(Madrid, ES, 1993) Andrés Izquierdo´s practice relies on the psychoanalytical and allegorical to stimulate an exploration of childhood, grief and the restoring qualities of space and object.
Working across media —including mobile sculptures, furniture making, figurative ceramics, felt pen drawings, or architectural installations— his work fosters encounters such as between anarchic and structured, ground and sky, biology and theology, or vanish and arise.
Being interested in the representation of that which is and at the same time it is not, Izquierdo weaves physical presence: landscape, cosmology and phenomena; with conscious contemplation: intrusive thoughts, reveries, sentiments, and other body stimuli.
Through vibrant, fluid, luminous, dark or pareidolic matter Izquierdo generates scenarios of a dreamed or recalled quality. In them coexist both decomposing flowers and portraits of adolescence, humans that transform into snails, representations of moons and suns in gold leaf cardboard or in wax waterfalls, as well as interior spaces painted with an airbrush reproducing the effect of filtered light through the eyelids.
Some of his recent exhibitions and awards include: Material CDMX, (Galería Belmonte, CDMX, 2023), Praxis (Fluent, Santander, 2023), Circuitos XXXIII Premio de artes plásticas, Sala de Arte Joven (Madrid, 2022) We belong to each other, curated by Chus Martínez, Carlier Gebauer (Berlin, 2022) The kid with the mouth in the shape of a Moon, Galería Belmonte (Madrid, 2022), Arco Lisboa, Galería Belmonte (Lisbon, 2022), Sociedad Concreta, curated by Fernández Pello, Galería The Goma, (Madrid 2022).
