Utstilling

Fragments for an Archive / Vinicius Libardoni

Through layering, manipulation, and digital construction, the image is approached as an unstable site — continuously reworked through acts of mediation, repetition, and labor. Drawing on fragments of memory and archival material, the works function as provisional studies in which forms are tested, displaced, and recomposed, resisting closure. Rather than a finished body of work, the exhibition unfolds as an active inquiry, where images remain contingent and in flux, anticipating — but not yet arriving at — their eventual material articulation in print.

Vinicius Libardoni is an architect and visual artist working at the intersection of printmaking and spatial thinking. His practice operates between disciplines, expanding printmaking into a spatial and material field. Rooted in the built environment, his work engages memory, absence, transformation, and time, focusing on architectures that persist as traces — abandoned, altered, or erased.
At the center of his practice are the Concrete Printed Objects, a body of work that extends print beyond paper into tridimensional sculptural installations. Developed through a self-defined process, these works merge etching, casting, and construction, where concrete becomes both image and matter. Buildings appear as fragments, imprints, suspended in time — neither fully present nor gone, but caught between form and its uncertain future. Through this process, printmaking becomes an archaeological act, recovering lost architectures and reactivating their presence in space.
Across his work, Libardoni constructs a field that is both evidence and gesture — a continuous attempt to hold what is disappearing. It unfolds between permanence and fragility, structure and erosion, memory and invention. Rather than preserving the past, he rebuilds it as experience: tactile, incomplete, open. What emerges is a practice where architecture becomes imprint, and print becomes a way of keeping time in matter.
Vinicius Libardoni holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), and both an MFA and a PhD in Arts from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland. His research and artistic practice expand traditional printmaking through experimental processes that merge etching with construction materials, developing a distinctive approach that moves the image into three-dimensional space.
Libardoni is currently in a Visiting Position as an Assistant Professor of Art at the New York University Abu Dhabi. His work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, biennials, and printmaking triennials, contributing to the expanded field of contemporary printmaking.