Encuentro Vertical
Encuentro Vertical, 2021
Calacatta altissimo marble, Zimbabwe black granite, Carrara marble, cardoso stone, bronze and corten steel
225 x 150 x 80 cm
Walking near my Madrid studio, crossing a building under construction, I found one of the iron structures used as bases to place metal tubes for signage and boundary fences that characterize these spaces The openings and suggestive shapes of these bases, with strange, surreal, and almost extraterrestrial geometries, led me to imagine vertical forms, which connect with the idea of a vertical city, of very tall buildings, also of monolithic and totemic forms of a distant and futuristic culture As a result, the paintings and sculptures that have emerged from this exercise of urban associations and encounters, delve into the idea of architecture and the traditional objet trouvé tradicional. They also experiment in the musical tradition of the theme with variations.
View of the work at Galleria Continua San Gimignano, 2021 Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio