RATIONALIST MODELSLandmarks shaping public space, surfaces limiting habitable areas, implemented following the precepts of rationalist architecture: straight lines, simplified volumes and flat colors. This models, inhabited sculptures resembling drafts for life-size proyects, put into question how often functionality fails to meet the actual needs of people whom originally intended to serve, forcing them to adapt to circumstances far from the designer's original forecasts. |
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Multipurpose Structure 1 2011 / 34 x 27 x 30 cm / Wood, modeling paste, lacquer |
Multipurpose Structure 2 2011 / 41 x 51 x 44 cm / Wood, modeling paste, fabric, lacquer |
Multipurpose Structure 3 2011 / 36 x 57 x 50 cm / Wood, modeling paste, fabric, lacquer |
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Habitable Module 1 2011 / 21 x 48 x 27 cm / Wood, modeling paste, lacquer |
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Habitable Module 2 2011 / 26 x 49 x 27 cm / Wood, modeling paste, fabric, lacquer |
Habitable Module 3 2011 / 30 x 34 x 36 cm / Wood, modeling paste, lacquer |
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DECORATIVE SCULPTURESThis imitations of fine porcelain figures taken as symbols of traditional bourgeois comfort, expose the unsolved tensions and inner contradictions concealed behind their pleasant appearance, which are also present in original ones, but in this case conciously incorporated in an incisive manner. |
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Indoctrination 2009 / 18 x 37 x 33 cm / Modeling paste, lacquer |
Overproduction 2009 / 19 x 21 x 20 cm / Modeling paste, lacquer |
Free Choice 2010 / 26 x 21 x 13 cm / Modeling paste, lacquer |
Victim 2011 / 35 x 18 x 15 cm / Modeling paste, lacquer |
Executioner 2011 / 33 x 14 x 11 cm / Modeling paste, lacquer |
Thinker 2010 / 32 x 30 x 17 cm / Modeling paste, lacquer |
Parasite 2010 / 20 x 41 x 14 cm / Modeling paste, lacquer |
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Elderly Master 2007 / 83 x 64 x 86 cm / Stuffed fabric |
Young Proletarian 2008 / 110 x 52 x 38 cm / Stuffed fabric, wood and iron wire |
Vermin 2007 / 28 x 68 x 29 cm / Stuffed fabric, wood and iron wire |