BadYear
BadYear

Adrián Balseca

BadYear, 202130 x 327 x 10cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGallery
natural rubber casts, steelMadragoa
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This minimalist artwork features a row of beige-colored cardboard shapes arranged in a linear composition against a plain white background. The geometric forms, which resemble abstract animal shapes, are cut out and displayed in a simple, understated manner. The artist's use of mundane materials and repetitive, rhythmic layout suggests a focus on the essential qualities of shape, texture, and spatial relationships. The artwork's sparse yet evocative nature invites the viewer to contemplate the interplay of form, material, and negative space. The artist's intention may be to provoke a meditative response or challenge conventional notions of what constitutes art. ...

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Adrián Balseca
Artist
Adrián Balseca
B.1989, Ecuadorian

Adrián Balseca’s work aims to activate strategies of representation, narration, and interaction in order to highlight cultural specificities of a particular place. It explores the relationship and tensions between industrial and craft practices, revealing a fascination with the historic processes, and the configuration of materials involved in the production of manufactured goods. His work ranges from small interventions to large scale "site specific" actions or video documentations and elaborates on ideas of emerging economies, environment and nature, power, and social memory. ...

Adrián Balseca: Artworks
BadYear
Adrián BalsecaBadYear, 2021Price on Request
The Skin of Labour
Adrián BalsecaThe Skin of Labour, 2016Price on Request
Madragoa
Gallery
Madragoa
Lisbon

MADRAGOA is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2016 in the homonymous neighborhood of Lisbon’s historical center. Since its beginning, the gallery has been an early supporter of a number of international young artists such as Adrián Balseca, Rodrigo Hernández, Renato Leotta, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Joanna Piotrowska, and Yuli Yamagata, whose first productions and exhibition have been produced and promoted by the gallery and often presented for the first time in Portugal. Moreover, Madragoa launched the careers of young Portuguese artists such as Sara Chang Yan, Luís Lázaro Matos, Gonçalo Preto, and Jaime Welsh, giving them visibility on the international scene. From its peripheral location in Europe, MADRAGOA’s project focuses on how to set a deep conversation with the city and its extraordinary potential, setting a dialogue between global artistic practices and local craftsmanship and ideas. The gallery always created experiences of research and production for its artists locally and promotes its program also through the participation in a number of international art fairs, gallery exchanges, and exhibition projects. MADRAGOA is currently recognized as one of the most innovative realities in the Portuguese art scene, while it succeeded to obtain visibility internationally throughout its years of its activity. At the moment, the gallery actively represents artists from Portugal, Italy, Ecuador, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Brazil and South Africa. ...