The term decisive moment, internationally spread by Henri Cartier-Bresson, derives from a phrase by Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (1613/1679) cleric, memoir writer and activist, who helped to provoke the protests of less privileged populations. and homeless people against Louis XIV in the revolts that became known as The Fronda. The complete sentence of Cardinal de Retz : “There is nothing in the world that does not have its decisive moment and the exponent of good procedure is to recognize and seize that occasion”, in the reading of the curator of the show, Rosely Nakagawa, still refers to Chinese art, to the practice of Zen art in the apprehension and observation of the art world in a broader way, and to the 19 drawings-painting presented at Utopia from February 16th to April 6th. A decisive moment present, for example, in the duality between reflection-action presented by Rubens Matuck. In the capture of/and a gesture faster than a photographic click, her brushstroke-drawing materializes immediately on paper, materializing the thought-emotion in a joint movement of body-behavior that transforms the plastic-graphic universe, in the words of the curator.
Rubens Matuck (São Paulo, SP 1952) studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of São Paulo in the 1970s. So, he had already started in visual arts, studying with Aldemir Martins and Samson Flexor in the late sixties, and Renina Katz during college years. He worked with illustration at Jornal da Tarde until 1977, when he began to dedicate himself entirely to the visual arts, continuing his career as an illustrator exclusively for children's books. He held several exhibitions of his artistic work, highlighting the individual shows at SESC Paulista in 1981, at Galeria São Paulo in 1986, at MASP in 1998. their artistic production. In 2016 the book referring to the show was released by Edições SESC; the same will be on sale at the Utopian gallery on the 16th of February.