"Clearly, baroque is fantastic,"Gregg Lambertsaid.He did not fully understand this expression before the project"Thinking Baroque"took place.We canunderstand and interpret the baroque in two general ways: rationally, as a historical period,and consider its formal aspects: the chronological marginsare defined and themasters are recognized, the principles of composition and characteristic elements aredescribed and preserved with poetized society and spirit of that time.Alternatively, we can feel the Baroque as atransitional phenomenon,which canoccur at any time,and which brings all matters to its maximum:the skill, the science, the emotion, the illusion,the violence. As one of the participating artists, Miguel Rodrigues, notably remarked, we are actually approaching a hyper baroque era; we can witness it, it is in the abundance of information,possibilities and technologies, in the fullblossom and fullacceptanceof any ugliness andof any beauty.Hisinstallation,specifically madefor "Thinking Baroque",is an assemblage of plumbing tubes and bent plastic:it shines with gold,it attractswith the softness ofrich red velvet. Isn’t this a sublime ofmodernity?
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Madina Zingashina, curator of the project ART-MAP Braga 2017