When I arrived at CCA Andratx it seemed like a fortress, surrounded by hills with trees and earth-charged air. The four Studios of artists join together, and are separated by high walls which are "large" in width, height and depth.
The echo and silence become one. The daily weighs in the empty space and talks to the echo and bows before him. The day light varies greatly and you must work quickly on the walls, while at night artificial light is excessive and I replaced it with the soft light of the lamps.
I believe this study is untouchable.
Meanwhile, the outside space creates forms in which hills, clouds and trees are mixed.
The work hangs on the wall and dominates the living space of the study, it is impossible not to look at the wall.
The loneliness of physical and mental space of the first days becomes company afterwards. Thus, the absence can not be perceived; I have worked with the need for the idea will not exist until it is done, by reversing the idea of conceptual art to fit into a necessary and essential art.
Plotinus "The eye can not see the sun if to some extent it was not a sun."
This is also followed by the circles, as a kind of game between the loading of the curve and the linear tension.
As Lacan noted: when a subject is watching is not seeing, and when he’s watching he can not see. Psychoanalytic theory holds that our vision of the other bodies is always fragmentary.
Therefore the air is another element present in these works that move us as we move to the passage of air and space will occupy the empty space to move the sculptures, the air in the imaginary universe is more deductive there.
Design proceeds in pulses or beats in search of other, with the intention of invasion. These sculptures have been installed in order to design and develop through echoes.
Paola Ricci, November 2011
CCA Andratx is pleased to host the surprising show of photographs authored by the internationally renowned photographer Henrik Saxgren (1953, Denmark). The CCA Gallery presents a selection of the successful exhibition "Unintended Sculptures", which was shown in 2009 at the National Museum of Photography and Martin Asbaek Gallery, both in Copenhagen.
The artist starts from the assumption that anything in the world can potentially become an art object. The exhibition becomes an image archive of manmade objects, apparently abandoned in the wild.
The exhibition includes a series of large format photographs in which Saxgren has worked since 2001. From all around the world, especially Spain and Iceland, he collects landscapes images, which a priori seem really idyllic, but in which the hand of men can be lamentably seen.
