Stefano Bonacci

The work of the Italian artist Stefano Bonacci coexists with the time and its passage, it doesn’t settle in the era in which it was created but lives in a timeless dimension. There are four essential aspects over which the artistic production of Stefano gravitates: nature, the human body, light and geometry. His work questions practically everything he is interested in: ideas, emotions, myths, archetypes, chance, nature, the human being, the reason. He understands that disorder raised a priori, that chaos that surround us, and does so through the establishment of some rules, sometimes logical, sometimes aesthetic.

“Many of my works have been created in relation to the perspective and history of the exhibition site, in an attempt to create the perfect balance between work and space”.

Lecuona y Hernández

The work of this tandem of artists is characterized by an attempt to break the limits, to question them, to check what happens when certain barriers are overtaken, as long as they try to generate images for abstracts concepts which, even from the distance of times, operate and define our day-to-day. They create their works from any discipline and plastic media, either installation, performance, video, sculpture or painting. Their work go through a media hybridization, dealing with the painting problems from the sculpture and vice versa, always having a predilection for installations and site- specific interventions.

“We are constantly reviewing and revisiting our own work, and that is why we are so interested in site specific, because the work in a specific context always challenges you and manifests as a continuous and alive process”.

Mar Solís

She has based her career in the research of balance and space. The curves and the play of light and shadows are present in all her sculptures. The drawing is an essential tool for this artist. The same line delimiting the paper becomes both space sculptural material. Broken lines together form transparent spaces and, in the case of her work, in passable areas. Although she has worked metal, and paper as well, wood has been throughout hercareer more than a medium for sculpture; It has become meaning and inspiration. Living matter, delicate, breathes and moves, which has its different shades of skin, different hardnesses. With it, the challenge of raising, erecting the parts supported at the end of those very thin legs; in order to play with the fragility of balance, with instability, with the fragility of the material. Her public work is exposed in places like Madrid, Lapland and South Korea, and among her solo exhibitions are the one in the IVAM of Valencia or the Frost Art Museum in Miami.

"When I photograph or draw I am doing sculpture; you could say that is in an interpretive way, a manner of looking “

Rafael Canogar

Rafael Canogar is one of Spain's most recognized both nationally and internationally abstract painters. Perhaps the sculptures are one of his most unknown facets.

In the early eighties, his constant concern for reinventing his own painting led him to turn his gaze on the work of his predecessors artist that became his inspirations ever since. Thus arise several series of works that are themselves a revision of the first historical vanguards, paying special tribute to Julio Gonzalez, mostly for the period in which he is inevitably influenced by Pablo Picasso and where his works have a clear cubist character that definitely transforms his conception of sculpture.

This sculptural adventure blurs the boundaries between figuration and abstraction and creates a personal and distinctive abstract language. Many institutions that have exhibited his work such as the remarkable retrospective by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 2001.

"The new sculpture will not, as before, be mere decoration to step away and look. The new sculpture wants to stand in the way of man, be a fun experience ".