Video: Dusty Work: Daybreak installation by artist Oscar Santillan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Artist from Ecuador Oscar Santillan (Oscar Santillan) offers a new look at the mesmerizing play of light passing through the glass in his installation "Dawn" (Daybreak). Instead of punching a real window through a solid wall, he scrapes some plaster off of it, and then from it spreads the reflection of the morning sun on the floor.
The secret to creating the art object invented by Santillan is simple, almost primitive: you don't need anything other than a precise hand and a construction scraper. Nevertheless, the end result is an original, mesmerizing work of art that makes its viewers think about what is light, shadow, perspective.
Santillan seems to have a soft spot for the lush stained glass windows and lavish decoration of Catholic churches. The windows, the frames for which he carefully "scrapes" on the wall, would be more suitable for a church - even a village one - than for a residential building.
Ecuador rarely appears in the field of view of fans of contemporary art - most often as a place where artists from more "advanced" countries (Margot Kent is looking for raw materials for his hand-made in the local bazaars, and Peter Menzel takes his socially oriented photographs). The Dawn project is evidence not only of the presence of contemporary artists in Ecuador, but of their extraordinary and mature thinking.
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