"Architects build, artists destroyed, "said the American artist Dan Graham and theoretical. Augustine is known for being an artist who explores the confluences and interference between sculpture and architecture, which in turn agree in thinking about space and the possibility of creating new realities through construction. Although as operator searches the internal space architecture beyond the mere geometry built. To this end, drawings and notes made previously on his book, which implies poussiana how he conceives the picture as a picture within the project.
In Memoriam is a process in itself, an investigation, which in turn generates a kind of visual and textual narrative, through their images, as it explains both the course of the play as their domestic context. Augustine in his travels throughout the province of Castellón aims to discover spaces without a name, hiding places and abandoned. No interventions carried out in buildings directly as did Gordon Matta-Clark, but thanks the photographs which deconstructs the space, move it, then rebuild it cuts through, allowing you to realize that ideas about space as a dialectic personal intuition, ie single and designated spaces in the same way that creates complexity. Augustine sets in this series is not busy and uninhabited places, where past and present coexist, destruction and construction. For this first makes photographs that are taken from the same point of view as a succession of frames, and then through the assembly of them, abandoned places reconstructed from photographic fragments. You could say that the architecture would function as a frame and the sculpture is the result of emptying. Discover, well, dualities and contrasts perfectly reflected in his photographic montages (vertical / horizontal, interior / exterior, empty / full) summarizing aesthetic experience in terms of years of research and philosophical positions on space.
In his photographs the light breaks transforming an abandoned building in a temple "That light invites us to enter, welcomes us and embraces us with warmth of home, since every house is not a case lived inert always inhabited space transcends geometrical space. Its obligation to re-think the livability of contemporary space transgress as an intruder, forcing look beyond mere functionality, opening new perspectives and drawing attention to forgotten corners that escape the logic of capitalism under which we live. Somehow, establishing an emotional relationship with the environment that surrounds us about an unknown reality virtually erased from our memory; stresses, thus, our capacity to act on it. Both
eight sculptures like twenty photographs that make up the exhibition, reveal layers of information, stories, construction of living ... The space acts as a memory device, extracted from each person their unconscious thoughts and gives them body. We need to open the house so you can remember, we must move to put freedom back into memories. That does Augustine reconstructing the image, creating gaps that cause movement and open windows and doors to wander memory. Transform
space interpreting, assimilating and offering new perspectives. In memorian pays tribute to all those areas marginalized by our society, because each building that disappears or vanishes becomes a ritual way of life, knowledge and muted light off the locations in which lived memory and transited the passing of time.
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