Andrés has embarked on a research project through which he intends to continue his exploration of the spirit and the landscape, understanding the island as a psychological and emotional catalyst, in contrast to the latent anxiety and aggressiveness of the great cosmopolis.
Ses12naus works to support contemporary art and encourage creative experimentation. Established with the mission to provide an enabling environment for artists to develop their practices in dialogue with Ibiza’s unique context, the foundation seeks to enrich the island’s cultural scene. Its commitment to supporting long-term research projects and pushing artistic boundaries fits perfectly with Andrés Izquierdo’s vision, making it an ideal platform to continue to broaden his creative horizons.
Izquierdo’s first residency at Ses12naus marked a turning point in his relationship with Ibiza. The artist investigated and interacted with sacred geological formations, communities, rites, symbolisms, myths and everything that has made this island a space of pilgrimage, catharsis and psychological growth.
For his second stay on the island, the artist has embarked on a research project through which he intends to continue his exploration of the spirit and the landscape, understanding the island as a psychological and emotional catalyst, in contrast to the latent anxiety and aggressiveness of the great cosmopolis.
OPEN STUDIO
Andrés Izquierdo (Madrid 1993) presents the result of his second residency on Ibiza, a new sculptural ensemble produced mostly in earthy and argillaceous compounds, using this materiality to speak of the substrate as a transitional place and as a life generator of a cyclical nature.
The sculptures produced by Izquierdo interact with walls and pedestals in the same way that organisms do with the substrate: emerging or being ejected to the surface. Alluding to the earth as an entity that begins by spitting us out and ends up swallowing us, Izquierdo works with shells, flowers or archaeological artifacts such as the two reproductions of Punic coins acquired in the store of the Puig Des Molins Ethnographic Museum.
This body of work displays a space of transformation and transit: a wall that wants to be a moon, the metamorphosis of a person into a snail, the passage from day to night, or the hybrid nature of Icarus.
This portrayal of that which transforms constitutes the intention of infusing the sculptures with an energy or a potentiality.
In addition to the use of the lyrical as a strategy to imprint energy in the objects, Izquierdo employs attributes related to infinite and expansion found in figures such as the spiral and the vortex or in the stellated space that we can find represented on the internal surface of the eye, in the disc of the withered daisy or over Icarus’ body.
