Isidro Blasco

Isidro Blasco


Isidro Blasco was born in Madrid in 1962. He lives and works in New York. He has shown his work extensively including solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary, New York, PS1 MOMA Museum, New York, Queens Museum, New York, ACA Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and Fúcares Gallery, Madrid. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Queens Museum of Art, New York; Chicago Institute of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miró; Palama de Mallorca, Spain; and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Elx, Spain.

Blasco’s work combines architecture, photography, and installation to recreate images of interior spaces and exteriors of buildings. His photo-sculptures are three-dimensional visual articulations of a particular place that provide broader insights into how we perceive ourselves in a man-made environment. Blasco is not interested in the formal practice of photography, but uses the photographic process to form the value, shape and density of the final three-dimensional sculpture. The photo sculptures represent Blasco’s personal and subjective perception of a particular environment. Blasco starts a piece by taking photographs while standing in a fixed location so that all of the images taken at a specific site are from one point of view. He then makes miniature architectural maquettes, before starting to work on the finished piece. Blasco laminates the photographs and then mounts the multiple views of rooms or edifices on complex wooden armatures. Beginning with a single angle in a room or from the street, Blasco constructs a new spatial experience from a series of altered perspectives, fragmenting the single viewpoint into a myriad of possibilities. Blasco’s work is very much influenced by Analytical Cubism. Like Picasso and Braque, Blasco uses fragmentation and presentation of objects in multiple points of view to provoke change in the viewer’s perception. The effect for the viewer can be surprising, disorienting, and intimate all at once, a kinesthetic re-experiencing of space through disjointed photographic mapping.

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