Entre la retícula y la vida is an outdoor sculpture exhibition in the gardens of the Museo Lazaro Galdiano, organised in collaboration with Arte Madrid on the occasion of the Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend. It also takes place within the framework of the XXX Cumbre Iberoamericana, which will meet to strengthen regional cooperation, innovation and sustainable development.
In this sense, the exhibition brings together thirteen Ibero-American artists and offers a journey through the tensions, dialogues and frictions between systems of order and the organic experience of contemporary existence. The works gathered explore how geometry, structure and repetition, symbolically represented by the grid (retícula), coexist with that which escapes control: the body, time, memory, chance and the constant transformation of the living.
Associated with rationality, progress and abstraction, since the historical avant-gardes the grid became a universal language capable of ordering space and reducing the complexity of the world to legible systems.
However, in the face of this will to control, the impulses of the vital emerge: the imperfect, the changing and the sensitive. Contemporaneity has precisely questioned that aspiration to stability, revealing the cracks in every apparently closed structure.
The grid structure can also be understood as an invisible functional "skeleton" that is far from alien to nature itself, but is clearly visible in living organisms, textures of natural fibres, the new genetics of the biosphere or in social relations.
The sculptural pieces that make up this exhibition move through that intermediate territory where norm and deviation become a field of experimentation rather than a limit. In some cases, the grid appears as support, container or visual architecture; in others, it is fragmented, distorted or invaded by organic elements that alter its initial logic.
Text: Begoña Torres González, curator of the exhibition.
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