Santiago Villanueva, Very Fragile. Allusions Series,variable size, polystyrene, fiberglass, and lacquer, 2014
The exhibition "Fragile" presents a set of five installations by the renowned Spanish sculptor Santiago Villanueva (Madrid, 1964) carried out between 2012 and 2015, summarising the variation in his recent creation.
Working with moulding, casting and finishing techniques, Villanueva confers an organic or mineral imagery to his objects, which is especially evident in the spherical or tubular shapes of his choice, such as antennae, tears or stalactites, but above all it is the transitional forms, those which are in a frozen moment of change into a new composition, that are the most abundant and striking in the work of the artist.
Appealing to the sensory aspects of the artist's works, as well as the reflection on sculpture as the medium that they convey, the curator Mónica Álvarez Careaga suggests that we contemplate it in the most naïve way possible, and, at the same time, the loftiest, invoking metaphysical polarities such as absence and presence, stability and change, matter and imagination.
Santiago Villanueva, Eight Evidence of Desire, The Slow Motion Band Series, 100 x 70 x 70 cm x8 ,polystyrene, fiberglass, and lacquer, 2012
Santiago Villanueva, Blue, Eight Evidence of Desire, 100 x 70 x 70 cm,polystyrene, fiberglass, and lacquer, 2012
Santiago Villanueva, Yellow, Eight Evidence of Desire, 100 x 70 x 70 cm,polystyrene, fiberglass, and lacquer 2012
Santiago Villanueva, Tri-logía, Allusions Series,3 pieces, 185x50x0.5cm each one,polyurethane, painting and lacquer, 2014
About the exhibition
Curator: Mónica álvarez Careaga
Opening time: 3pm, April 2, 2015
Duration: 2015.04.02 -- 2015.04.18
Location: 2nd floor exhibition hall of Building No.3, Today Art Museum
Courtesy of the artist and Today Art Museum, for further information please visit www.todayartmuseum.com.
