Albert Speer, Hitler's architect commissioned to most large projects in the Third Reich, was in the habit draw the future ruins of their own buildings. Speer argued, with good reason, that the real potency in architecture lay in their future ruin, and to justify the suggestion reminded that cause in us the monuments of the past, the remains of civilizations like Roman, Greek or the Egyptian.
Eva Ruiz Gallery opens exhibition "Essay on the ruin" of Luis Úrculo yesterday,September 20 until November 14, is an interesting proposal that speaks of the fall from power and the representative of monumental architecture through daily objects carried to the collapse. Symbols of eternal and stable Europe, a celebration of failure as aesthetic fact.
Luis Úrculo works in the "shadow" of the architecture and its collapse as an act of the fall to Europe and its economy. Since the ruin, mark the beginning of the project, where the interest is not in its original image, however is in the evolution, the collapse and the final state. Part of the ruin as a constructive fact.
The "Ensayo sobre la ruina" is the first individual exhibition by Luis Urculo in the Eva Ruiz Gallery. The sample was divided into two rooms, one with a video projected that gives the title to the exhibition through models where the structures and actions that generate a collapse are investigate. They are small recordings which imply a downward movement about the construction in continued degradation.The second room includes three series which address the concept of ruin through drawing, sculpture and installation on different media.
Venue.- Eva Ruiz Gallery. C/ Doctor Fourquet, 3 Madrid.
Date.- Since September 20 until November 14 in 2012
