HYLAND
The ever-versatile and self-transforming Campana Brothers,
who hail from the still-emerging
country of Brazil, are mindful of
such global issues as sustainability
and the use of recycled materials,
concerns which might seem far
removed from the extravagant
worlds of the baroque invoked
by Calloway. But they deserve his
words as a glittering introduction,
for whether they work in cardboard
and nylon or precious gilding and
fur, the pair, Fernando (born 1961)
and Humberto (born 1953) are
exuberant exponents of all that
affirms, makers who truly "delight
in the richness and grandeur of
things."
Another heavily freighted
reference comes to mind when
contemplating the Campanas:
the French word, bricolage,
much loved by French esoteric
critics such as Jacques Derrida,
but which means simply the
construction or creation of a work
from a diverse range of things
that happen to be available. In
Concepts, a seminal exhibition last year at the Friedman
Benda gallery in New York, the Campanas' first solo gallery
Ouro Preto Floor Lamp
