Marco Ávalos
NEOCONSTRUCTIONS Abstract Land Scapes
UNAM San Antonio
600 Hemisfair Plaza Way
San Antonio Tx 78205
On view now through February 20. - March 27
Neoconstructions, Abstract Landscapes, by Marco Ávalos explores the realtionships between architecture an urban landscape with our memories of the past, experiences of the present and speculations about future; addressing a critical reflexion about the spaces we live, how we interact with them and how these spaces define who we are.
MARCO ÁVALOS STATEMENT
Marco Ávalos has a strong and formal education in graphic design, illustration and visual arts. He has focused mainly on painting and print media. His work is developed from the basic elements of the form such as the point, the line and the plane in an abstract way, explores the three-dimensionality for its representation in two dimentional support using light, shadow, the naturalness of color and its contrasts in physical volumes as an essential resource in your work.
The subject he develops in his artwork is related to architecture and urban landscapes; conceptually addresses a critical reflection about the intimaste spaces we live and the common spaces we share with others. These spaces, depending on our experiences, contract or expand, marking a line of reflection about our place in them and how they spatially define our own personality. Marco works on the temporality of these spaces based on the memory of the past, the experience of the present and speculation about the future. The construction of his paints is based on mostly recycled materials, such as cardboard, wood, fabrics and metals; the finishes surfaces of the work are painted with different types of enamels and polyurethanes applied with industrial tools. His proposal is located in the same line of neoconcrete art, his most important influences are in the work of artists such as Malevich, El Lissitzki, Lyubov Popova, Carlos Cruz Diez and Zilia Sánchez; where there are similarities researching the representation of space.