Since his beginning as a sculptor, Magán has considered tempered glass to be the support and medium of his work. His academic studies on glass and its effects began in 2002 and culminated in 2008, after he passed through the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid, with a course at the Royal Glass Factory of La Granja (Segovia ).
Paradoxically, after more than two years of residence in a city as dimly lit as London, Magán’s work has become even more open to the effect of light. For this exhibition, some works made in the United Kingdom and others executed in the artist’s Madrid studio were selected, who works in the form of series that investigate light, color and space as a place to be delimited by form.
In all the series presented in the exhibition, although more obviously in the so-called exempted and relief, the color planes created by the glass are read in a double way. The most immediate reading is that of the limpid presence of the perfectly cut ceramic material; the second, which interests the artist more if possible (“I actually believe that light is the protagonist of my work”), is the gaze that causes the effect that light generates on the color plane. The light not only projects the blurred silhouette of the glass plate, but also the innate imperfections of a material that at first glance has seemed flawless. This duality of a solid element, encompassing and with a pure and perfect aspect (which links with the assumptions of minimal), compared to the ethereal, diffuse at its ends and at the same time loaded with accidents from something that is just the opposite (that we evokes the glass works of Josef Albers from the 1920s), they greatly interest Magán, since they make us reflect on the modifications of light in space.
In addition to the latest glass creations, a video series was exhibited in the gallery in which, thanks to the combination of the dynamic image of projection and the static of glass, Magán insists on the one hand on looking at color as accident and on the other to the form and its limits.
David Magán has been represented by Galería Cayón since 2010.
