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manuel arturo abreu, Untitled (2018). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Untitled (2018). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Legbá (2017). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Untitled (2018). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Untitled (2018). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Beneath the music from a farther room (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Four cardinals of the circle of fifths + 4:5 polyrhythm as circle (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, No-input sculpture for Josu (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Beneath the music from a farther room (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Occupying American soldiers riding down Calle Isabel la católica, 1917, Santo Domingo (2017). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Beneath the music from a farther room (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Beneath the music from a farther room (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Silence but it keeps getting faster (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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manuel arturo abreu, Dead males (2015–2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, Portland.
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Exploring musicality & language through found objects & magical thinking with manuel arturo abreu

, 2 July 2019
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Beneath the music from a farther room, a solo exhibition by manuel arturo abreu, was on show at AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, between May 6 and 24.

With sculpture, video, sound and printed matter, the exhibition quietly uses visual poetry to explore musicality, abstraction and language. Die-cut vinyl on the gallery window ornately depicts musically notated silence, an audio mixer as sculpture creates ‘no-input’ noise by feeding its own signal back into itself, organic and inorganic matter such as stones, chicken bones and detritus are used in works throughout the gallery. In these fleeting assemblages, the artist uses “what is at hand in a process of magical thinking, with attention to ritual aspects of aesthetics.”

manuel arturo abreu’s Beneath the music from a farther room was on at AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University, from May 6 to 24, 2019.

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