5 colors silk screen print – 100 numbered and signed copies, 24” x 36” (61 x 91,4 cm). Produced by IDEO Cambridge and printed by End Hymns in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The design follows the same system used for the painting on the IDEO building at number 80 on Prospect street in Cambridge, USA: www.eltono.com/murals/ideo
Casal Solleric
Solo show Funambuls
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
April 2018
Palma is full of architectural and decorative elements as interesting as they are peculiar. The artist select some of them to reproduce the space they generate cutting the three-dimensional negative space of these geometric fragments. They are shapes that one could easily touch and perfectly recognize with his finger. Wooden mouldings that the artist makes us locate and fit in while we discover others. A different look on the city aesthetic.
Composition on building
Lopes Family’s house
Comunidade Norte 1, São Vicente, Cape Verde, 11/2017
Composition on building
IDEO Cambridge
80 Prospect Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
11/2017
Production: Beyond walls www.beyond-walls.org
Generative painting
La Courrouze Water Tower
Rennes, France 10/2017
Production: Teenage Kicks Biennial
SET Espai d’Art
Solo show Anomalías
Valencia, Spain
September 15th – November 11th 2017
This project started with a map of Valencia. I looked for itineraries with the most circular shape possible. I found six. I created a wooden sculpture from each itinerary. Subsequently, I walked each sculpture in the city on the very path it represents. Each walk varied from 1 to 6 km. I presented the sculptures as they were at the end of each walk.
SET Espai d’Art
Plaza Miracle del mocadoret 4, Valencia, Spain
September 15th – November 11th 2017
I’m always looking for new systems to make the city part of my creative process. Each experiment I do is a series and, to be able to compare the results, I carry out these experiments very rigorously and methodically. In the process, I often find myself in strange situations, off-key from the reality that surrounds me. In the city’s routine, my actions can be perceived like anomalies. The generated artworks act as testimonies of the experience lived between the artist and the city.
This project started with a map of Valencia. I looked for itineraries with the most circular shape possible. I found six. I created a wooden sculpture from each itinerary. Subsequently, I walked each sculpture in the city on the very path it represents. Each walk varied from 1 to 6 km. I presented the sculptures as they were at the end of each walk.
I looked for rocks in the streets around the gallery. I found 14. For each one, I noted down the exact place where it was found. I brought the rocks to the studio and I painted them with 3 coats of 3 different colors. Then, I brought each one of them back to the place where I found it and from this point, I kicked it through the street until it entered by the gallery door.
Running away from the comfort and the security of the studio, I drew pictures while sitting inside the urban buses of the city of Valencia. I drew the same composition 12 times during 12 journeys on different bus lines. Every imperfection on the drawings are the result of the annoyance and discomfort produced by the movement of the trip. I not only had no absolute control over my drawings but I also had no control on where the bus was bringing me; at the end of each drawing, when I raised my head, most of the time I was totally lost.
SET Espai d’Art
Solo show Anomalías
Valencia, Spain
September 15th – November 11th 2017
Running away from the comfort and the security of the studio, I drew pictures while sitting inside the urban buses of the city of Valencia. I drew the same composition 12 times during 12 journeys on different bus lines. Every imperfection on the drawings are the result of the annoyance and discomfort produced by the movement of the trip. I not only had no absolute control over my drawings but I also had no control on where the bus was bringing me; at the end of each drawing, when I raised my head, most of the time I was totally lost.
