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30/6/2006

Carlos Schwartz

Galeria Fucares, Madrid

Light, sign and symbol.

Fu'cares Gallery presents at its space in Almagro an individual exhibition by Carlos Schwartz (La Laguna, 1966).

The show features a set of recent works under the title Behind the Light: four installations, objects and sketches of the works shown. Furniture and items found in flea markets in Berlin or Madrid, or even in the streets of these cities, are assembled with lighted elements such as fluorescent lights, neon signs or coloured electric bulbs. Schwartz goes beyond the traditional idea of object trouve'. His intention is to establish relationships between the light falling on these objects, many of them already discarded, and the space where they are placed - worlds now different from those envisaged when they were created and desired.

These “objects of desire" imply a strong and energetic step in the path opened by Carlos Schwartz with the exhibition Works of light, held in 2005 at Fu'cares Gallery’s project room in Madrid. In both, the artist’s concern is to give meaning to concepts like the archetypes of light, daily-life, landscape and permanence/impermanence. The title Behind the Light also refers to the artist’s inquiry into the idea of “light" as a symbol and a sign. As such, in the context of this show, it is related with the work through language, space and our daily environs.

Seeing the symbol is to empty one’s mind so that the symbol can shine through in all its splendour. Signs are the means by which reality takes on a certain appearance. Thus, if we are on a continuous and firm plane, symbols break that plane and take us into a new realm. This is precisely what attracts us to the works: they establish a relationship with elements from the daily life, the domestic, the trivial, which is not only conceptual, but almost physical as well, in the sense that vision feels challenged.

Why explore into what we can all so clearly see? Everyday words lit and written in urban space signs; electric bulbs as if they were vegetal fruits; fluorescent lights as vectors of force, and a set of drawings as a catalogue of interior decorating lamps, among others. Together, both the installations and the objects are complemented by a powerful light vibration.

Almagro Fucares Gallery
Conde de Xiquena, 12 1mo Izq 28004 Madrid (Spain)
Tuesday - Friday: 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 21:00
Saturday: 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:30 to 21:00

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