With this inaugural edition of Solo Objects ARCOmadrid is opening up its spaces to a series of large-format pieces which now structure its open plazas.
These are solo objects in the space, tensing it and generating new relationships with their container, playing with its scale and breaking with the dimensions of the exhibition space itself. Some pieces, like Isaque Pinheiro’s, manipulate a toy nature whose strings are moved by beings beyond the human scale. Others, in the case of Alicia Framis, are totems that focus a desire for connection with other dimensions and reflect our world. Or abstracted architectural elements in a rereading by Can Altay. Different ways of seeing within our space, of analysing and reinterpreting reality, as Isidro Blasco’s reconstructs his architectures as a means of creation.
ARCOmadrid’s vast space is appropriated by elements that float in it, like Tomás Saraceno’s new iridescent planet, or by the movements of a light, quasi-dematerialised piece by Magdalena Fernández whose geometry is redefined as it revolves. A plaza is signposted by Marlon de Azambuja with flags which do not unfurl in the wind, symbols of a Europe in crisis.
The identity of elements borrowed from everyday reality is transformed when they are decontextualised. A public mise en scène of intimacies by Vasco Araújo which is superimposed by discourse, hanging in front of it like new clothing. The lines of a vehicle are transformed in the double sculpture by Jean-Luc Moulène in a creative— and mediatic—operation between industry, sponsorship and art creation, between the readymade object and morphogenesis. Adriano Amaral’s suspended constructive objects introduce a calm tension, while an abandoned load of cans of baking powder by Marius Engh is symbolically contaminated by a cult film.
Objects made of words and of memories. Letters and symbols that mark our essence are written in the imaginary, characters, by Plensa that form the skin of our soul and rise up over the ground of ARCOmadrid.
These are solo objects taken from the habitat of the gallery to construct that intermediate space between it and the real world that will host them after the art fair.
Andersen’s Contemporary
TOMÁS SARACENO
Iridescent Planet XL, 2012
Iridescent foil, latex balloon, lamp, pump with pressure regulator
Ed. 3
Henrique Faria Fine Art
MAGDALENA FERNÁNDEZ
1em005 (Cuadrado móvil), 2005
Tubes and aluminium connectors
280 x 280 cm
Max Estrella
MARLON DE AZAMBUJA
Cuestión Nacional, 2011
18 euro zone flags, concrete, masts and resin
210 x 40 x 40 cm c.u. each
Transversal
ADRIANO AMARAL
Sem Título, 2011
Concrete block, japanese paper and bee’s wax
373 x 39 x 9 cm
Ybakatu espaço de arte
ISAQUE PINHEIRO
Em cima da Terra e debaixo do Céu, 2008
Wood and linen
400 x 500 x 400 cm
Arcade
CAN ALTAY
Exedra Levelling Field, 2012
Barbara Gross + Annet Gelink Gallery
ALICIA FRAMIS
Letters to the sky, 2011
Stainless steel sphere
ø 150 cm, Stainless steel
4 mm, 230 kg
Chantal Crousel
JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE
Body Versus Twizy, 2011
Production Renault Automobiles
Collection Renault, France
140 x 230 x 100 cm
Twizy Custom, 2012
Renault Twizy customized by the artist
Unique work
Filomena Soares
VASCO ARAÚJO
Trabalhos para nada “Sem Qualidades”, 2011
Installation: Wooden wardrobe, acrylic glass with handwritten text, hanging clothes
186 x 166 x 61 cm
Unique piece
Fúcares
ISIDRO BLASCO
Titled, 2011
C-Print, acid free cardboard and wood
250 x 260 x 170 cm (aprox.)
Gentili
MARIUS ENGH
CALUMET, 2012
Object. 120 cans of Calumet Baking Powder. Plastic wrap, wooden pallet
150 x 120 x 80 cm
Lelong
JAUME PLENSA
Marrakech’s Soul, 2011
Stainless steel