“1/81” is made from the correlation of the existing mass between the Earth and the Moon. Being this last one the Earth’s only natural satellite and the fifth biggest of the Solar System, it’s also the biggest natural satellite of a planet in the solar system. Regarding its primary body size, it has a 27% diameter and 60% of Earth’s density, representing 1/81 of its mass.

We correlate ourselves in a so called contemporary society, controlled by artificial satellites, where the speed of a post digital and new media generation dictate time, speed and replace by an artificial way the natural/analogical world. The frequent reality scroll, by searching “new stories” where the contemplation reference gets lost, contributes each time more to human being distance from nature element. A reality where the landscape’s pictorial tradition seems no longer to realize the intricate meanings network emerging from big metropolis.

Seven artists, provoked by the disquietude of who lives in a place of which we can’t learn the whole, causing the condition that leads us to reinvent the way we read and interpret it, discuss new ways of dialogue, human relationships and contemplation processes. The act of look again to what was already there before the element “man”.

In the celebration of its 30th anniversary, CPS (Portuguese Printmaking Centre) invites these seven artists to multiply their work by 81 with an exhibition, where the screenprint and engraving are side by side with original works in Museu do Côa(Côa Museum)”. 

Paulo Arraiano

Exhibition Curator