Des-hecho Series
This is a 4-piece series of drawings on canvas.
Two concepts of subversion of the landscape were used: coal extraction and waste insertion, in Germany and Chile respectively. Both concepts have in common the use of energy, economic investment and environmental questioning, but through opposite geological procedures.
Based on satellite images as scientific instruments used for the study of both concepts, I made an interpretation of garbage dumps aerial landscapes, using coal and graphite on large-scale treated canvas. The selected garbage dumps have become elements of controversy in their own way, due to environmental and political reasons. Hereby, coal and graphite will be embodied not only for the direct application of the coal material in the artistic context, but also as reference to the historical meaning that this mineral has in Europe. At the same time, solid waste inserted and polluting Chilean landscapes will be subject of artistic interpretation through the gesture (drawing).
Graphite and coal on canvas
100 x 200 cm each
2009
See more:
1. Boyeco
2. Farfana
