Gustavo Von Ha

Gustavo von Ha was born in 1977, he currently lives and works in Sao Paulo.



Double Crossing, or on the line through the mirror, or on how to unveil the crossing

By Marcos Moraes

In Double Crossing, Gustavo Von Ha displays two series of works whose common basis lie on looking into the crossing by means of crossfading, which is used to think over the relation with the image production process: the image/mirror that produces a kind of fusion between the "two sides". In this work proposal, upon removal of the tool used to start up the process, the fusion disappears, hence we may think about the meaning the strategy allows the artist to materialize on the surface of the paper, the image that emerges from that first picture offered for the production of this one, becomes an integral part of the world now. A birth, or rather a renaissance of the image that originally exists in time and space, but in this new proposed game is introduced to the eye with a new body, a subversion of its starting point.

The reference universes chosen by the artist according to the leitmotif he proposed for this exhibition, composed of Tarsila do Amaral and Leonilson, can be understood in different ways, be it those explained by Gustavo Von ...

1998-2001 -Communications, Advertising and Publicity at University of Oeste Paulista,Presidente Prudente,SP.2004-Production and Edition; Digital Video, Dv New York, New York/Reading Between the Lines, Artists Space, New York.2005-Image Researching with Leda Catunda at Santa Marcelina University, Sao Paulo. 2006-Holography, Holographic Studios, New York.,