VOLÚMENES DE LA LÍNEA
April 11, 2024 -
May 16, 2024
La Balsa Arte Medellín | Sala de Proyectos
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Panoramic. Volúmenes de la línea, Rodrigo Spinel

Spinel’s background as an architect has a clear influence on his approach to drawing; that is, through a technical, schematic, and modular process of representation. The structures and facades portrayed in these drawings arise from the artist's interest in a process known in construction as bricklaying, which refers to the form, structure, or constructive display of a wall.

The starting point of this series of drawings is the line, or rather, the repetition of lines, which, like walls, build shapes and volumes. It is in the process, in that act of repetition and therefore of time, where the line acquires its volumetric quality, because, as the artist himself expresses: "the value of the line does not reside as an independent unit but as part of a whole". That is precisely how these drawings become walls built by lines.

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RODRIGO
SPINEL
Patience, discipline, effort, concentration, and perseverance are words that nurture Rodrigo Spinel's artistic practice. These are concepts and moral values that allude to hard work, and dedication, reflected in the artist's attraction to objects that exhibit intense labor of repetition, such as banknotes and stamps drawn line by line in their original die, or in the walls built by summing up hundreds of bricks laid one by one. The figure of the mason is a central referent in which Spinel recognizes these values, and using it as a simile between the effort of building a wall brick by brick,...

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Labalsaarte | 2023

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