“Lighting”

Eduardo Coimbra's interest in the issues that permeate the study of landscape and space unfolds in installations, models, objects, photographs and drawings. His work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, MAM-RJ, in 2018, at CAIXA cultural in São Paulo, in 2017, at FUNARTE and CCBB, São Paulo, in 2014, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute in 2013, at the 29th International Biennial of São Paulo in 2010, at the Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci and at the Mercosil Biennial in 2001. Coimbra's work is part of the Itaú Photography Collection, the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and the MAM-RJ, among others.

From football stadiums to clouds, the artist uses themes that allow us to reconfigure the common notion of space. In Stadiums, impossible schemes are triggered by models for a football field-metaphor. In Natural Light, a work presented at the São Paulo Biennial, the immateriality of light is reinforced by the representation of the cloud in a double-meaning game. Recently, the artist's research on light and landscape led him to develop a temporary installation for urban public spaces entitled Nuvem, which was presented in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Moscow.

According to curator Agnaldo Farias, “the artist seems to defend the idea that the external landscape, the one we walk through while taking in with our eyes, is as tangible as the representations of the landscape. More than that, these are two inseparable terms. This is because the skin of the world is also made up of the ideas and images that are extracted from it. Those who walk through the world are simultaneously and inevitably the center of that world; they are the ones who found it.”