“Ver Música - BEST OF 30” by Bruno Gião

Music is not just art: the way I see it, the world of music and people's relationship with it resemble religions to a certain extent - in the sense of celebration, of worship, of the gathering of a group of people around a concept that can be embraced by the various senses - either by the physical gathering of people at a given point or in an immaterial way.

Often, either alone or with a group of friends, we join a human mass much larger than our own, in order to celebrate an artist or a group of artists. And in those moments, in the middle of a group of strangers that we see united by a common element, suddenly we look around us, and we are all brothers, all equal - we grouped ourselves in the same place, which ends up working as a true temple: the common space that despite all our eventual differences we end up sharing, respecting each other and feeling grateful, almost as if blessed by the experience that was provided to us.

From the point of view of my work, a good part of it is intrinsically related to this art, and in my daily life, I often marry the worlds of Design and Music, interpreting and transforming something we hear and feel into something tangible that we can also see.

Throughout my career, both professional and personal - and either by my own initiative as art director of a specific project, or in a more technical and sporadic sense as a participant in a portion of a project - I have managed to gather in my own collection a varied selection of objects produced for music videos, live shows and the like: this is a set of props, studies, sketches and distinctive pieces (some commemorative, limited edition), which I created, used, or continue to use, and which are both my own productions in some cases, and collaborations with other colleagues, other artists.

Conceptually, this exhibition appears in the context of the celebration of my thirtieth birthday. This year I complete 30 years, and to commemorate it, it occurred to me that as a way of celebrating music as I feel it, I should organize a pilgrimage: to gather for the first time these different objects of the most varied scales and purposes in a single place, stretching and allowing a little more their exhibition, their use, their sharing, their life.

I, therefore, join here some items from my private collection to some others that were given to me, especially for this purpose, and I invite you to come and listen with your eyes, and take a brief tour through the world of my work, where you will find several historical pieces: a material designed and produced for ATOA, Catarina Filipe, Dillaz, T-Rex, Kappa-Jotta, 2upla among others. Have a nice trip.

Direction: Bruno Gião
Production: Bruno Gião & Custom Circus
Art Direction: Bruno Gião
Technical team: Bruno Gião, Luís Silvestre, André Pinto, Davide André
On Location Construction: Bruno Gião, Luís Silvestre, Gabriel Merki, Pedro Amado, André Pinto, Davide André, Made in Lx
Curated by: Custom Circus
Local: Nirvana Studios