Online project | #02 Lorenzo Bellini & Guilherme Figueiredo
Round #02
Lorenzo and Guilherme have never met before, but they know each other on the internet, they usually like to chat together on Instagram.
This time, at Fuzao's invitation, they chose some fragments of their chats during this period, selected and modified these memories and showed some of their art works.
Guilherme Figueiredo：GF
Lorenzo Bellini ：LB
GF 16:31
What about you, are you ok? It’s a really freaky climate covered with disaster
LB 16:32
I'm happy to know that you are good.. also for me the indoor situation is ok we are good here in Milan, we had 36 days of quarantine I can't imagine how the situation will be after everything is over
GF 16:36
Yeah every sector/infra-structure will be fragmented But I guess the instinct will always be to REbuild and REdo the same. Idk if it will work I’ve been doing a little paper tower I stack one paper each day
LB 16:40
send me a pic of the progress I wanna see how it’s grown
GF 16:42
(VIDEO - 3D paper tower)
LB 16:43
I started to write a diary of these day (it’s less original) but I felt like writing so everyone has their methods of counting the quarantine days
Citybash series, By Lorenzo Bellini
GF 16:47
I’ll start a poll on Instagram and ask about it! See what people say! what do you think?
LB 16:49
Interesting for sure because you can discover strange things about people
PDMC series by Guilherme Figueiredo
LB 16:44
I would like to see your spot like your desk or another place
GF 16:46
I didn’t have a desk in my room. I used to work on an atelier, so this is kind of the only way I have
(VIDEO - 3D Guilherme Desk)
LB 16:47
woww!! very cool my spot is pretty dark.
(VIDEO - 3D Lorenzo Desk)
GF 16:31
Fungal Fantasy, wow it’s actually a great name
LB 16:31
it’s a fantasy about fungus (mushroom)
Trashdraw series by Lorenzo Bellini
GF 16:32
Well yeah. Might as well be an rpg with a Covid like virus spreading through the world
Ooohhh yeah we can 3D render some of your sculptures. They would be such good apocalyptic type of characters
LB 16:35
it would be a pleasure!
Lorenzo's work table at his studio in Milan
and the hype for animal Crossing? what do you think? For many people that game is the real escape from quarantine. hahaha when you learn how to code let’s make it! Fungal Fantasy
Container drawing by Guilherme Figueiredo
GF 16:36
Animal crossing. My god yeah it makes total sense. I wish I had it. I think the hype makes sense. You can go outside in the game and it’s beautiful the outside inside of the game, have you seen it?
LB 16:38
Yes I saw some random images but I never tried it.. but I really liked your analysis “the outside inside of the game”. Many people that I know that play, have met each other or made a party inside the game.
GF 16:49
Yeah we are all in the same state obviously Ooh show me some figurines!
LB 16:50
my collection.. okay it’s a little one
(VIDEO - 3D Lorenzo Diorama)
I had a particular interest for modalism and small objects or scaling object
GF 16:54
Yeah I noticed on your work 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Burn by Lorenzo Bellini
LB 22:59
Also I'm really in love with this sculpture of yours.
Half-Life’s Gordon in the flesh by Guilherme Figueiredo
GF 23:00
Ah I felt the same about you and your work. There’s magnetism I agree Yeah ! It’s from an installation I did last year Thank you!! It was a lot of fun that piece. I love when my work makes me laugh in a way
LB 23:06 why is it funny?
The dolls made by Lorenzo
GF 23:07
It was mainly the movement of the roombas There was two characters and they would go against each other And its “unfinished” state makes me giggle I guess
by Guilherme Figueiredo
LB 22:43
so what you think about our discussion are you satisfied?
we had much more than 10 sentences
you prefer to make another session more specific for the project?
I like this one because it’s very natural.
Dollwood by Lorenzo Bellini
“Arqueologia Virtual” series by Guilherme Figueiredo
GF 22:48
[Shhh] well yeah I’m satisfied but how would we go about it? Yeah I liked it too But how can we curate this? Maybe we can edit and chop it up a bit? Hmm...Or select a fragment maybe..
But honestly I kind of forgot about the project midways haha..
LB 22:51
hahaha me too...but this was my expectation. Have a free conversation with someone that I didn't know. but I felt some common thing with you that inspired me confidence okay I wrote to the curator
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Guilherme Figueiredo
Lives and works in Lisbon
Finishing a masters in Visual Arts in Caldas da Rainha. Works on concepts of game and gaming and how the structures and layers of play in the world work in contrast with the seriousness of some scientific and pragmatic knowledge of the world’s history (speed on the archaeological process, evolution of the species, gambling and luck, computer programming, etc).
Lorenzo Bellini
Lives and works in Milan.
Sculpture and assembly are the practices he prefers, the method with which he works within these two practices is inspired by the stratification and concretion of the material. What feeds his work and his research is the exchange between producer and consumer.
Contact:
Instagram: bl.lorenzo & jelherme_magma