Right Constructions. The photographic compositions and installations address the notion of construction as a creative principle and, according to Eskinja, "a crucial point of departure to understand, interpret and create worlds".
After Fugaz (2008) and Nowheristan (2010), Igor Eškinja will open on May 25th, 2012 his third personal exhibition at ADN
Galería, Right Constructions.
The photographic compositions and installations displayed in Right Constructions transversally address the notion of
construction as a creative principle and, according to Eškinja, “a crucial point of departure to understand, interpret and create
worlds.” Through his characteristic economy of means, Eškinja temporarily leaves apart his illusionistic games to reflect on what
is at stake in constructing, planning, and being constructed. Relocated in the context of a complex work, which continuously
questions th relation between reality and representation, th iissue of construction opens new paths t b explored and
investigated.
The “constructed” is generally seen as something existing and tangible, determined by spatial and temporal limits, in opposition
with the project, which condition is transitory and unstable by essence. The property of the constructed may also operate as a
differentiating state, allowing to separate real and imaginary worlds. Nevertheless, the artist suggests in Right Constructions that
what has materiality and follows concrete rules of manufacturing and setting not always turns to be authentic, nor even
necessary. To check this hypothesis and put the constructed/planned dialectics to the test, Eškinja introduces various typologies
of construction and materiality. The photographs and instalations conceived for the exhibition play with the planes, sizes and
perspectives, trying out the plasticity of surfaces and the architectonic properties of materials like paper, light and the clasical
separating strips used in airports and other public spaces which conditioned the constructed space as well.
A paper overhead projector seems to diffuse colored surfaces into space, materializing the reflection of the projected light. The
stylized plane of an airport surges from a reel of paper unrolling to the floor, recalling the place of origin of every construction,
i.e. the urbanist or architect’s studio, and also the simple support from the constructed before the introduction of new
technologies: paper. Another installation consists in a lamp that projects its halo on the surface where two electric adapters are
connected to one another, materializing electric energy in circulation around a metaphoric globe. The installation functions as a
closed circuit: without electricity, there is no light, and as a matter of fact, no light to give visibility to the electric system, while
suggesting an allegoric vision of the world as conductive material. Without artifices, Eškinja exhibits the device thanks to which
the work comes into life and remains visible.
Right constructions actually introduces us to a recurrent element in the work of Eškinja: the discontinuous relations operating
between the immaterial and the material, the represented and the perceived, the illusion and the perceptive trickery, the
planned and the constructed The exhibition space is considered here as a stage for a play of complementary effects and
contradictions. It also displays an aesthetic approach to the phenomenon of spatial construction in a bidirectional sense: from
the projected, flat image, creating trompe l’oeil effects, to a tridimensional occupation of the space by elementary materials.
Image: Untitled, 2011. Lambda print on dibond, 60 x 90 cm
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Opening on Friday May 25 th, 2012
Galeria ADN
Enric Granados 49 - Barcelona
Opening hours to the public :
Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m to 2 p.m and from 4 to 8 p.m.
Saturday from 11 a.m to 2 p.m and from 5 p.m to 8.30 p.m.