Pedrita: Pato Mudo

The Portuguese design studio presents a new panel installation which uses tiles as pixels, allowing a double reading of textures and motifs: each of the 559 tiles was selected from discontinued production lines.

Portuguese design studio Pedrita has recently presented the Pato Mudo ["Silent Duck"] tile panel in Belém, Lisboa. Installed in the wall of the Botanical Tropical Garden, the panel makes use of Pedrita's grão technique, which uses of each tile as a pixel, in order to to reproduce an image from a photograph. Using a digital base, dozens of tiles are laid side-by-side composing a wider image, allowing for two possible readings: the distance of the human scale, for those who walk near the panel and see the various drawings and motifs on the tiles that compose it; and the distance of the urban scale, for those who walk at a greater distance, and obtain, at a glance, the total perception of the reproduced image.

The panel uses 559 15 x 15 cm tiles selected from discontinued production lines of Portuguese factories, to a full height of 4,5 metres and a width of 5,5 metres. The tiles were provided by Cortiço & Netos, a company that stores and sells end of line tiles, and has gathered over 30 years a collection illustrating the history of this specific Portuguese industrial production.

Pedrita, <em>Pato Mudo</em> ["Silent Duck"] tile panel, Belém, Portugal, 2012 — Pedrita, *Pato Mudo* ["Silent Duck"] tile panel, Belém, Portugal, 2012

Pedrita: Pato Mudo
Artistic intervention: Pedrita
Promoting entity: Projecto Travessa da Ermida
Project direction: Eduardo Fernandes
Production direction: Fábia Fernandes
Production direction "Pato Mudo": Sérgio Parreira
Equipments and assemblies: José Vaz Fernandes
Organization: Projecto Travessa da Ermida
Sponsors: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Jardim Botânico Tropical, Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém and Cortiço & Netos

Pedrita: Pato Mudo

The Portuguese design studio presents a new panel installation which uses tiles as pixels, allowing a double reading of textures and motifs: each of the 559 tiles was selected from discontinued production lines.

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