Los Afijos by Juan López in Matadero Madrid
07/11/2017.
Abierto x Obras [MAD] Spain
metalocus, ÁNGEL BLANCO
metalocus, ÁNGEL BLANCO
Matadero Madrid presents Los Afijos (affixes), a site specific intervention that Juan López (Cantabria, 1979) made for the Abierto x Obras programme (Open for Works), that takes place in the former cold storage room of the Matadero in Legazpi. The artist's proposal sets a sculptural intervention on the architecture as a form of resistance against the establishment.
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos. Juan López. Abierto x Obras. Image courtesy of MATADERO MADRID
Los Afijos (affixes), are linguistic sequences which precede, succeed or are insert into a word to alter its meaning. This intervention, made specifically for the Abierto x Obras programme (Open for Works) of Matadero Madrid, works with the relation between writing and architecture, sign and meaning, sculpture and collage.
In a hiper-conected world, filled with signs created by an intellectual and/or social elite, Juan López plays with the possibility of giving birth to new meanings, new spaces and other sensitive realms through the creation of renewed signs that compose different spaces. Thus, new meaning is given to speech and to architecture which in turn changes the way we relate with each other in this space.
The architecture as a way of resistance against the established in a new intervention in Open x Works, the old Matadero Madrid.
In a hiper-conected world, filled with signs created by an intellectual and/or social elite, Juan López plays with the possibility of giving birth to new meanings, new spaces and other sensitive realms through the creation of renewed signs that compose different spaces. Thus, new meaning is given to speech and to architecture which in turn changes the way we relate with each other in this space.
From his early works of urban intervention, the work of Juan López aims at revealing all the ways in which we can perceive a place as a hypothesis for other social relationships outside the mandatory impositions of power. In his work, he uses metaphors to break and recompose the links between these three elements: city, subjectivity and power.
Juan López has shown his work in numerous art galleries, art centres, fairs and national and international museums such as La Casa Encendida, MUSAC, Centro de Arte Laboral, Fundación Joan Miró, La Panera, O.K. Centrum Tokyo Wonder Site or Den Frie. He has also been awarded with several prizes and scholarships such as Hegnspl-Award Byens Hegn, Generaciones 2013, Premio ABC de Arte, Beca Fundación Marcelino Botín or Muestra de Arte INJUVE.
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Dates
Until 08 January 2018
Tuesday to Friday, 4 pm to 9 pm Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 11 am to 9 pm.
Free Entrance
Venue
Paseo de la Chopera, 14. 28045 Madrid, Spain
