Cerca · Ivan Rickenmann

This project features a series of charcoal drawings that reference the concept of fence as an element of protection and definition of a terroir. Fences made of sticks, vegetable enclosures, fragments of soil, and other constructions made out of natural elements, are part of this structures that are used in most territories to delimit land. And that, at the same time, are turned into containers of roots and identity.

Through skill and a careful technique, the artist plays with the three-dimensionality of drawing, giving it certain sculptural and substantial character. Drawing then becomes matter and the fences come to life.

Quimera · Álvaro Correa

Quimera, has as its starting point, a material and formal exploration of wood; in this case, the artist subtracts fragments of different woods figment of the tree felling of native forests. With a sharp eye on the shape, scale, texture and color of these wooden bits, the artist proposes to reveal the attributes and the plastic and poetic possibilities of these elements.

Through interventions and assemblies, Correa achieves articulating in each of his sculptures the organic and geometric, perhaps as a way of translating the actions of men towards nature. But beyond this, the artist seems to encounter, in the fragment and ruin, the vitality, but furthermore the instability and the strangeness needed so that something may be upright or built. It is as if in order for something to exist, even if only as a possibility, it must emerge from waste.

That is, how from that idea of possibility viewed as an alternative, but also as fiction, where the power of his sculptural and graphic proposal lies.