¿No es absurdo considerar lo que por definición es ausente? El vacío sugiere inmediatamente estas paradojas. A lo que el vacío nos invita es precisamente a esto, aproximarnos a la paradoja, más incluso que a la discusión sobre su existencia.
Albert Ribas

Is it not absurd to consider what by definition is absent? The void immediately suggests these paradoxes. What the void invites us to do is precisely this, to approach the paradox, even more than the discussion of its existence.
Albert Ribas

El hueco, la concavidad, son procedimientos para vaciar la materia, dejar aire para que una pieza tome forma. Cuando pienso en escultura, esta no me convoca si no es cómplice de la simplicidad. En oriente lo que importa de las cosas no es más que su sutilidad, el espacio y la figura se relacionan en una cadena de condicionantes necesarios. Para los atomistas, el vacío es imprescindible para que pueda existir el movimiento. A su vez, es algo que está a medias entre el sonido y el silencio. Gillo Dorfles nos dice “apenas hace falta subrayar que es precisamente el vacío lo que determina el sucesivo lleno”. Entonces, si la forma se construye a través del vacío, ¿es el vacío el que construye el equilibrio?

En el espacio donde se transita habitualmente por lo general no se ve el vacío. Lo doméstico está lleno de nosotros. Pero, en el momento exacto, o muy cerca de lo que se indica como final, todo el tiempo se llena de vacío.

: – Entonces, decidí dirigirme hacia el exterior, porque desde ahí es más fácil huir. Luego, en algún parque, dibujé una dirección que hay que seguir para llegar a un lugar.

En este ejercicio cotidiano investigo como, a través de las formas, visualizar el vacío para intentar responder de qué se trata.

The hollow, the concavity, are procedures to empty matter, to leave air for a piece to take shape. When I think of sculpture, it does not appeal to me unless it is an accomplice of simplicity. In the East, what matters about things is their subtlety, space and figure are linked in a chain of necessary conditions. For the atomists, emptiness is essential for movement to exist. In turn, it is something halfway between sound and silence. Gillo Dorfles tells us “It is hardly necessary to underline that it is precisely emptiness that determines the successive fullness". So, if shape is built through emptiness, is it emptiness that builds balance?

In the space where we inhabit, we usually do not see the emptiness. The domestic aspects are full of us. However, at the exact moment, or very close to what is indicated as the end, time is filled with emptiness.

– : So I decided to go outside, because from there it is easier to run away. Then, in some park, I drew a direction to follow to get to a place.

In this daily exercise, I explore, through shapes, how to visualize the emptiness to try to answer what this is about.

curaduría Mariana Maggio

Is it not absurd to consider what by definition is absent? The void immediately suggests these paradoxes. What the void invites us to do is precisely this, to approach the paradox, even more than the discussion of its existence.
Albert Ribas

ph. campo visible

ph. laura voskian

The hollow, the concavity, are procedures to empty matter, to leave air for a piece to take shape. When I think of sculpture, it does not appeal to me unless it is an accomplice of simplicity. In the East, what matters about things is their subtlety, space and figure are linked in a chain of necessary conditions. For the atomists, emptiness is essential for movement to exist. In turn, it is something halfway between sound and silence. Gillo Dorfles tells us “It is hardly necessary to underline that it is precisely emptiness that determines the successive fullness". So, if shape is built through emptiness, is it emptiness that builds balance?

In the space where we inhabit, we usually do not see the emptiness. The domestic aspects are full of us. However, at the exact moment, or very close to what is indicated as the end, time is filled with emptiness.

– : So I decided to go outside, because from there it is easier to run away. Then, in some park, I drew a direction to follow to get to a place.

In this daily exercise, I explore, through shapes, how to visualize the emptiness to try to answer what this is about.