2015.06.04
2015.07.30
Opening
Studio
The present exhibition, Cosa y tú, brings together a group of free-standing sculptures constructed from the intersection of iron sheets and the superimposition of modular cement blocks, interspersed with magazines or covered with clothes. There is an interest in the production of a physical resonance between the object and its observer, referring to bodily postures and their axes of projection. From the fragmentary, allusion is made to the articulations and folds, suspension and gravitation of a living body. In a formal impulse that is simultaneously constructive and iconoclastic, it seeks to interrupt the way in which we read or perceive known forms, in order to involve us with them through their physical and material presence.
June Crespo's artistic practice is characterised by an experimental use of image reproduction and its exploitation in the field of graphic arts and sculptural installation. She approaches sculpture from a broad perspective, producing objects that are often situated on the margins of assemblage and collage. In a procedure halfway between Object trouvé and the logic of the bricoleur described by Levi Strauss, June Crespo's works emerge from an affective and associative gesture on materials previously collected or manufactured without a defined purpose. The elements she surrounds herself with are activated by a combinatory method of encounters and passing arrangements. This is where the specificity of the materials is subjected to new relationships and various forms of estrangement or appropriation.
The present exhibition, Cosa y tú, brings together a group of free-standing sculptures constructed from the intersection of iron sheets and the superimposition of modular cement blocks, interspersed with magazines or covered with clothes. There is an interest in the production of a physical resonance between the object and its observer, referring to bodily postures and their axes of projection. From the fragmentary, allusion is made to the articulations and folds, suspension and gravitation of a living body. In a formal impulse that is simultaneously constructive and iconoclastic, it seeks to interrupt the way in which we read or perceive known forms, in order to involve us with them through their physical and material presence.
June Crespo's artistic practice is characterised by an experimental use of image reproduction and its exploitation in the field of graphic arts and sculptural installation. She approaches sculpture from a broad perspective, producing objects that are often situated on the margins of assemblage and collage. In a procedure halfway between Object trouvé and the logic of the bricoleur described by Levi Strauss, June Crespo's works emerge from an affective and associative gesture on materials previously collected or manufactured without a defined purpose. The elements she surrounds herself with are activated by a combinatory method of encounters and passing arrangements. This is where the specificity of the materials is subjected to new relationships and various forms of estrangement or appropriation.