Isidro Blasco | Latest Work by Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea

CARLOS CARVALHO ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA

Isidro Blasco, Latest Work

CARLOS CARVALHO ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA

Isidro Blasco, Latest Work

16/09ATÉ - 07/11 06/062015 2014 | ON DISPLAY UNTIL 06/06 2015

Isidro Blasco, Latest Work

A galeria Carlos Carvalho tem o prazer de anunciar a primeira exposição individual do artista Isidro Blasco em Portugal. Uma das linhas principais do trabalho deste artista é mostrar como a apreensão da realidade não é objectiva, difere de acordo com as experiências individuais. Explicar o mundo de um modelo racional a partir de um ponto de vista neutral e distanciado, é sempre condicionado pelo observador cuja elaboração existe de acordo com um contexto. Por isso o artista constrói um repertório de imagens em que associa a arquitectura, a escultura, a fotografia e a instalação para mostrar como a percepção só existe entendida a experiência física. Neste processo elabora construções tridimensionais reinventando espaços interiores e ambientes urbanos que se inicia na captação de imagens de por exemplo, um ângulo de um quarto privado para a partir daí criar um novo espaço reformulando a perspectiva o que resulta na fragmentação de uma única linha de visão. O artista iniciou o seu percurso questionando a relação antropomórfica entre o seu corpo e a casa, confronto que originou um conjunto de questões que são base de trabalho deste artista. Por isso Isidro Blasco recorre à

tridimensionalidade para oferecer novas perspectivas ao objecto fotografado deixando espaço para outros entendimentos. Deste modo, o artista analisa o desdobramento de estruturas através da fragmentação e manipulação da superfície estrutural, pelo uso das assimetrias e ordens geométricas múltiplas, que envolvem as superfícies numa métrica descontínua, reforçando a ideia de movimento, dinamismo e energia vibrantes. Partindo deste ponto, podemos dialogar sobre as contaminações do desconstrutivismo na arte contemporânea, numa perspectiva que permite percepcionar e observar a forma como os elementos se inserem no espaço e também estudar as combinações de elementos nos objectos, observando um princípio de expansão e outro de contracção. Estes trabalhos agem em sentido contrário à expectativa visual do observador forçando-o a entender a imagem da realidade pulverizada em pequenas imagens e logo em assimetria e instabilidade. A desobstrução destas expectativas tradicionais orienta a atenção do observador para uma espécie de para visualidade que permitem outra leituras.

Isidro Blasco, Latest Work

Carlos Carvalho Contemporary Art gallery is pleased to announce Isidro Blascoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first solo show in Portugal. The artist makes an assemblage of works which combines architecture, sculpture, photography and installation. He started his career by questioning the anthropomorphic relationship between his own body and the idea of the house. This confrontation has resulted in a set of questions that are the basis of his work. Blasco shows how the apprehension of reality canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be perceived in objective terms, it differs according to the sensitivity of the observer. The perception is intrinsically related to individual experience and it only exists following this term. Blasco points out that reality can not be explained using a rational model that is built from a neutral and detached point of view. This understanding depends always on the observer and the context. According to this, this artist draws three-dimensional objects to offer new perspectives to the photographed object. In his process of work, Isidro Blasco develops a threedimensional constructions reinventing indoor and urban environments that begin in capturing images of, for example, an angle of a private room to create from

there a new space, reshaping the perspective and distorting the presence of a single line of vision. This work results in the deployment of structures by breaking the surface, the use of geometric asymmetry and multiple orders. The work of Isidro Blasco act in the opposite direction to the normal visual expectations of the observer forcing him to understand the picture of reality pulverized into small images. By performing asymmetry and instability of the vision, the artist obstructs the tradicional viewing modes, guiding the viewer's attention to a kind of para-visuality that allows other readings.

Tower, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 34 x 34 x 8 cm

Inside Arc, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 28 x 20 x 8 cm

Lisbon Double St, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 27 x 25 x 6 cm

Lisbon Arc, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 28 x 17 x 5 cm

Lisbon Wave, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 115 x 44 x 13 cm

Helsinki Planet, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 83 x 83 x 10 cm

Madrid Planet, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 87 x 87 x 19 cm

Bushwick at Jefferson, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 65 x 74 x 11 cm

Bushwick Subway I, 2014, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 31 x 18 x 8 cm

NYC Subway 3, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 70 x 54 x 50 cm

NYC Subway 2, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 67 x 67 x 63 cm

NYC Subway 11, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 36 x 45 x 50 cm

NYC Subway 7, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 60 x 62 x 58 cm

NYC Subway 11, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 50 x 60 x 28 cm

Washington Heights 1, 2015, C-print, wood, acid free museum board, 123 x 98 x 118 cm

