Juan Garaizabal is a plastic artist, sculptor and engraver. He is internationally known for his monumental public sculptures: The Urban Memories, recover significant elements of cities, filling gaps of extraordinary memories and generating debate on urbanism, history, and the role of contemporary art.
His work stands out not only for his personal discourse, but also for his own techniques, worked by himself in his workshops in Madrid, Berlin and Miami, of manipulation of the forged, carpentry, electricity, plasticity and masonry. He uses a combination of materials and introduces elements such as wood, concrete, glass, brick, motors, LED lights… to cause the most interactive sensation possible of the contrast of time, the avant-garde and history.
Garaizabal has been fortunate that people and institutions from different cities around the world bet on his vision to rescue with sculpture extraordinary stories that are very specific to each place. A pagoda in Seoul, a palace in the Tuileries in Paris, balconies in Havana, a temple in Palmyra or a church in Berlin… behind each missing element there are simply human dreams. According to Garaizabal. In addition to the recovery of said energies, he always works with a strong environmental awareness of efficiency and recovery in the use of materials (Artnet Magazine, Nov. 2019).
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05/02/2019 - 13/04/2019
The exhibition brings together sculptural and photographic work that accounts for certain elements shared by the artists, such as the play of light and shadow in Pablo’s sculptures, the characters or subjects in José Manuel’s photographs, and the filling in the sculptural structures of Juan. Thus, they prioritize the light that radiates from their works, giving rise to a poetics of memory.
03/11/2021 - 15/02/2022
Proyecto H presents two bodies of sculptural work by Spanish artists Juan Garaizabal and Xavier Mascaró. Juan Garaizabal presents the series “Lost Street Lamps”; a series of street lamps rescued from the last century. Xavier Mascaró presents the series of guardians in steel: “Keepers”