Architect and artist
João Diniz announced, through his Instagram, the completion of his newest book, "
O Livro das Linhas ", released by Caravana Editora as a
physical product and
e-book . The book brings together a series of poems from his authorship written over the last five years, only now organized by the artist. The world of poetry is not foreign to the architect, who had already explored these paths in his career as an artist, with the book "
Ábaco " (2011) and "
Aforismos Experimentais " (2014); in addition to "
Visible Cities ", in 2013 — an experimental book with a limited print run. In the introduction written by the poet
Tonico Mercador for "The Book of Lines", he states: "In this creative, senseless, absolute
Book of Lines , whose
verses are piled up like a building, a tower, a castle , João Diniz confirms
Kandinsky in his book 'Point and Line on the Plane': 'The geometric line is an invisible being. It is the trace that the point leaves when it moves and, therefore, it is its result. It arises from the movement when it destroys the total rest of the point. Here we makes the leap from static to dynamic'. Here,
there are several lines that move, as if João Diniz wanted, with them, to show that it is possible to sow the desert with words , that poems can guide the abandoned man, the lonely man, to another landscape, to a stimulating becoming".
Installations with a vocation for a work of art
Anyone who thinks that the two universes cannot coexist is mistaken: for
João Diniz , poetry is architecture, and architecture is poetry. Born in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, the poet-architect established himself in Belo Horizonte as the head of the eponymous office with public and residential works; but especially for
the installations that are true works of art — both in concept and execution . Proof of this is
Cuboesia , a multisensory installation created for
CASACOR Minas Gerais that revealed, on each of its sides, different six-verse poems, which leaked through its metal structure.
The nearly 4-meter-high installation filled the garden of the Palácio das Mangabeiras, in Belo Horizonte, during the 25th edition of the Minas Gerais exhibition. It was such a success that
João and Bel Diniz 's project was chosen to be part of the international
ArchDaily portal.
João Diniz's history with
CASACOR doesn't end there — on the contrary, it goes back much further. In 2015, the architect, together with
José Baccarini, designed the ticket office for the show in
Minas Gerais with a rusty steel structure that ran, at the same time, , ceiling and floor of the installation — an allusion to Niemeyer's curves, especially his works in Pampulha. The project is also part of the ArchDaily collection and can be seen
here .
