Ordi Calder Bio

BIO

Ordí Calder 38, was born in Nova Olímpia, Paraná, graduated in history and did postgraduate degrees in Graphic Design; he was a graphic design professional since 1999, when started working at his father's visual communication company. Ordí studied Guitar as a child, and later studied guitar and bass and played two band projects for 4 years between 1999-2004, when he lived in Cuiabá Mato Grosso where moved with his family in 1994.

After purchasing his first Reflex camera in 2002, a Canon Av-1 50mm, Calder devoting himself to studies as a self-taught photographer in the UFMT library with photography books from decades ago. He has been loaned from a friend and did not return, handouts from a very useful decades ago professional photography course at the Instituto Universal Brasileiro. Shortly after acquired 07 Fotóptica Magazines from the 60s / 70s from a Sebo of a friend at the “block” where he studied History (UFMT). Today he acknowledges that was unconsciously influenced by Brazilian Photographer Thomas Farkas and other photographers of the time. Calder production was random, at least 60% of his work was Abstract and Conceptual until 2008 when he made the project of his first Exhibition Spellings Light, graphics facts (with selection notice, to exhibit at the Art Gallery of SESC Arsenal, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso) and gathered these works for the first time and realized the strength of the series, with 7 photographs and saw that it was solid, "no gaps, difficult to overthrow."

As a child Ordí liked to see books of the masters of painting in libraries. He learned to draw with his mother and always drew on the school notebooks and, from a very early age, photographed in the compact cameras of the adults when they left. At 11 years his father took home, with intent to buy, what did not, a Yashica camera Hasselblad model. Ordí take the camera hidden from the others, and became amazed by the Camera. At 12 years old he changed his best toy, a small porshe, by a used camera, a Kodak compact film 110. He photographed compact cameras to film in his teens until he bought his first reflex camera; made Pinhole Photography Workshop and later entered a Photo-club in Cuiabá where he exchanged some experiences with veteran photographers.

In the second year to shoot with Reflex Camera he began to register in Cuiabá art competitions, being selected with three works in the Salão Jovem Arte (young Art hall) Matogrossense in 2003 and 2004. In 2005 three works awarded with Honorable Mention in the 1st Look About Cuiabá, MISC.

In 2004 Ordí made History, played bass in a band and worked part time as Graphic Designer, besides photographing. In July he suffers a motorcycle accident and stayed in a coma. He recovers miraculously, remembers a dream in which he was in a recovery clinic learning to paint. He decided to leave the band and focus his creativity only on photography. During the recovery a friend lends him a book of Freemasonry, Sacred Geometry by Nigel Pennick. It was like drinking from the fountain, this book is the basis of the photographic poetics that would be developed four years later.

In 2006 Ordí moved to São Paulo to do postgraduate studies in Graphic Design and can attend museums and art institutions. In 2008 already in Cuiabá and working as a freelancer in Graphic Design, he made his first project for the Edict of the Arts Gallery of SESC Arsenal, which chooses as a body of work the works Spellings Light, graphics facts series, photographed between 2004 and 2009.

In 2010, Calder decides to give up Graphic Design and finally dedicate itself only to photography and, with the support of his family he moved to Rio de Janeiro to accompany his girlfriend who would do a PhD at UERJ, and 4 months later they moved to Cabo Frio where they would live in the next 3 years. In 2011 he began to register in international art competitions after being disappointed with the results of what he classified as cliques in the national competitions he encountered, few at the time.

The photographs that Ordí Calder does are messages carved from light into shadows for the future, to carry his search for balance, harmony and peace; It makes a cut in the appropriate photograph by the communication channels and commercial control systems and, deconstructs the Real mediatized, to see the essence of the forms and the structures of the organic matter and mineral, the geometric forms that organize stars, planets and galaxies. Above as below, the philosophy that drives the gaze of Ordí, that attended Gnosis between 1999 and 2000 is metaphysics of esoteric and surreal inspiration, besides psychedellic culture.

Calder only photographs when he finds in the everyday a scene that touches him; there is an alignment of his searches and inspirations, aesthetically mesmerized in that projection of the "sunlight to draw in shadows after focusing on architectural structures constructed by the human hands, and to draw graphisms, signs and geometric symbols on artificial surfaces, all constructed by human hands, incorporating the immutable values ​​of the cosmos such as geometry, colors, electricity .."

Each Photograph is a mandala, it is the chaordic convergence between Calder’s Order of which are the bearer and the Chaos of the world in which we live. Ordí believes that Photography materializes something subjective and transforms it into Intersection in Time, an artifact with the power to sensitize other consciousnesses in the Future.The artist wants his art to emit its light in consecrated art spaces such as galleries and museums, as well as private, commercial and residential spaces. . The artist's vision is to reach a place in the pantheon of art, and for this besides the great and respectable public, he wants to be recognized by his peers, curators, galleries, museums and collectors.