30 wall, columns, slab
Martín Carrizo2011
Fundación Itaú Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Martín Carrizo's work aims to show in a metaphorical way the different phases of any "construction work". The preparation and foundation of the construction, that will later be covered and hidden, here become central as they are exposed through a patent sculptural materiality.
Moreover, he works in relation to the poetics of the matter as he elaborates his piece with basic construction materials (bricks, cement and wood). In this sense, we can highlight the hyperrealist feature of his piece, which is created in a similar way of a real building. It should be noted that working with small dimensions poetically enriches his construction, without following the standards of a scale model, where the synthesis and the simulation prevail. Carrizo's work is different from realism, like a real construction, though in miniature. First Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2011-2012. Source: Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2011-2012 Catalogue
- Title: 30 wall, columns, slab
- Creator: Martín Carrizo
- Date Created: 2011
- Date Published: 2012
- Physical Dimensions: 40 x 40 x 64 cm
- Original Language: Español
- Provenance: Itaú Visual Art Award Collection
- Type: sculpture
- Publisher: Itaú Foundation Argentina
- Medium: brickwork
- Bio: Martín Carrizo (1983) has watched and learned multiple handcrafts since his childhood. In 2003, he started working at a carpenter’s shop, where he stayed for four years. He started his artistic career in 2004, when he began studying Sculpture at the Arts Faculty of Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. In 2012, after having won the first Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award, he received a scholarship to participate in several workshops at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, dictated by Diego Bianchi, Eduardo Stupia, Inés Katzenstein and Graciela Speranza, among others. In 2012, he was awarded a mention of the National Sculpture Salon. The following year, at the first edition of Bienal de Arte Joven, he was selected to participate at the fourth edition of the URRA residency in Buenos Aires in 2014. In 2015, he participated in the Yungas project with Raúl Flores and the discussion workshops of Fondo Nacional de las Artes in Córdoba-Tucuman. In 2015, at the Bienal de Arte Joven de Buenos Aires, he was selected to participate in the HANGAR residency in Barcelona. His works focus our attention on the marginal aesthetics of the cities. His sculptures, though abstract, replicate through their materials the poor neighborhoods surrounding the Latin American cities. The scale creates the feeling of a project for those sculptures that then reveal as ironies when we think of them in dialogue with the models presented in the showrooms of the large real estate developments in the city. If liberal thinking faces projects as the complete, the neat, the ascetic and the public, the project in Carrizo’s work is presented as a space to play with reality. Those urban margins work as triggers for a playful thinking that abstracts from those structures and reveals their precarious materiality. Especially, a materiality that is inevitably shared with that of the large urban structures, which also turns his sculptures into some kind of a failure due to their unfinished look or their resemblance with contemporary ruin, uncovering the potential failures and scars of those materials.
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