"Lucas' work talks about diverse textures, noises, composition, tensions, mystery and altered states of consciousness. Different means and ways are used to explore these aspects. In a brutal and chaotic way, it seeks to find an order in chance, a meaning for all the complexity of life. Hidden messages, hidden frequency of things."
"Lucas' work talks about diverse textures, noises, composition, tensions, mystery and altered states of consciousness. Different means and ways are used to explore these aspects. In a brutal and chaotic way, it seeks to find an order in chance, a meaning for all the complexity of life. Hidden messages, hidden frequency of things."Lucas' work shows the power of symbols in the world and their connections, both psychological and cultural. The messages are often very hard to discern, but they are often very complex and opaque. In one piece, for example, a line of holes is inserted into a piece of paper, as if to invite the viewer to fill in the missing part. Here, there is something very familiar in the hole; it is the hollow, the hole that makes us stop thinking and start thinking about the things we see. In another work, the letter P, painted in gold leaf, is covered with a piece of paper; here, the letter P is covered by a rubber-band and a mask. The rubber-band is a mask, but it hides something, and the mask hides something, and we can only look at it. In another piece, a piano with a big, round face is covered with a rubber-band and a knife blade. The sound of the blade, of the blade cutting the rubber bands, of the knife blade cutting the rubber bands, of the rubber-band-knife cutting the rubber-band-board surface, and the mask of the mask are all very much together in this piece. This is a painting that invites the viewer to play with the words, to make connections between different meanings, some of which are already made by the viewer, some of which are not. The painting is a clue that can help us in finding a key that opens up the mystery of life. This is not a painting of words or of things. It is a painting that opens up the mystery of experience.Lucas uses language as a means to explore the mystery of communication.
—David Batchelor
–Eija-Liisa AhtilaTranslated from Portuguese by Marguerite Shore.
—Loren Kossin
—Peter Plagens
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