“Sidereal/Human Architectures”
by Anastasia Kosmadaki & Emile Pierret
Curated by Savina Tarsitano
Opening on Tuesday 20th of June, 19h30
Exhibition from 21st of June to 1st of July
We are very honoured to present the prize-artistic residency Espronceda / ARBA-ESA in cooperation with the Royal Fine Arts Academy of Brussels. We are thankful to the director Charlie Taché of the Gallery Tat Art of Barcelona for his contribution as a member of the jury of the prize.
This project represents Espronceda’s philosophy on the importance of a good contemporary practice on the relationship between universities, academies, and centres of art: “Sidereal/Human Architectures” is the aesthetic synthesis of the young artists’ Emile Pierret’s and Anastasia Kosmadaki’s artistic research. They propose a new and critical look at how to create and use different techniques to reconnect the human being with space and imagination. The exhibition presents the young artists’ sculptures, which work with spatial processes from the peripheries with an attentive listening to the spatiality of reality and the tangible and intangible world. Spatial aesthetics is an intervention into thought production systems, communication, and technology, presenting models that sometimes diverge or create concrete alternatives of transformation; in so doing, the viewer can enter into an imaginary, three-dimensional and entropic architecture of reality and imagination, from utopia to dystopia and from dystopia to utopia.
Emile Pierret builds metamorphoses with his sculptures — perceptive knowledge previously acquired through theory and transported to an “other world”, where the real and the illusory share the same space. With his work he translates reality into aesthetic criticism, shifting the era of consumerism into an imaginary and parallel dimension to provoke the spectator’s reflection from dystopia to utopia. His sculptures are the result of his trip to Barcelona.
Anastasia Kosmadaki’s artistic research focuses on a parallel microcosmic architecture translated through sculptures and embroidery. She seeks to create a mystical and spatial vision of reality, myths, and nature by creating sculptures connected with the poetics of embroidery, underlining the importance of the relationship between tradition and contemporaneity. With her work, she translates the importance of the gaze, reflection, and utopia hidden in the mystery of an engineering, emotional and mysterious nature.
