Isidro Blasco, a Madrid artist, based in New York, with an architectural background that is no stranger to his work, presents for three months, Espacio emergente / Emerging Space a project of sculptural intervention designed specifically for the ballroom of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum.

The work, which is exhibited on the first floor of the museum from October 4 until January 26, 2020, presents a space in motion through a construction made with flat elements, fragments, which have been mounted on racks and covered in turn by fragments of photographs taken in different parts of the Museum.
Isidro Blasco not only achieves, with the realization of Espacio emergente, the connection of different spaces of the Museum, but also intervenes in the way in which visitors approach the Collection, generating a meeting place among the public that visits classic art of museum, and the contemporary art.

Blasco's piece displays a fragmented vision of museum spaces, over a complex world of vertical supports, characteristic of Blasco's work, which this time seems to be the frozen reflection of the typical movement of the space in which they are installed, the former Museum dance hall.

The interaction with the space and the personal fragmented vision of Blasco showing a new space made with photographs, taken many of them at close range and printed in color, manages to create more than a space, a "place", a piece where visitors interact with the space, activating time, memory and movement.
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Museo Lázaro Galdiano (salón de baile). Calle Serrano 122, 28006 Madrid. Spain
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From 04/10/2019 to 26/01/2020
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Fernando Quesada
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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: November 17, 2019
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metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
"Sculptural performance by Isidro Blasco at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum" METALOCUS. Accessed
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