EYES OF SEA  © 2007

This sculptural assembly is made up of four pieces which, in this case, work together but which can also act separately. It all depends on whether we are looking for an exact situation, as if it were an aerial reconnaissance, or whether we lose ourselves in the lines of a formal abstraction that is also suggestive.

Apilamiento Portuario works like a screen with three planes or wings. The iron manufacturing material of the shipyards, of the ships. A thick grey felt, which is piled up in different layers: its own weight gives it movement, it composes undulations as in a sea with calm waves, in which you can put your hand and wet it once you have lost your fear of the darkness of these waters. They are also sails that approach the coast, their refuge.

Apilamiento Portuario © 2007
Iron, felt, wire, steel cable
120,5 x 178 x 155 cm

Vientos del Mediterráneo resembles a navigational chart on which rulers, squares and charts have passed until they mark the authentic quadrants of a sea, of a coastline..... As Esther Pizarro does not leave no stone unturned - not only because here every line, every stroke, is sewn - the sea is dark, it acquires that abysmal tonality, and the land, lighter. We play not only with the dialectic of the materials but also with the certainty of treading on safe ground or of moving in stormy waters.

Rafael Sierra
Curator

Vientos del Mediterráneo © 2007
Iron, felt, thread, eyelets
100 x 40 x 7 cm (unit)

EXHIBITED IN ::

Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno. “Ojos de mar”, Comisario: Rafael Sierra. Valencia. 18/05/2007 a 08/07/2007

ASSOCIATED CATALOGUE ::

AAVV (2007). Catálogo exposición: Ojos de mar. Textos: Consuelo Ciscar, Laura Revuelta, Frances Reynolds, Rafael Sierra. Edita: IVAM. Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno. Extensión: 152 páginas. Idioma: castellano-valenciano-inglés. Patrocina: Fundación Arte Viva. ISBN:978-84-482-4647-1-4, DL: V-2362-2007.