ISIDRO BLASCO
Isidro Blasco, latests work
Preview: September 16 2015 7:00pm
From September 16 to November 6 2015
Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea
R. Joly Braga Santos, Lote F – R/c 1600-123 Lisboa
Tel: 217261831 Fax: 217261310
E-mail: carloscarvalho-ac@ carloscarvalho-ac.com
Website: www. carloscarvalho-ac.com
Carlos Carvalho Contemporary Art gallery is pleased to announce
Isidro Blasco’s first solo show in Portugal.
The artist holds 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 can’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 threedimensional objects to offer new perspectives to the photographed
object.
In his process of work, Isidro Blasco develops a three-dimensional
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.
Em anexo:
Lisbon Tower, 2015
C-Print, wood, Acid free Museum Board
Medidas variáveis
Brooklyn Hana, 2015
C-Print, wood, Acid free Museum Board
50 x 50 x 10 cm
Brooklyn Hana, 2015
C-Print, wood, Acid free Museum Board
50 x 50 x 10 cm (detail)
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ISIDRO BLASCO
(Madrid, Spain Espanha, 1962)
Vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque. Works and lives in New York, USA. Prémio
Pollock Krasner Foundation em 1998 e 2010 e Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
em Visual Arts in 2000.
Exposições individuais (selecção) | Solo exhibitions (selection)
2015
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY.
Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal.
“Site-specific” Moneo-Brock Studio. Madrid, Spain.
2014
SIM Galeria, Curitiba, Brazil.
“Deconstructed Landscapes” Museu Metropolitano de Arte, MuMa.
Curitiba, Brazil.
2013
“Sydney Interiors” Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2012
Wave Hill, The Bronx, New York.
2011
Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York.
Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Black and White Gallery, New York.
2008
Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China.
Black and White Gallery, New York.
2007
The Middles of the End, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY.
Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria.
2004
Thinking About That Place, Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte
Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
Thinking About That Place, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY.
2003
Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain.
1999
“Special Project” P.S. 1, Sept-Nov. 99, Long Island City, NY.
Queens Museum of Art, Bulova Center, Queens, NY.
Exposições colectivas (selecção) | Group shows (selection)
2015
"Translated Cities" at Shirin Gallery New York January 2015. Curated
by Natalia Kakasawa
“Picture/Thing” Wesleyan University, CT. USA. Curated by Sasha
Rudensky and Jeffrey Schiff. January 2015.
"OBJECT 'HOOD" curated by Gelah Penn and Inna Babaeva at Lesley Heller
Gallery New York, July 2015
2014
‘Human Landscape’ at Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Foto Bienal - Pirelli Collection (Museum Oscar Niemeyer) Curitiba,
Brazil.
2013
Foto Bienal MASP (Museo De Arte Sao Paulo) 2013, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2012
Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012, Finland.
2010
“Weaving in and out” At No Longer Empty, curated by Jodie di Napoli.
Harlem, New York.
2009
“Building Rooms” Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal.
“Nuevas Historias. A New View of Spanish Photography” Kulturhuset,
Stockholm, Suecia.
“Out of Their Comfort Zone” Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
‘Transforming Photography”, Edward Cella Art+Architecture, Los Angeles
CA.
‘Visionary Drawing Building’, online project by Max Goldfarb and Matt
Bua. www.drawingbuilding.org
‘Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary
Material Culture’, ‘Chicago. Museum of Contemporary Photography’.
Curated by Davide Quadrio.
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Colecções públicas (selecção) | Selected public collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA.
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, USA.
Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA.
Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, 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.
Museum Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil.
Academia Española de Bellas Artes en Roma, Rome, Italy.
Para mais informações e/ou imagens por favor contactar Patrícia Barreira:
[email protected] +351 217 261 831 For more press information
please contact Patrícia Barreira: [email protected]
+351 217 261 831