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    Cement eclipses

    Cement eclypses.The human being becomes part of the urban furniture.

    Remembrances from nature
    Hackney, London
    2010

    Funeral for a concrete figure
    Hackney, London
    2010

    Forest Road
    Hackney, London
    2010

    River
    Hackney, London
    2010

    Playground
    London
    2010

    Climate change expedition
    Hackney, London
    2010

    Follow the leader
    Hackney, London
    2010

    Another public swimming pool
    Hackney, London
    2010

    Slowly sinking
    Hackney, London
    2010

    Lovers
    Hackney, London
    2010

    The Tenant
    Hackney, London
    2010

    Summer sponsored by BP
    Hackney, London
    2010

    Border
    Hackney, London
    2010

    Empty fridge
    Brussels
    2010

    Home
    Brussels
    2010

    Swine flu infected area
    Brussels
    2010

    Follow the leader
    Brussels
    2010

    The use of cement in the construction sector has become a fingerprint that reveals the human face of nature. In Spain, it’s used 54.2 million tons of cement in 2007. The construction boom devastated parts of the Spanish coast. Nature already has become what we see vaguely from one city to another. Urban space has become the product of the modern tension between man denatured and nature dehumanized as Rafael Argullol said.

    Cement eclipses is a research project of urban space that runs between the fields of sculpture and photography. The sculpture is used as a starting point and photography as a witness to the execution of installations for later viewing or exhibition. The small pieces (25 cm. Approx) are made in cement, of which copies are reproduced using silicone molds. These are small figures representing a kind of metamorphosis in which the man leaves his roles as citizens camouflaging themselves with the city and slowly becomes part of furniture. In this way confirms the voluntary isolation of human being with regard to nature, hidden among the sidewalks, streets, walls, etc., becoming the urban environment in their natural habitat.

    This project started in 2006 as a nomad project and continuous its process with embodiment in which the installation is mixed with urban street art. Cement eclipses was discovered in urban areas of several European cities including Berlin, London, Brussels, Liege, Barcelona, Vigo, etc.. Many of the photographs in this dossier have been taken in London between September 2008 and January 2009, where I currently reside.

    These installation have a high component ephemeral, and their degree of permanence in time depends on their luck in the urban jungle, any citizen can become an unwilling spectator, and in this transition, also in the new owner, or collector of piece.

    The figures represent a critical and ironic scenes of our daily routine: a purchase, a phone call, a long wait, our disengagement ecological, etc.. Perplexing images you are seeing the demolition and reconstruction of everything around us.

    You can download a dossier of this project clicking in the following picture:

    or (spanish)

    Cement eclipses es un proyecto de investigación del espacio urbano que discurre entre los campos de la escultura y la fotografía. La escultura es utilizada como punto de partida y la fotografía como un testimonio de la ejecución de las instalaciones para su posterior visualización o exposición. Las piezas son de pequeñas dimensiones (25 cm. aprox) realizadas en cemento y cuyas copias son reproducidas por medio de moldes de silicona. Estas pequeñas figuras son la representación de una especie de metamorfosis en la que el ser humano abandona su papel de ciudadano mimetizándose con la ciudad y en el que lentamente se convierte en parte de su mobiliario urbano. De esta manera confirma su aislamiento voluntario de la naturaleza, camuflándose entre las aceras, las calles, las paredes, etc, convirtiéndo ese entorno en su hábitat natural.

    Este proyecto fue comenzado en el año 2006 como un proyecto itinerante y en continuo proceso de realización en el que se mezcla la instalación urbana con el street art. Cement eclipses se ha realizado en espacios urbanos de diversas ciudades europeas como Berlín, Londres, Bruselas, Lieja, Barcelona, Vigo, etc. Gran parte de las fotografías de este dossier han sido tomadas en Londres entre Septiembre 2008 y Enero 2009, lugar en el que resido actualmente. Estas instalaciones tienen un alto componente efímero, y su mayor o menor perdurabilidad en el tiempo depende de su suerte en la jungla urbana, cualquier ciudadano puede convertirse en un espectador involuntario, y en ese tránsito, también en el nuevo dueño, o coleccionista, de una de las piezas.

    Las figuras representan de una forma crítica e irónica escenas de nuestra rutina diaria: una compra, una llamada telefónica, una larga espera, nuestro descompromiso ecológico, etc. Escenas que contemplan perplejas la demolición y la reconstrucción de todo lo que nos rodea.

    Recent articles:

    Streetartlondon (interview)
    Crackforyoureyes (interview)
    Mymodernmet (interview)
    Brooklynstreetart (interview)
    The Guardian (Interview/review)
    Arrested Motion (Review)

    Related links:

    Cement eclipses @ Anderlecht Thursday, 7 February 2013

    Cement Eclipses 2012 Friday, 14 December 2012

    Eclipses de cemento, Galería JM, Málaga Tuesday, 27 November 2012

    Prestige - solo show @HL-Projects, Brussels Monday, 26 November 2012

    Festival des Libertés, Bruxelles, Belgium Tuesday, 13 November 2012

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    Cement eclipses @ Anderlecht

    Anderlecht, Belgium. January 2013

    Cement Eclipses 2012

    A selection of images

    Eclipses de cemento, Galería JM, Málaga

    From November 23th, 2012 until January 26th, 2013

    Prestige - solo show @HL-Projects, Brussels

    From November 08, 2012 until January 09, 2013

    Festival des Libertés, Bruxelles, Belgium

    From 18th October to 27th October, 2012

    Sculpture Quadrennial Riga, Latvia

    From 5th October to 25th November, 2012

    BLK River Festival

    September 2012, Vienna, Austria

    /// MUU /// Muzej ulične umjetnosti

    September 2012, Zagreb, Croatia

    Solo show at Ras Gallery, Barcelona

    From April 13th to May 12th, 2012

    Waiting for climate change @Beaufort04

    From March 31st to September 30th, 2012

    Cement eclipses en Galicia

    January 2012, Pontevedra, GZ. Spain

    Cement eclipses @ Barcelona

    Octubre 2011, Barcelona, Spain

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