Jose Pedro Croft
Vv.Aa.,
Publisher: Xunta De Galicia
ISBN: 8445335618 Edition: Paperback; 2004-01-02
"The sculptor suggests viewers engage in exercises of approach and escape."
"The hand as the extension of the eye, the eye as a prelude to touch."
"painting bronze (white) to relieve the sense of weight."
"He replaces volumes with their defining lines, he knocks down planes to create delicately balanced figures, extremely slight shapes the eye is continually approaching yet does never actually rest upon them."
"An object between painting and sculpture. It is not replacing anything; it does not want to represent anything beyond what it actually is: presence and witness of the world at the same time." [On "Sin titulo 2002, carton y espejo 35x21cm (Prada shoebox lid)]
"...totalising sculpture, where everything matters, makes a difference, makes sense."
"The important thing is to perceive the spaces between lines, between colour fields, exploring the representation of depth and movement. However, the artist despises the mathematic precision in favour of a more organic evolution of shapes and planes, incorporating work accidents: draining colours, stains, inkblots, fingerprints etc. The results of these procedures tend to adhere to the scaffolding where the drawing began, installing an increasing disorder by bringing about a stimulating energy to one of the founding structures of modernism."
Croft Jose Pedro - Cadernos De Viagem
Jose Pedro Croft,
Publisher: Xunta de Galicia
ISBN: 8445335316 Edition: Hardcover; 2003-07-31
"Drawings by sculptors are different, there is something about them which gives them a distinctive air, something that is difficult to pinpoint."
"Suffice it to vary by a millimetre."
"...he lingers before hollows, before the appearance of the three-dimensional as an emotion rather than as a certainty."
