As a continuation of the recent exhibition at CAYÓN Menorca, our two spaces in Madrid are pleased to welcome the work of multifaceted artist Joel Shapiro.
The American artist’s project, in what is also his second exhibition in Spain since his solo show at IVAM in Valencia more than 30 years ago (1990-1), will be made up of some of his most recent sculptures, forming an installation that will occupy our two Madrid exhibition spaces.
The exhibition in Menorca offered the same experience on a massive scale with a series of imposing elements, almost three meters tall, hung at different heights in the 12-meter high room.
Since the seventies, Shapiro’s sculptural work uses and takes to the extreme some of the basic principles of sculpture, such as scale, to force the viewer’s vision, who is abstracted from the position of one who enjoys a tiny, small or medium-sized work to become a participant in his most monumental installations, through a series of geometric elements of basic colors (yellow, orange, red and blue).
Thus, using a vocabulary of often geometric elements, his work, which often blurs the line between figuration and abstraction, explores the possibilities of form while attempting to invigorate the sense of space.
Exhibited works
