GABRIEL ESCÁMEZ

ORDER, PLAY AND CAOS

PORTRAITS OF LIFE

A FLOWER AMIDST THE RUBBLE

THE ACT OF SHARING

SILENT HOMAGE
TO THE ITALIAN
HISTORY OF ART

MATERIALITY
&
ABSTRACTION

AROMA
TERROSO

WHAT THE HEART DECIDES

PERFECT EMPINESS

OF CONCRETE
AND SKIN

Her blissful relationship with Carvajal House was the sort of love story where the protagonists were fated to meet. Only in this case, the lovers are made of concrete and skin.

A mural is an overlapping of two languages: architecture and painting. I don't want to resolve the idea of continuity but to question all the conflicts about the perception of the human eye versus the scale of the place or its context.

As our conversation progresses, I realise that it would be easier to list the people who have not visited this extraordinary place.

CHILLIDA LEKU

“The work for me is both answer and question … It’s not about ‘representing’ in a less perfect and even personal way what is apparent, what is known to all, but of penetrating, ‘presenting’ and bringing light where there was darkness,” Eduard Chillida wrote in one of the many notes he left undated and unordered in his study.

Benjamin’s art is not only perceived but is also thought-provoking. As the first notes emerge from the piano, I think of him as an island, wild and small, floating proudly, free and alone near a densely populated archipelago.

BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

MENDI ARGIA

Mendi Argia, or “Illuminated Mountain” as its Basque name, conveys the many sensations aroused by this house on the hill.

FERNANDO CARUNCHO

ICELAND