EXHIBITION: 'ARCHITECTURE OF AIR'. DOMUS DEL PÓRTICO

How to give form to nothing? Picasso asked himself when he was commissioned to create a monument in honour of his friend, the surrealist poet Apollinaire, after his death in 1918. Picasso asked Julio González for help. The result? Mass and volume are replaced by compositions of open planes. Emptiness emerges as a new element in sculpture. Picasso first thought of making a cage, because according to him, cages give form to the air and enclose it without enclosing it. Because there is nothing freer than air in a cage, he said.

In Architectures of the Air, sculpture becomes a generator of dialogues and perceptions between line, space, colour, light and shadow. Starting from the line as a matrix, I begin a plastic experience in which the two-dimensionality of the plane is liberated from this kind of servitude of two dimensions to embark on a journey into space. A nervous and vibrant journey that builds structures in front of which the spectator feels active and builds his own spaces. Visual and conceptual journeys full of echoes, perceptive winks, lines of force and tension, which end up signifying a visual, spatial and sensorial experience.

In Architectures of the Air I explore formal and linguistic issues. Form always generates meanings and therefore semantic results are also obtained that can be complex and stimulating. Far from reducing expressive vocabulary to questions of space, scale, colour, surface, movement or rhythm, I want to suggest relationships with architecture, art history and the world around me.

These are sculptures that do not have a single point of view, but rather generate multiple spaces, which, together with the lighting, allow the spectator to participate in new and original dimensions in his observation, thus completing the work. They are sculptures worked with spontaneity, with a drawing and accidental stroke, fleeing from the straight and geometric line, seeking the felt, the lived, and all presented with immediacy and gestures. They are sculptures that form a chord of mutable and changing perceptions.

I want my works to appear to be in a constant state of balance. I try to find their expressiveness in the resolution of spatial rhythmic tensions, creating a syntax that avoids chaotic results, where a constructive and compositional vision becomes important. I try to make them characterized by an apparent lightness, by being painting and drawing in space. The result is a work full of plastic intensity, while at the same time subtle and forceful, from which emerges a visual play of light, shadow, space, color and architecture.

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MONDAY: CLOSED

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