Isidro Blasco
14 Sep - 04 Nov 2006
ISIDRO BLASCO
Fúcares Gallery in Madrid presents an individual exhibition by the artist Isidro Blasco (Madrid, 1964).
In his last works, Isidro Blasco presents sculptures made with digital photographs, common construction materials and video, in order to assemble these tri-dimensional constructions and rebuild the interior and exterior spaces of his personal vision of the city of New York.
Blasco represents exclusively his home and his studio, which are his personal spaces. These urban interiors are reassembled for the viewer as photo-sculptures displaying the dimensions of the space, sometimes including his family and neighbours.
In these new works, Blasco enlarges the scope of his work towards the urban space that surrounds the interior spaces of his former works. Despite being available for any walker in the city, the places chosen are personal in that they are those that the artist most frequents. The Times Square skyscrapers are reconstructed and twisted to approach the way in which he recalls them from his daily walk from the tube station to his studio. Facades and buildings in of Manhattan and Queens are reconfigured into impossible shapes, but this is the only viable way for Blasco to reconjure them. In his journeys, the artist cannot help imagining cinematographic manifestations of imminent disasters. Planes, tornados and smoke cross the cityscape, visualising the artist’s fears from September 2001. In connection with these images of disasters, Blasco presents a video installation referring to a typical street in the city. The viewer is given the occasion of participating in his own memories and feelings. The fusion of photography, sculpture, architecture, video and sound, create here a total landscape.
© Isidro Blasco
“O'S ROOM I”, 2006.
Wood and photography. 210 x 46 x 160 cms.
Fúcares Gallery in Madrid presents an individual exhibition by the artist Isidro Blasco (Madrid, 1964).
In his last works, Isidro Blasco presents sculptures made with digital photographs, common construction materials and video, in order to assemble these tri-dimensional constructions and rebuild the interior and exterior spaces of his personal vision of the city of New York.
Blasco represents exclusively his home and his studio, which are his personal spaces. These urban interiors are reassembled for the viewer as photo-sculptures displaying the dimensions of the space, sometimes including his family and neighbours.
In these new works, Blasco enlarges the scope of his work towards the urban space that surrounds the interior spaces of his former works. Despite being available for any walker in the city, the places chosen are personal in that they are those that the artist most frequents. The Times Square skyscrapers are reconstructed and twisted to approach the way in which he recalls them from his daily walk from the tube station to his studio. Facades and buildings in of Manhattan and Queens are reconfigured into impossible shapes, but this is the only viable way for Blasco to reconjure them. In his journeys, the artist cannot help imagining cinematographic manifestations of imminent disasters. Planes, tornados and smoke cross the cityscape, visualising the artist’s fears from September 2001. In connection with these images of disasters, Blasco presents a video installation referring to a typical street in the city. The viewer is given the occasion of participating in his own memories and feelings. The fusion of photography, sculpture, architecture, video and sound, create here a total landscape.
© Isidro Blasco
“O'S ROOM I”, 2006.
Wood and photography. 210 x 46 x 160 cms.