PEDRO BARATEIRO: Currency, Currency

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Pedro Barateiro, "Currency, Currency (detail)," 2016

Remai Modern is very pleased to announce its latest web commission, by internationally acclaimed Portuguese artist Pedro Barateiro. The project is curated by Gregory Burke, Executive Director & CEO, and Sandra Guimarães, Director of Programs & Chief Curator at Remai Modern.

In association with its pre-launch programs, Remai Modern has been inviting artists to realize original projects exclusively for online viewing. On the first day of every month, work by a new artist appears on Remai Modern’s homepage. Past website commissions remain accessible in the online archive. Through these commissions, the museum considers its website as an extension of its physical space and onsite program. Mobile and experimental, this online gallery allows for direct, personal encounters with art while connecting with artists and audiences across the globe.

The title presents the idea of speculative value in relation to the production of an object. Currency, Currency deals with the formation and constant reshaping of a structure by internal and external forces, natural and mechanical. In this context, the artist uses the pencil as object and also as symbolic container; both as an immediate extension tool of the brain and as a device for creating a dynamic pattern or language.

The word currency reflects the intangible exchange assumed in this web commission for Remai Modern. The presentation space — the website — has currency with the spectator. This honours the relationship between the museum and its present and future visitors.