Jorge Palacios Sculpture

TRAVELING EXHIBITION OF THE SPANISH SCULPTOR JORGE PALACIOS

From this June can be visited in full the traveling exhibition of the Spanish sculptor Jorge Palacios "The dialogues of the curve" that will stay in the city of Toledo until August

Palacios also exhibits at the Canal Foundation in Madrid along with Warhol, Tinguely or Malevich

Toledo hosts the exhibition project of Jorge Palacios (Madrid, 1979) "The dialogues of the curve: urban sculptures in the streets of Toledo" conceived as a itinerary through different places representative of the city, including the environment of the Bisagra Gate, the Sun Gate, the Santa Cruz Museum or the Fuensalida Palace.

Palacios firmly believes that his work has to start a dialogue with its environment; in fact, for him it is fundamental that the sculptures have a sense, a fundament, a reason to be in a particular place and not another. Something which is at the origin of the line of site specific projects in which it has been working for years. He expects the pieces neither to disrupt nor to turn into huge totems imposing their presence, on the contrary, that they will function as elements interacting with others in space, like the landscape and the architecture.

In words of Anatxu Zabalbeascoa << There was a time when the paths of architecture and sculpture ran parallel towards abstraction. Palacios' work is neither conceptually nor physically dependent on architecture. However, it responds to it. The environment makes it speak. It questions it. Prevents it from shutting itself up. Breaks its secretiveness. Palacios' sculptures turn architecture into an active frame, instead of a passive container >> and continues << Palacios' sculptures too lead the interest to the space around them. Sometimes they enhance a place. Others they set an accent. They may get lost in a frame, but they retain their essence, just like the seed that does not stop existing because of having turned into a fruit >>

Looking his works in wood one thinks that Palacios must necessarily be in tune with Frank Lloyd Wright when he said that wood can be used intelligently only if one is able to understand it before, something that Palacios has been doing since more than ten years when he began to create his sculptures in wood for outdoor spaces.

Jorge Palacios's work can be seen also in the exhibition organized by the Swiss curator Klaus Littmann "Do It Yourself Art" that is taking place in the Canal Foundation in Madrid and which also features works by, among others, Andy Warhol, Jean Tinguely, Kazimir Malevich or Sol Lewitt and can be visited until 24 July.