Imagens da Exposição Exhibition Views

ISIDRO BLASCO

(Madrid, Spain Espanha, 1962). Vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque. Works and lives in New York, USA. Exposições individuais (selecção) | Solo exhibitions (selection) Casa en Línea (Moneo-Brock Studio . Madrid, Espanha, 2015) Impakto (galeria, Lima . Perú, 2015) Deconstructed Landscapes (Museu Metropolitano de Arte, MuMa . Curitiba, Brasil, 2014) Sydney Interiors (Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2013) Wave Hill (The Bronx, Nova York, 2012) Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, Nova York, 2011) Aqui Huidizo (Comunidad de Madrid, Alcala 31. Madrid, Espanha, 2010) Aqui Huidizo (Diputacion de Huesca, Espanha, 2010) (Fucares Gallery, Madrid, Espanha, 2010) (Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2009) (Monmouth University, Nova Jersey, USA, 2009) (Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2008) (Black and White Gallery, Nova York. 2008) (Center for Art and Design, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, Nova York, 2007) The Middles of the End (DCKT Contemporary, Nova York, NY, 2007) (Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria, 2007) The Middle of the End (ACA Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA. 2006) (Fúcares Gallery, Madrid, Espanha, 2006) (Beginning’s End, DCKT Contemporary, Nova York, NY, 2005) Left Behind (Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Espanha, 2005) Thinking About That Place, Espacio Uno, (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Espanha, 2004) Thinking About That Place, (DCKT Contemporary, Nova York, NY, 2004) (Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Espanha, 2003) (Fúcares Gallery, Madrid, Espanha, 2002) (Roger Smith Gallery, Nova York, NY, 2001) (Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica, 2000) Special Project (Long Island City, Nova York, 1999) Project Room (Stefan Stux Gallery, Nova York, NY, 1999) (Queens Museum of Art, Bulova Center, Queens, NY, 1999) (Diario Levante, Valencia, Espanha, 1994) (Mácula Gallery, Alicante, Espanha, 1990) (Estampa Gallery, Madrid, Espanha, 1998)

Exposições colectivas (selecção) | Group shows (selection) Picture/Thing (Curated by Sasha Rudensky and Jeffrey Schiff, Wesleyan University, CT. USA. 2015) "Object 'Hood" (curated by Gelah Penn and Inna Babaeva, Lesley Heller Gallery, Nova York, 2015)

Human Landscape (Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2014) Foto Bienal - Pirelli Collection (Museum Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brasil, 2014) Picture/Thing (Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, CT. USA, 2014) Foto Bienal MASP, (Museo De Arte Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2013) Helsinki Photography Biennial (Finland, 2012) The World According To (Black and White Gallery, Nova York, 2012) 5 (Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2012) (Nuartlink Gallery, Westport, CT, 2011) What Surrounds Me (Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2010) Jans and Retro, Anthology Film Archival, (curated by Jana Leo. Nova York, 2010) Building Rooms (Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa, Portugal, 2009) Nuevas Historias. A New View of Spanish Photography” (Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Suecia, 2009) Out of Their Comfort Zone, (Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2009) Transforming Photography, (Edward Cella Art +Architecture, Los Angeles CA, 2009) Visionary Drawing Building (online project by Max Goldfarb and Matt Bua, 2009) Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture, Chicago (Curated by Davide Quadrio, Museum of Contemporary Photography’, Chicago, 2009) The Interior: Contemporary Photographic View (Martin Weinstein Gallery. Minneapolis, 2008) Nuevas Historias (Kulturhuset, Estocolmo, 2008) I Centenario S. Allende (Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 2008) Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape (Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, Nova York, 2008) Capricious and Mercurial Systems (A + D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 2008) Stretching the Truth, (John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2008) La Construcción del Paisaje Contemporáneo, (Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Espanha, 2008) “2007: The year in Art” (S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2007) Adicted to paper (Galerie Lelong Zurich. Suiça, 2007) PHOTO+ (Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX, 2007) Expansiones Implosivas (Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Espanha, 2007) Facades (Thirtyseven degrees Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2007) Substance and Light: Ten Sculptors Use Cameras (Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, Nova York, 2006) Installed!, The Shore (Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ, 2006) Identidades Criticas (Universidad de Cordoba, Cordoba,

Herreriano, Valladolid, Espanha, 2006) 3rd Ward, (Brooklyn, NY, 2006) Gimme Shelter (10a Serpentine Drive, Shelter Island, NY, 2006) Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s - Fake Estates (organized by Cabinet Magazine, White Columns, Nova York, NY, 2005) The Gift: Building a Collection for the Queens Museum (Queens Museum of Art, Queens, Nova York, 2005) Off the Wall (Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, Nova York, NY 2005) Welcome 2 the Jungle (DCKT Contemporary, Nova York, NY, 2005) That Which is Built (Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005) Collapsing Matter (Morsel Gallery, Brooklyn, Nova York, 2005) Queens International 2004, (Queens Museum of Art, Queens, Nova York, 2004) Architecture Untethered, (Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2004) EAF04 (Socrates Sculpture Park, Nova York, NY, 2004) Domicile: A Sense of Place, (Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, 2004), In Practice (Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, 2004) Synapses (Florence Lynch Gallery, Nova York, NY, 2004) Temporary Spaces (Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Dinamarca, 2003), Not To Scale, (curated by E. Arratia, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, Nova York, 2003) Parklife (Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, Nova York, 2003), (Slingshot Project Gallery, Nova York, NY, 2003) S-Files (El Museo del Barrio, Nova York, NY, 2002) Magische Expeditionen, (Folkwang Museum, Essen,

Insights: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art”,(Whitney Museum at Champion, Stamford, CT, 2000) Amerika in Immigrant Hands, (Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Jamaica, Nova York, 1999) Roma '91, (Spanish Academy in Roma, Itália, 1991) Colecções privadas (selecção) | Selected public collections Museum of Modern Art, Nova York, NY, USA Whitney Museum of American Art, Nova York, NY, USA Queens Museum of Art, Queens, Nova York, USA Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, Nova York, USA Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota, USA Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD. USA MAR. Museu de Arte do Rio . Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Academia Española de Bellas Artes en Roma, Roma, Itália.Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona, Espanha Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Espanha . Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Espanha Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid, Espanha Coca-Cola Foundation, Espanha Diario Levante, Valencia, Espanha Diputación Provincial de Alicante, Espanha Fundació Pilar í Joan Miró, Palama de Mallorca, Espanha Universidad de Alicante, Espanha Instituto de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert, Espanha Instituto Valenciano de la Juventud, Valencia, Espanha Museo de Aracena, Huelva, Espanha Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Elx, Espanha Museo Municipal de Alcobendas, Espanha.

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