Las Rozas Village wanted to give voice to a budding artist, and to do so they chose the work of Andrés Izquierdo: sculptural installations full of mystery.
The Belmonte gallery, room and canvas of the exhibition
The exhibition has been carried out as a UVNT x Las Rozas Village project in collaboration with the Belmonte Gallery. 10 artists participated in this project, of which the winner would take home a production aid scholarship. From among the candidates, a committee of experts made up of Evelyn Joyce, Rocío Pina, Sara Rubayo, Ianko López and Luis Galliussi selected the 29-year-old Izquierdo as the winner and protagonist of this exhibition.
Juan de Mairena said that “it does not prove anything against love that the beloved has never existed.” With this curious statement, the character that came from Machado’s pen reflects on the role that imagination plays in influencing memories. In this case, Mairena points out that this role becomes especially powerful in romantic love, where the mind can even make us fall in love with a concept that never existed.
Andrés Izquierdo reflects something similar in his first solo exhibition, The kid with the mouth in the shape of a moon. Through his sculptural series, Izquierdo reviews the influence that the passage of time has on memories (how it clouds them, blurs them or even, as Machado pointed out, creates them from scratch) and explores the different universes of the night. Their tombs/ponds are full of references to the moon, its light and even the horror genre. “Everything that can scare small children,” he explains in conversation with AD.
This initiative, with which Las Rozas Village wants to highlight its commitment to art and talent, has been completed with the in situ creation of a sculptural piece that represents the journey of thoughts and obsessions within our mind.
The premiere of Andrés Izquierdo
“I feel like this is the beginning,” Izquierdo explained to us, “a before and after in my career.” Until now, the artist has collaborated in multiple exhibitions around the world, but this is his first solo exhibition.
However, it cannot be said that the relationship between Andrés Izquierdo and the art world is new. “I come from a house of architects. Architecture and design have always been close to me,” he says. During his adolescence, he encountered the work of giants, such as Bill Viola at the Guggenheim in Bilbao, or Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy; that ended up awakening their concern. After studying Industrial Design Engineering, he began to take advantage of the notions of materials and stability obtained at the School to explore the work of materials such as metal, wood or ceramics.
But, although the university period gave him notions to, in his words, “make things stand”, in artistic matters his alma mater is the cultural panorama of the capital. “My training has involved a lot of looking for friends who painted, who made sculptures, who created projects that interested me… we have created a nucleus in Madrid.” A group of friends and passionate companions committed to educating the eye and the hands.
The exhibition, which is now available at the Belmonte Gallery, offers an almost dreamlike series of sculptural compositions among which is the central piece, which was created live in the gallery itself. The piece creates a hybrid between what could be a domestic pond and a funerary monument.
