Alvaro Urbano Teatro Impossible ChertLüdde
Alvaro Urbano Teatro Impossible ChertLüdde at ARCOmadrid what is going to happen is not the future, but what we are going to do Curated Sector by Chus Martínez, Elise Lammer y Rosa Lleó 21st 25th February 2018 For ARCOmadrid 2018, ChertLüdde exhibits a presentation by Alvaro Urbano. Alvaro Urbano will present a scenario of architecture that will move through the fairground and function as the backdrop for the talks program. The inspiration for the different architectural elements is taken from Archizoom s Teatro Impossibile (Impossible Theatre) from 1960, an unrealized utopian sketch for an unconventional way to physically experience and watch theatre, one that invites great participation from the public. Urbano s presentation is part of a larger body of works of animated architectural structures, ones that come to life, communicate with people, and disrupt their surrounding space. Alvaro Urbano Teatro Impossible, 2017 Installation sketch polystyrene, paper, cardboard, foam, paint and wood Elements: One wall, one column, two chairs, two speaker cones, one carpet Dimensions variable
Teatro Impossibile, 1966 Architectural sketches by ARCHIZOOM ASSOCIATI
FESTIVAL OF FUTURE NOWS 2nd Edition Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin 14 17 September 2017 Untitled (door) is part of a series of site-specific installations that camouflage themselves in the given space. A closed door inviting narrative potentials, it addresses relationships, dialogues, and conflicts between reality and fiction. Untitled (door), 2017 sculpture and performance Extruded polystyrene foam, glue, foam, paint and paper each door: 275 84 50 cm
Fonctions et Fictions Performance Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels 17 September 2016 Urbano s Fonctions et Fictions animated the Villa Empain, shifting perspectives on the built environment through replicating architectural elements of the Villa. The artist destabilised the functionality and spacetime relations of the architectural program to create a fictional landscape and portal to the imaginative. Alvaro Urbano Fonctions et Fictions, 2016 Extruded polystyrene foam, glue, foam and paper Dimensions variable
More than Real Performance night Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 2015 Extruded polystyrene, cardboard, paper, glue and foam Each column: 400 48 48 cm Extruded polystyrene, cardboard, paper, glue and foam Each column: 400 48 48 cm
Festival of Future Nows 1st Edition Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 30 October 2 November 2014 Mies van der Rohe was the master of using the fewest possible elements to define a space. The result was the maximum effect with the minimum number of spatial concepts, creating domestic arenas and interior circulation. The animated structures presented by this work are copies of representative elements of the Neue Nationalgalerie. The architectural details, free from their function, will wander around the building as if they could finally feel and move. Skin and Bones narrates a fictional present in which the architect can no longer control his own design. The performance took place throughout the festival, without a specific schedule. Alvaro Urbano Skin & Bones Polystyrene, paper, cardboard, foam, wood and paint Dimensions variable
ALVARO URBANO (b. 1983, Madrid, Spain) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Architecture School in Madrid and completed his studies at the Institut für Raumexperimente (Professor Olafur Eliasson) Universität der Künste in Berlin. In 2014 Urbano received the Villa Romana Fellowship. He attended the The Artists and Architects-in-Residence at MAK, Los Angeles, 2016/2017. Recent solo projects and exhibitions include: Hibernation, with Linda Kuhn, Curated by Julia Heunemann and Nadia Pilchowski, Bärenzwinger, Berlin, 2018; Altbau, ChertLüdde, Berlin, 2017-18; Almost Midnight, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, 2017; Assemble, performance night, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2017; I, Mole Antonelliana, Turin, in collaboration with National Cinema Museum of Turin, 2016; Functions and Fictions, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, 2016; Dead Men Tell No Tales, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2016; More than Real, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2015; The Ghost and the Host, Pavillon Social Kunstverein, Lucca, 2014; Utopias are for Birds, Chert, Berlin, 2012. Recent group exhibitions include: Playground, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2018; (upcoming); Welcome to the Jungle, Curated by Jasmina Merz and Anna Lena Seiseryae, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2018, (upcoming); Alpina Huus, Geneva and Lausanne, 2017; Festival of Future Nows II, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2017; Notes on our equilibrium, CAB, Brussels, 2017; An ear, severe, listens, ChertLüdde, Berlin, 2017; That Time, Cycle Music and Art Festival, Iceland; Deep Inside, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, 2016; Art and Nature: Walking with Senses, Merano, 2016; SUPER SUPERSTUDIO, PAC, Padiglione d Arte Contemporanea, Milan, 2015; ALPINA HUUS, Schinkel Pavillon, 2015; What s Love Gotta Do With It, S.A.L.T.S., Switzerland, 2015; Trouble in Paradise, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2015; Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2014.