Faults, breaks, cracks, folds, expansions… From stratified landscapes to damaged stones, from rocky invasions to luminous tears, Mareo Rodriguez’s imaginary topographies seem to open up earlier than us the bowels of the earth, this subterranean world populated by caverns and gaps, revealing the immensity of the abyss…
Enjoying with monumentality and the distinction of scales, but in addition with the illusion of motion by means of protuberant and proliferating forms (reminiscent of these invasive rocks seeming to fall from the sky, to spread on the walls or to impede the openings), the artist appears less to hunt to provoke a sensation of crushing, of shaking, than to deliver to mild the telluric pressure contained in the hypogeous world. All this power unfold because the origins in the stratifications and the fragmentations, the extensions and the scissions, of this buried landscape formed by the point.
“My work explores the facility of topography and natural territory, conceived as a dwelling mantle energetically in constant movement […] I am enthusiastic about matter as a condensation of light and its strategy of transformations and enlargement of power over time,” explains the Barcelona-based artist.
Matter, power, mild, time, area: these are the 5 elementary parts (gathered beneath the acronym M.E.L.T.S) of the analysis elaborated by Mareo Rodriguez in his monumental installations, but in addition his paintings, just like black holes, and his sculptures, all in twists and refractions. “Matter is condensed mild,” (sic). As proof, certainly one of his wall sculptures, consisting of the superposition of a paving stone of sunshine and a block of black stone invaded by the luminous halo that got here to twist up in it…
Gold or copper cloaks, pleated metallic meshes, golden or coppered stones, cracks and fissures… most of his works are conceived to be receptacles of sunshine and to make it merge with matter. Reworking mild into matter: this is his “great work,” and it isn't in contrast to that of the alchemists of the Center Ages seeking the Thinker’s Stone – supposedly endowed with the facility of transmutation…
True mise en abyme of the horror vacui, this unique worry of vacancy, intrinsic to human nature and to the world of the dwelling, the immersive installations of Mareo Rodriguez invite us to a spatial experimentation of the passage from the shadow to the sunshine, from the recognized to the unknown… by the trail of the faults – torn rocks, half-open antrums, luminous cracks… An enormous theater of the tears where the abysses of the depths be a part of those of the skies (the infinite abysses).
https://www.mareorodriguez.com
Stéphanie Dulout
L’article MAREO RODRIGUEZ : Graphic abyss est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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