Nazareth Pacheco: Gota a Gota

The intervention “Gota a Gota” is the result of a project created four years ago for Pinacoteca. It consists in presenting in the building’s main elevator more than two thousand drops in bronze, in thirty different sizes and shapes.

According to curator Giancarlo Hannud, for the making of these drops the artist lets go, up to certain point, of the control over the material, one of the traditional pre-requisites for artistic production; after all, she can’t know before hand how the bronze will behave in the brief moments before shifting from liquid to solid.

Pacheco (b. 1961, São Paulo) holds an MA in Fine Arts from the University of São Paulo. Since her early works, when rubber was her main material, she deals with the three-dimensional field. In the late 1990s, the artist starts to add metal as steel fillets, copper and brass, to the pieces in rubber. She starts to elaborate pieces with objects that can’t be touched, creating adornments and clothes by uniting beads or crystals to needles, scalpel or razor blades and hooks. At the same time, she also begins to work with a new material, acrylic crystal.