The Spanish artist Isidro Blasco invites the public to discover his concept of home in the exceptional intervention No Place Like Home at the Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Center, Madrid. The exhibition questions our way of looking at places, as well as the mediated way we often have of seeing things, fragmenting and rebuilding, recycling materials and sensations.

The exhibition is based on an unstable-looking wooden-frame house with images that narrate a personal experience after the confinement in times of pandemics. The polyhedral construction works as a monumental sculpture and is a criticism of a kind of social demolition of the emotional.
The No Place Like Home intervention by Isidro Blasco reminds us that a home is a safe place, a refuge and outer space can be perceived as dangerous, infected. The artist gathers images of the interiors of his house in New York, where he has not been able to pass the confinement. For this reason, the images are reconfigured as if they were a memory or a dream or almost a nightmare.
 
"The dislike, the fear, the crisis, the death, all of us have suffered great discomfort.
One tries to survive and not let themselves be defeated. I’ve spent a long time without anything to do, and I found myself looking at the corners of my house in a state of lurking depression. Before making a work of art or a body of work, you need to have experiences, walk the walk, and fill up your backpack."
Isidro Blasco

Through the architectural accumulation of images and unstable support structure, Blasco questions himself on issues such as utopian disorder, natural architecture, anarchic potentiality, and the projection of thought and criticism.
 
"Isidro Blasco has always been concerned with his environment in order to establish emotional connections with the places he inhabits, experiences which he reflects in his work. Blasco reflects on our way of looking and contextualizing places, as well as the portrayed way that we often have to see things, fragmenting and rebuilding, recycling materials and sensations that help us to recreate the architectural space, which is reinterpreted and dependent on the subjective perception of the observer.

On this occasion he makes a construction of a house with an unstable appearance, with a wooden structure, mostly recycled and with some painted parts. It consists of an architecture that works as a monumental structure that pushes the spectator to walk through and around the polyhedric layout. Blasco goes deep into the babelic crevice which declines in a utopian disorder, as if it was a natural architecture, with a potential anarchy, but conceptually concentrated in his projection of thought and the criticism of sorts of a social demolition of the emotional."
David Barro
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From April 20th to June 20th, 2021.
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Conde Duque Cultural Centre. Conde Duque Street 11, Madrid.
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Isidro Blasco was born in Madrid in 1962. He moved to New York in 1996, where he lived until 2020. He currently maintains studios in both Madrid and New York. He is an artist whose work brings together photography, architecture, and sculpture with the aim of creating spaces that reproduce everyday life. His projects have been described as reminiscent of Cubist and Constructivist solutions.

He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and is a PhD candidate at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. He was selected as a sculptor by the Spanish Academy in Rome in 1990–1991. He received Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants in 1998 and 2010, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts in 2000.

Isidro Blasco has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in Shanghai, Sydney, and Santiago de Chile. He has held solo exhibitions at P.S.1/MoMA in New York and the Queens Museum of Art. His work has also been shown at the Whitney Museum, Champion Branch, in New York; the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2004; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San José, Costa Rica; El Museo del Barrio in New York; the Sculpture Center in Queens, NY; and the Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York. He participated in the 2012 Photography Biennial in Helsinki, Finland.

In 2022, he also exhibited at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, with a large-scale installation as part of the exhibition “Hyperreal. The Art of Trompe-l’oeil,” and he received a commission for the Manhattan Children's Museum in New York.

His work is represented by:

Ponce+Robles, Madrid.
SIM Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil.
Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Carlos Carvalho Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal.
Pearl Lam Gallery, Shanghai, China.

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Published on: May 21, 2021
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metalocus, ANNA CLARA BARROS
"Intervention at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre. No Place Like Home by Isidro Blasco" METALOCUS. Accessed
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