ALVARO URBANO - CHERTLÜDDE - CHERTLÜDDE
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
Alvaro Urbano
Teatro Impossible
ChertLüdde
Alvaro Urbano
Teatro Impossible
ChertLüdde at ARCOmadrid
what is going to happen is not “the future”, but what we are going to do
Curated Sector by Chus Martínez, Elise Lammer y Rosa Lleó
21st – 25th February 2018
For ARCOmadrid 2018, ChertLüdde exhibits a presentation by Alvaro Urbano.
Alvaro Urbano will present a scenario of architecture that will move through the fairground and function
as the backdrop for the talks program. The inspiration for the different architectural elements is taken from
Archizoom’s Teatro Impossibile (Impossible Theatre) from 1960, an unrealized utopian sketch for an
unconventional way to physically experience and watch theatre, one that invites great participation from the
public.
Urbano’s presentation is part of a larger body of works of animated architectural structures, ones that come to
life, communicate with people, and disrupt their surrounding space.
Alvaro Urbano
Teatro Impossible, 2017
Installation sketch
polystyrene, paper, cardboard, foam, paint and wood
Elements: One wall, one column, two chairs, two
speaker cones, one carpet
Dimensions variable
Teatro Impossibile, 1966 Architectural sketches by ARCHIZOOM ASSOCIATI
FESTIVAL OF FUTURE NOWS – 2nd Edition
Hamburger Bahnhof
Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
14 – 17 September 2017
Untitled (door) is part of a series of site-specific installations that camouflage themselves in the given space.
A closed door inviting narrative potentials, it addresses relationships, dialogues, and conflicts between reality
and fiction.
Untitled (door), 2017
sculpture and performance
Extruded polystyrene foam, glue,
foam, paint and paper
each door: 275 × 84 × 50 cm
Fonctions et Fictions
Performance
Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
17 September 2016
Urbano’s Fonctions et Fictions animated the Villa Empain, shifting perspectives on the built environment
through replicating architectural elements of the Villa. The artist destabilised the functionality and space-
time relations of the architectural program to create a fictional landscape and portal to the imaginative.
Alvaro Urbano
Fonctions et Fictions, 2016
Extruded polystyrene foam, glue,
foam and paper
Dimensions variable
More than Real
Performance night
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
2015
Extruded polystyrene, cardboard, paper, glue and foam Extruded polystyrene, cardboard, paper, glue and foam
Each column: 400 × 48 × 48 cm Each column: 400 × 48 × 48 cmFestival of Future Nows
1st Edition
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
30 October – 2 November 2014
Mies van der Rohe was the master of using the fewest possible elements to define a space. The result was
the maximum effect with the minimum number of spatial concepts, creating domestic arenas and interior
circulation.
The animated structures presented by this work are copies of representative elements of the Neue
Nationalgalerie. The architectural details, free from their function, will wander around the building as if
they could finally feel and move. Skin and Bones narrates a fictional present in which the architect can no
longer control his own design.
The performance took place throughout the festival, without a specific schedule.
Alvaro Urbano
Skin & Bones
Polystyrene, paper, cardboard,
foam, wood and paint
Dimensions variableALVARO URBANO (b. 1983, Madrid, Spain) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Architecture School in Madrid and completed his studies at the Institut für Raumexperimente (Professor Olafur Eliasson) Univer- sität der Künste in Berlin. In 2014 Urbano received the Villa Romana Fellowship. He attended the The Artists and Architects-in-Residence at MAK, Los Angeles, 2016/2017. Recent solo projects and exhibitions include: Hibernation, with Linda Kuhn, Curated by Julia Heunemann and Nadia Pilchowski, Bärenzwinger, Berlin, 2018; Altbau, ChertLüdde, Berlin, 2017-18; Almost Midnight, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, 2017; Assemble, performance night, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2017; I, Mole Antonelliana, Turin, in collaboration with National Cinema Museum of Turin, 2016; Functions and Fictions, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, 2016; Dead Men Tell No Tales, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2016; More than Real, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2015; The Ghost and the Host, Pavillon Social Kunstverein, Lucca, 2014; Utopias are for Birds, Chert, Berlin, 2012. Recent group exhibitions include: Playground, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2018; (upcoming); Welcome to the Jungle, Curated by Jasmina Merz and Anna Lena Seiseryae, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2018, (upcoming); Alpi- na Huus, Geneva and Lausanne, 2017; Festival of Future Nows II, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2017; Notes on our equilibrium, CAB, Brussels, 2017; An ear, severe, listens, ChertLüdde, Berlin, 2017; That Time, Cycle Music and Art Festival, Iceland; Deep Inside, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, 2016; Art and Nature: Walking with Senses, Merano, 2016; SUPER SUPERSTUDIO, PAC, Padiglione d’Arte Con- temporanea, Milan, 2015; ALPINA HUUS, Schinkel Pavillon, 2015; What’s Love Gotta Do With It, S.A.L.T.S., Switzerland, 2015; Trouble in Paradise, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2015; Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nation- algalerie, Berlin, 2014.
You can also read
