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After showing a massive retrospective of his 20-year career at the Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba,
Brazil) in 2018 - one of the museum's most visited exhibitions in recent years - Tony Camargo
presents his latest production of paintings, sculptures, objects and videos.
Tony Camargo's production reflects how painting can be traversed by new technologies. By
combining seemingly opposing poetic systems, exploring the limits of space and transcending
language and materiality, Tony's works reveal discoveries between the relation of lines and planes,
colors and shapes, through unfolding the interior of things, transforming the real into pure visuality.
In his videos, the artist makes use of irony, in which he induces the human capacity to laugh at the
unexpected and to question the conceptual and visual precepts that guide contemporaneity. In
performing actions that take place in everyday settings, such as storages and garages, Tony
recreates these environments with objects that has a pictorial vocation, through his own image, form
and color.
Using technology, Tony seeks to create its own colors, some of them acids and uncontrollable, which
are not printed in catalogs. Through computerized colors and the formal rigor of geometry, his
paintings transcend material reality.
For the artist, his paintings and videos belong to a poetic atmosphere that arises from the clash
between the plastic rigor of his geometric paintings of constructive origin and the creative chaos of
his personalistic performances, directly connected to the unpredictability of life. The result is an indepth
investigation into real-world spatiality.