Rubens Gerchman

Triunfo Hermético [Hermetic Triumph] , 1972

ID: 465

35mm, in color

14m

The film Triunfo Hermético was produced in 1972, in Rio de Janeiro, by Rubens Gerchman. The soundtrack was originally composed by Stanley Clark, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim. In 1999, the 16mm copy of the film was restored by Laboratoire Daems, in Paris.

When Rubens Gerchman comes back to Brazil, after a long stay in New York, he brings back in his luggage the script of Triunfo Hermético. The film, selected by festivals in Latin America and the United States, synthesizes the whole conceptual phase that the artist developed in the exterior, taking the artist-filmmaker's own body into the words and their primordial meanings. This relationship between the return to the native country and the desire to film words in their maternal elements is very significant, because it is a new support linked to the register of a primitive memory, of nostalgia, of the desired country in which the body, the language, the birth is imprinted.

It would not be surprising to realize that the theme of identity is recurrent in Rubens Gerchman's work. Besides its importance within the artist's life and work, Triunfo Hermético is also inserted in the historical context in which Brazilian cinema, the invention of portable cameras, and the mass use of the Super 8 camera, incite every artist engaged to experiment with cinema. Rubens Gerchman does it with greater success abroad than in his beloved country. Although many have written or commented on the cinematic nature of his paintings, few recognize his talent as a filmmaker. Triunfo Hermético only entered an audiovisual program outside of its time of production, the first time in 2014, at MoMA, in the exhibition Apocalypopótese and After. In 2022 it was shown in the exhibition SOL, curated by Alexandre da Cunha, at Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo and in "This Must Be the Place", at the Americas Society, in NY.


"Spilling down the wall and onto the floor near the entrance to the gallery, the wooden letterforms of Rubens Gerchman’s Sky Eye Yellow Line NY, 1969, at once announce the conceptual thread of “SOL,” a group exhibition curated by artist Alexandre da Cunha. Painted in a harsh yellow, Gerchman’s sculpture describes daylight without directly naming its source. Both the errant phrase and a rare short film of Gerchman’s—Triunfo Hermético, shot on 16 mm in Rio de Janeiro in 1972—mark the gallery (and the landscape) as a place where language can become a physical material prone to weathering and decay. When the word “sol” finally appears in Triunfo Hermético, it slips between “sal” and “sul” in successive frames, a consonance also sustained by steady surf and the sun dazzling overhead, its reflection glancing through the O." (Kari Rittenbach - https://www.artforum.com/picks/sol-88552)
Rubens Gerchman
Triunfo Hermético [Hermetic Triumph] , 1972
35mm, in color
14m
Rubens Gerchman
Triunfo Hermético [Hermetic Triumph] , 1972
35mm, in color
14m
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Rubens Gerchman
Triunfo Hermético [Hermetic Triumph] , 1972
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The film Triunfo Hermético was produced in 1972, in Rio de Janeiro, by Rubens Gerchman. The soundtrack was originally composed by Stanley Clark, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim. In 1999, the 16mm copy of the film was restored by Laboratoire Daems, in Paris.

When Rubens Gerchman comes back to Brazil, after a long stay in New York, he brings back in his luggage the script of Triunfo Hermético. The film, selected by festivals in Latin America and the United States, synthesizes the whole conceptual phase that the artist developed in the exterior, taking the artist-filmmaker's own body into the words and their primordial meanings. This relationship between the return to the native country and the desire to film words in their maternal elements is very significant, because it is a new support linked to the register of a primitive memory, of nostalgia, of the desired country in which the body, the language, the birth is imprinted.

It would not be surprising to realize that the theme of identity is recurrent in Rubens Gerchman's work. Besides its importance within the artist's life and work, Triunfo Hermético is also inserted in the historical context in which Brazilian cinema, the invention of portable cameras, and the mass use of the Super 8 camera, incite every artist engaged to experiment with cinema. Rubens Gerchman does it with greater success abroad than in his beloved country. Although many have written or commented on the cinematic nature of his paintings, few recognize his talent as a filmmaker. Triunfo Hermético only entered an audiovisual program outside of its time of production, the first time in 2014, at MoMA, in the exhibition Apocalypopótese and After. In 2022 it was shown in the exhibition SOL, curated by Alexandre da Cunha, at Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo and in "This Must Be the Place", at the Americas Society, in NY.


"Spilling down the wall and onto the floor near the entrance to the gallery, the wooden letterforms of Rubens Gerchman’s Sky Eye Yellow Line NY, 1969, at once announce the conceptual thread of “SOL,” a group exhibition curated by artist Alexandre da Cunha. Painted in a harsh yellow, Gerchman’s sculpture describes daylight without directly naming its source. Both the errant phrase and a rare short film of Gerchman’s—Triunfo Hermético, shot on 16 mm in Rio de Janeiro in 1972—mark the gallery (and the landscape) as a place where language can become a physical material prone to weathering and decay. When the word “sol” finally appears in Triunfo Hermético, it slips between “sal” and “sul” in successive frames, a consonance also sustained by steady surf and the sun dazzling overhead, its reflection glancing through the O." (Kari Rittenbach - https://www.artforum.com/picks/sol-88552)
Rubens Gerchman
Triunfo Hermético [Hermetic Triumph], 1972
35mm, in color
14m
Rubens Gerchman
Triunfo Hermético [Hermetic Triumph], 1972
35mm, in color
14m
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