Chairs: drawing, gesture and experience

Abstract

The following work deals with poetic research in which observation drawing is the focus of attention, approached from the perspective of experience. To think of drawing is to think of the line; it captures, outlines, traces, drags and projects our thoughts into space; it gives shape to the images we construct on paper and also to those we see on a daily basis. Based on a look at everyday life, the chair was chosen as the object of observation for the investigation of observational drawing connected to gesture, its materiality and spatiality. Dialogue was sought with authors/artists such as Danillo Villa, Marcia Tiburi and Roland Barthes to deepen the investigation. The research is based on the Visual Poetics Research methodology proposed by Sandra Rey (2002). The series of drawings entitled "Cadeiras" (Chairs) (2021), with around fifty works, was born out of this process, enabling experimentation and the expansion of perception about observation drawing.