. Graduated in the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC-GO) in Architecture and Urbanism in 2013 and with a master's degree in Art and Design for Public Space (Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto – Portugal) he has been developing his work and research on the relationship of materiality with the body, between built space and the human mind in its infinite utopian narratives. Since 2017, he has been developing work that combines the literature of Italo Calvino and cutting and folding techniques on white paper to materialize the author's invisible cities in an ethereal interpretation, with form and shadow as protagonists.
In his research for his master's degree, he sought to understand the individual's interaction with the built space and how this is often decisive in the way we act and perceive life around us. Based on this concern, he sought, through projects and artistic performances, to expose this perception, as in Clay Utopias (www.masiartes.com/utopiasdebarro), in which he shaped Calvino's fantastic cities on-site in the city of Porto, seeking a fusion of the real place with the imaginary. In Stones in the Way (www.masiartes.com/pedrasnocaminho), he created a metaphor about the relationship between body and matter through material collection and the short story Clarisse, from The Invisible Cities. The project is an attempt to build and recover the lost memory of this city that was and will no longer be, alluding to the walking of the body, which in its trajectory stumbles, falls and gets back up again.
Ricardo is currently dedicated to producing work that combines the knowledge accumulated in the research and artistic work he has developed so far. The idea of movement and transformation of the object and thought, of the inconstancy and imprecision of things and beings are the guide for the development of Impermanence. The work seeks to bridge the narratives of cities and buildings, inherent to his training in architecture, and the perception that, like bodies, they are alive.
Activities:
2016 _ Solo exhibition
Café Cariño, 2016, Collection;
2017 _Mostra Época
Época Móveis, Mostra Época, 2017, Linear screens and tiles;
2017 _Casa Cor Goiás
Casa Cor 2017, Venezia Installation, Toy Library by @rochalimaandreia, Copa tiles
by @giordanorogoski, Masi luminaires for@jmasidesign;
2018 _Casa Cor Goiás
Casa Cor 2018, Linear mix tile panel, for @jmasidesign;
2019 _Workshop
Three-dimensional composition class with children from the Piaget School, for the book fair, 2019;
2020 _Collective exhibition
Exhibition at Arte Plena Casa Galeria, works on invisible cities, chat about three-dimensional art, 2020;
2020 _Collective exhibition
Exhibition 2020 – 40 years of contemporary art Potrich & 30 years of painting Pitágoras, 2020;
2021 _Collective exhibition and workshop
Collective exhibition Tremma+ Opus + Potrich–Creation of collective work and origami workshop, 2021;
2021_Collective Exhibition -Emerge Fbaup+ AL859
Collective exhibition partnership between Aefbaup, Art2act and Espaço AL859 -Ars Longa Vita BrevisAssociação Cultura, 2021, Porto –Portugal;
2022 _Collective exhibition – Topographies of indeterminacy
Collective exhibition of work processes, Pedras no camino, 2022, Galeria a Cozinha, Porto-Portugal;
2022_Performance Crossing Spaces / Living Bodies
Collective performance in public space, collaboration between DDD (Festival Dias da Dança) and Fbaup, 2022, Porto –Portugal;
2022_Collective exhibition - Showcase in progress
Collective exhibition of work processes, Desmatéria, 2022, Galeria a Cozinha, Porto-Portugal;
2023_Solo exhibition – Clay utopias
Solo exhibition of works from the speculative series Utopias de Barro, 2023, Galeria Suuuper, Porto-Portugal;
2023_YES MasterClass
First workshop, artistic immersion for Young EuropeanSculpture(YES), partnership between the faculties École Supérieured'Art et de Design Tours Angers-Le Mans, LatvijasMakslasAkademija, AccademiaDi Belle ArtidiCarrara, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. 2023, Tours –France;
2023_Collective exhibition – Immaterial echoes
Collective exhibition of MADEP (Masters in Art and Design for the Public Space) finalists, exhibition of videos of the performances and works carried out for the thesis Material Memory – reflections on the materiality between the tangible and the invisible, 2023, Galeria a Cozinha, Porto -Portugal.