Summer 2005

Javier Muro Sanz de Galdeano (1968) Summer 2005 is a hammock that disconcerts the person who tries to rest in it. The seat, a symbol of summer, contains photographs with a dead rabbit in the background. The whole thing is a lifeless sculpture. It uses kitsch aesthetics and vivid colours, specifically the green of an operating theatre as, he explains, in the piece there is also a bit of illness. He tries to hide the cruelty that exists in the reality of the work by giving it a poetic air, approaching what he calls, “the elegant aesthetic of the morbid”. The sculpture of Javier Muro is like a bridge that the artist extends to the individual and the world around him; his work is based on realist-style photographs subsequently edited on a computer. 33rd Julio Antonio Sculpture Award, 2006 Art Biennial