Pablo Valbuena
09 Sep - 23 Oct 2010
PABLO VALBUENA
"Vanishing Points"
September 9 - October 23, 2010
Trained as an architect, Pablo Valbuena has been linked to tangent fields related to art and architecture developing spatial concepts applied to virtual environments and digital architecture. He is currently developing new ways of using light altering the perception of physical space through projected virtual realities. His work is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation, creating a tension between the virtual and the real.
In his first solo exhibition at Max Estrella Gallery, an installation superimposes a kinetic cartography (its own abstract representation) to one of the rooms of the gallery. The artist projects a drawing, a map of the space, onto the space itself. The real and the virtual gallery overlap.
Pablo ́s work is based on tools as old as trompe l'oeil or perspective. He manipulates the audience perception. The space transformation is achieved by movement, light and shadow. Instead of building architectures with physical materials, the projection of lines and planes of light is which creates the illusion of new spaces, redrawing them, extending them, emptying them.
Three site-specific works are developed for the gallery space complemented by other video pieces focused on the same research.
The result is a play of light and shadow. Present and absent. Virtual and real. The main idea is to work inside the perception process of the observer, destabilizing the mechanisms of perception.
Pablo Valbuena (Madrid, 1978) has been recently commissioned to do public-art projects for institutions of several countries. Worth mentioning are the installation at The Hague City Hall (Netherlands) or the one on the facade of the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City.
In Spain his work could be seen on public spaces such as la Plaza de las Letras (Medialab Prado, Madrid) and Murcia City Hall. He has also presented his work in exhibition spaces as Sala Parpalló (Valencia), Laboral Centro de Arte (Gijón) and Matadero (Madrid), where his last site specific, Quadratura, has been widely aknowledged at a national level.
Internationally he has recently exhibited and presented his work at the 5th International Biennial in Seoul, the OK Centre for Contemporary Art in Austria, the Netherlands Media Arts Institute, BankART Studio NYK in Yokohama, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei and other exhibitions and public-art interventions in Singapore, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Brazil.
For the upcoming months he is currently working on several site-specific installations for museums in New York and Tampa (Florida), as well as public-art interventions in Canada and Belgium.
"Vanishing Points"
September 9 - October 23, 2010
Trained as an architect, Pablo Valbuena has been linked to tangent fields related to art and architecture developing spatial concepts applied to virtual environments and digital architecture. He is currently developing new ways of using light altering the perception of physical space through projected virtual realities. His work is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation, creating a tension between the virtual and the real.
In his first solo exhibition at Max Estrella Gallery, an installation superimposes a kinetic cartography (its own abstract representation) to one of the rooms of the gallery. The artist projects a drawing, a map of the space, onto the space itself. The real and the virtual gallery overlap.
Pablo ́s work is based on tools as old as trompe l'oeil or perspective. He manipulates the audience perception. The space transformation is achieved by movement, light and shadow. Instead of building architectures with physical materials, the projection of lines and planes of light is which creates the illusion of new spaces, redrawing them, extending them, emptying them.
Three site-specific works are developed for the gallery space complemented by other video pieces focused on the same research.
The result is a play of light and shadow. Present and absent. Virtual and real. The main idea is to work inside the perception process of the observer, destabilizing the mechanisms of perception.
Pablo Valbuena (Madrid, 1978) has been recently commissioned to do public-art projects for institutions of several countries. Worth mentioning are the installation at The Hague City Hall (Netherlands) or the one on the facade of the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City.
In Spain his work could be seen on public spaces such as la Plaza de las Letras (Medialab Prado, Madrid) and Murcia City Hall. He has also presented his work in exhibition spaces as Sala Parpalló (Valencia), Laboral Centro de Arte (Gijón) and Matadero (Madrid), where his last site specific, Quadratura, has been widely aknowledged at a national level.
Internationally he has recently exhibited and presented his work at the 5th International Biennial in Seoul, the OK Centre for Contemporary Art in Austria, the Netherlands Media Arts Institute, BankART Studio NYK in Yokohama, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei and other exhibitions and public-art interventions in Singapore, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Brazil.
For the upcoming months he is currently working on several site-specific installations for museums in New York and Tampa (Florida), as well as public-art interventions in Canada and Belgium.