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  • Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario - Singular Papers
  • Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario - Singular Papers
  • Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario - Singular Papers
  • Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario - Singular Papers
  • Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario - Singular Papers
  • Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario - Singular Papers
  • Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario - Singular Papers
  • Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario - Singular Papers
  • Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario - Singular Papers
  • Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario - Singular Papers
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Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario

Macla, mamua, bismuto, vicario

Karlos Martínez B., Javier Arbizu

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Text: Rosa Lleó
Bilingual: Spanish / Basque
150 x 230 mm
Graphic design: Franziska
Limited edition: 300 copies
The project MACLA, MAMUA, BISMUTO, VICARIO, by Karlos Martinez B. (Bilbao, 1982) and Javier Arbizu (Estella, 1984) has been developed in two phases throughout 2018. The first one in the Casa Huarte in Madrid, by the architects Corrales and Molezún during the month of February and the second one in the Oteiza Museum, inaugurated on July. This publication includes a complete visual tour of the two interventions and is complemented by a text by Rosa Lleó.  
The starting point of this project is the idea of ​​"macla", associated with the series of works so named by Oteiza, originated by the merger or encounter of two or more volumes and activated by the relation of their parts. As of that moment, this intervention  proposes a particular way of associating the sculptural with the objectively, through subtle interventions that disrupt the own characteristics materials and objects, which generate a new repertoire of meanings that link him freely with the architectural space, the construction methods of Oteiza's work and the consideration of the sculptural as a process in permanent transformation.
The presence of bismuth, a mineral that crystallizes in geometric shapes and  concentric, is one of the threads of the proposals, which works on the idea of ​​the sutured body and the question of double as the essence of a sculpture "permanently unsatisfied",  as defined by Jorge Oteiza.
In the work of Martinez B. y Arbizu, the potential and latent is as significant as the real and manifest. The transformation of everyday objects through manipulations and adjustments, as well as subtle juxtapositions, provokes a gliding between functionality and the shape of objects and spaces. In this way, the artists intend to question the limit between bodies and space, the human and the non-human, and ultimately, between figure and ground.
Project developed in collaboration with Fundación Museo Jorge Oteiza.
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