"Deconstrucción Natural" is an exhibition by the artist Isidro Blasco, curated by Isabel Tejeda, which opened on December 28 at Casa Bardin in Alicante, home of the Juan Gil-Albert Alicante Institute of Culture.

Throughout his career, the artist has focused his attention and interest on built environments, both interior and exterior, of buildings in different cities around the world. However, for this project, he has departed from his usual approach and explored new areas of interest, turning his gaze toward the natural environment, the unbuilt: the mountains.

Isidro Blasco has been fascinated by the natural landscape of the Alicante and northern Murcia region since childhood, drawn to the beauty of the mountains, their visual power created by their spectacular three-dimensionality, and their sharp, well-defined outlines.

"The built environments, both interior and exterior, of buildings have been the focus of my attention and interest. Most of these works have focused on the different cities around the world that I have been able to visit, and only very rarely have I explored the environment that goes beyond these urban spaces."

Isidro Blasco.

"Deconstrucción Natural" exhibition by Isidro Blasco. Photograph by Isidro Blasco.

"Deconstrucción Natural" exhibition by Isidro Blasco. Photograph by Isidro Blasco.

The volumes generated by the geology of these mountains create striking chiaroscuro effects that serve as the basis for the work presented in Deconstrucción Natural, where the artist produces evocative and sincere three-dimensional representations of the landscape using mixed media.

"The natural landscape of the Alicante and northern Murcia region has fascinated me since I was a child. I am particularly drawn to these mountains for their beauty and visual impact. They undoubtedly possess a spectacular three-dimensionality; their profiles are often sharp and well-defined. The volumes that geology has created in these mountains are impressive and produce striking chiaroscuro effects from which I can draw inspiration for this work."

Isidro Blasco.

More information

Label
Artist
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Curator
Text

Isabel Tejeda.

+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Dates
Text

December 28, 2025 to February 5, 2026.

+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Location
Text

Casa Bardin, c/San Fernando 44, Alicante, Spain.

+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Photography
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.

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.

Read more
Published on: December 14, 2025
Cite:
metalocus, SARA GENT, ELVIRA PARÍS FERNÁNDEZ
""Deconstrucción Natural" exhibition by Isidro Blasco" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/deconstruccion-natural-exhibition-isidro-blasco> ISSN 1139-6415
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...