- Exhibition program
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- Artist
- Paula García-Masedo
- Dates
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- Place
- Espai 13
- Curated by
- Carolina Jiménez
Paula García-Masedo's exhibition is based on the manner in which Cézanne understood painting: as a way of actively relating to and allowing oneself to be carried away by nature.
The pieces in the gallery are displayed on an extensive structure at medium height that organises the exhibition space and invites us to create associations between shapes, stains and textures. At a sculptural level, the piece explores the relationship between form, force and matter through manual processes of compression and flattening that accentuate the inherent qualities of the materials used.
The work connects with a specific territory in the Lozoya Valley in the Guadarrama mountain range, an area historically associated with Spanish landscape painting and meadows, where crops and grazing lands traditionally alternated, striking a balance between human intervention and ecological sustainability. García-Masedo thus reminds us that talking about the countryside and landscape is also talking about social struggles, forms of exploitation and popular resistance that continue to resonate today despite often being overlooked due to the prevailing discourse.
The practice of Paula García-Masedo (Madrid, 1984) reorganises attention on the establishment of forms by observing through sculpture the relationship that exists between matter and external causes. García-Masedo's work develops through series of operations that give rise to specific situations of order and presence and contribute to the perception of genealogical relationships.
Her work has been shown at the CA2M (Madrid), Patio Herreriano (Valladolid), La Capella (Barcelona), TEA (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Madrid), La Casa Encendida (Madrid) and Fabra i Coats (Barcelona), among other spaces. She has curated exhibitions at CentroCentro (Madrid), Liga DF (Mexico City) and Monoambiente (Buenos Aires). She cofounded Pols (Valencia) and has had two books published by Caniche editorial.
