Camilo Rebelo

promise

Rebelo, Camilo
Mateus, Manuel Aires

LB 36 CAMILO REBELO promise, is the thirty-six title from the LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.
It merges with the landscape, not in a mimetic order, but like fortresses, aqueducts, or bastions have done throughout history. Materials that lose their detail, becoming abstract, enhance each landscape. Atemporal also in its construction, a heavy structure compressing matter, layering material upon material in horizontal layers, breathing weight and reality. Matter and constructive technique, beautiful in their ancestral, archaic, manual sense, contrasting with delicate details that, in their contrast, gain value, accentuating the large mass that frames them