Isidro Blasco: Above and under L-Train
19/02/2016.
[NYC] USA 26.02 > 10.04.2016
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Blasco's new large-scale architectural environment is an impressive structure that merges conceptual and physical spaces, actively encouraging viewers to become adventurous participants. Above and Under L-Train’ invites the audience to ponder the complexities of systems hidden beneath the surface. It strives to capture the disorienting appearance of integration of visceral forces that may not be easily perceivable and create an atmosphere of uncertainty.
Artist Statement by Isidro Blasco
Process
Isidro Blasco combines architecture, photography, and installation to explore physical and psychological terrains. Blasco uses digital images and building materials to create large- and small-scale architectural environments and three-dimensional reconstructions of neighborhoods, producing snapshots of cityscapes that play with perception. Beginning with a viewpoint of a building, or an interior or exterior space, Blasco takes photographs and pieces together images into photo-sculptures, reminiscent of Cubist collages with their multitudes of angles. Blasco’s slight distortions of perspective produce scenes that can appear both recognizable and unfamiliar.
“I connect my experience as an outsider who walks the streets and interacts with the city with my more intimate feelings about closed and private spaces,” he says.
Isidro Blasco was born in Madrid in 1962 and moved to New York in 1996. He is an artist who combines his work in photography, architecture and sculpture to create spaces that reproduce daily life. It has been said about him that their projects are reminiscent of Cubist and Constructivist solutions. He has a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts from Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain and he is a candidate for a Ph.D. at the Architectural School of Madrid. He was selected for the Spanish Academy in Rome in 1991, received Pollock Krasner Foundation Grants in 1998 and 2010 and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in Visual Arts in 2000.
Isidro Blasco has shown extensively in the US and Europe as well as in Shanghai, Sydney and Santiago de Chile. He has had solo exhibitions in New York at P.S.1, Queens, NY and at the Queens Museum of Art. Exhibitions also include the Whitney Museum, Champion Branch, NYC; the Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica; El Museo del Barrio, NYC; Sculpture Center, Queens, NY; and at the Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, NYC. He participated at the upcoming Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012 in Finland.
http://www.isidroblasco.com