Stupid Borders is a set of actions on the landscape, works and documentation that invites us to reflect upon the relationships between people, territory and Earth, a planet that transcends our age but over which we have a strange and intense sense of ownership.
Limit, border and property are the three pillars on which all actions, documents and pieces that make up the exhibition are based. A series of works by Ruben Martin de Lucas, component of Boa Mistura, to be exhibited at APgallery until the 27th of December.
 
"Someday we will understand the fundamental freedom, that of movement, and we'll feel each wall as shame and each border as absurd as a line in the desert"
Ruben Martin de Lucas

Here are three videos showing the making of the three minimal republics for which the scheme is simple and clear: 1. Appropriate 100m²; 2. Draw a border; 3. inhabit. The result has been three curious situations that show us the absurdity of limits and boundaries.

Venue.- APGallery. Calle de la Fuente, 5. Martín Muñoz de Ayllón, Riaza, Segovia.
Dates.- 10th of October - 27th of December 2015. Hour Schedule.- Saturday and Sunday from 11.00h to 19h. From Monday to Friday with previous appointment.

 
Minimal Republic # 1: a circle with a 5,64m radius with a groove dug and filled with plaster as a border.
 

Minimal Republic # 2: equilateral triangle with a 15,19m side, with assembled wood slats painted on white as limit.
 
Minimal Republic # 3: 10x10m square with a string tied to metal sticks defining the square of crushed rye grass.
 
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Rubén Martin de Lucas, who graduated in Civil Engineering in 2002 from the UPM, decided a year later not to exercise engineering to devote himself entirely to art. He is a member of the collective Boa Mistura, a multidisciplinary group of artists with roots in street art that has appeared among others in the Spanish Pavilion at the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture, at the South of Panama Biennial 2013, La Habana Biennial 2015, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia National Museum, Casa Encendida and developed projects in Brazil, Panama, Algeria, United States, Norway, Mexico and other countries.

Since 2003 Martin Lucas displays his individual work regularly in galleries, fairs and exhibitions. His work focuses on the landscape and the way people relate to it.

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Published on: October 21, 2015
Cite: "Stupid Borders by Rubén Martín de Lucas" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/stupid-borders-ruben-martin-de-lucas> ISSN 1139-6415
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