Vol. 12 No. 23 (2016): World Tensions

Amongst photographic images collected from the internet or "frozen" scenes from movies, Cláudio Tobinaga finds possibilities of narratives approaching the cinematographic process. It makes you feel, on the other hand, the apparent absence of his compositions, waving to the limits of fiction.

For Tobinaga, "the atmosphere of the ordinary takes contours of a cheap Existentialism, the surface that lures is the same that cheats. This ghostly condition is a symptom in a world filled with images ". In the series World Tensions 23, between the opacity of the painting and the photographic transparency, there emerges the dystopian universe that illustrates this journal. A visual artist working in Rio de Janeiro, Claudius Tobinaga develops projects in multiple media such as painting, sculpture, photography, video and actions.