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 and moved to New York in 1996. He is an artist who combines his work in photography, architecture and sculpture to create spaces that reproduce daily life. It has been said about him that their projects are reminiscent of Cubist and Constructivist solutions. He has a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts from Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain and he is a candidate for a Ph.D. at the Architectural School of Madrid.  He was selected for the Spanish Academy in Rome in 1991, received Pollock Krasner Foundation Grants in 1998 and 2010 and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in Visual Arts in 2000.

Isidro Blasco has shown extensively in the US and Europe as well as in Shanghai, Sydney and Santiago de Chile. He has had solo exhibitions in New York at P.S.1, Queens, NY and at the Queens Museum of Art. Exhibitions also include the Whitney Museum, Champion Branch, NYC; the Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica; El Museo del Barrio, NYC;  Sculpture Center, Queens, NY; and at the Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, NYC. He participated at the upcoming Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012 in Finland.

http://www.isidroblasco.com

 

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