DOMESTIC PROSTHESIS
16/03/2012.
By Esther Pizarro. Raquel Ponce Gallery [MAD] Spain 01/03 - 03/04/2012.
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
Esther Pizarro, Madrid 1967, presents in her exhibition DOMESTIC PROSTHESIS an investigation of the human trinomial of the urban, the prosthetic and the domestic. It is not about the contradiction or opposition of the classical public space (the city) versus the private space (house), but to make them coexist in a same prosthetic structured system, conscious of the definition of transition spaces, ambiguous unions, amputated or missing limbs, enhancing that plural experience, conjunctional and multiple that the contemporary man has. DOMESTIC PROSTHESIS aims to make an analysis of such deformities, generating a plastic response to the day-to-day elements which have been altered, not only by integration or symbiosis but also in the subtle symphony of the concepts, shapes and materials. The artifacts generated explore domestic archetypes from a house, home or collective living. The object as such is altered by sculptural prosthesis that replace the existing deformation and modifies its natural state, introducing the organic of the city, understood as a growing body that is deformed, compressed, amputated, folded and fractured on itself. The amputated or missing area acts as a new topography for the development of a created city whose urban morphology has been adapted to the three-dimensionality of the missing part.
Domestic Prothesis. Esther Pizarro. ® Raquel Ponce Gallery
Such prosthesis show the fragmentation, deformation and juxtaposition of our own society, the unfinished, the partial, the fragmented as means to create higher levels of integration, accumulation, reiteration, differentiation and disconnection as stages of the existing situation.
Venue.- Galería Raquel Ponce. C/Alameda, 5. 28014 Madrid.
Dates.- 01/March - 03/April/2012.
Esther Pizarro was born in Madrid, 1967. Faculty of Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1990. Doctor of Fine Arts in 1995 with his thesis "Subject to a space. Background and new proposals." She later continued her training in Los Angeles, the Academy of Spain in Rome and the College of Spain in Paris. Scholarship from different institutions are: Artistic Creation Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation of New York, Visual Arts Fellowship from the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid; Generation Scholarship 2000, Caja de Madrid, Grant Fine Arts Academy in Spain Rome Scholarship in Fine Arts and the College of Spain in Paris. Between 1996 and 1997, a U.S. resident with a grant from the Fulbright Commission and the Ministry of Education and Culture. She has received various prizes and consolation prizes and her work is in prominent collections.
In the last two decades, Esther Pizarro has investigated, through sculpture. Highlights her participation in World Expo Shanghai Exhibition with the intervention "light skin" in Expo Zaragoza with a sculptural installation on curved wall "Urban Fossils" and her collaboration with Nieto-Sobejano for the facade of the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses Mérida.
Since the mid-nineties, has exhibited individually and collectively in the Raquel Ponce Galler, Madrid; Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Canarias COAC, Museo Barjola, Gijón; Galería Antonio Prates, Lisboa, Portugal; Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Galería Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Galería Espacio Líquido, Gijón; Carmen de los Mártires, Diputación de Granada; etc.
www.estherpizarro.es
Act.>. 01/2013