VALENCIA. Walking through the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències is like traveling to the nearest future, landscapes from a movie – sometimes, in fact, literally – in which the architecture of Santiago Calatrava takes the visitor to a setting that could well be from Science fiction. Not in vain, it is the most photographed postcard in the city. Between its “lagoons” of crystal clear water and on the whitish trencadís that finishes giving shape to the promenade, new visitors now rise, seven large sculptures that dialogue with the space to look at the future from a new perspective, that of the Uruguayan artist Pablo Atchugarry.
With the exhibition Towards the future, The “sculptor of time” reflects on art as a vehicle for dialogue through seven large-format sculptures, among which are The flower, Star of light and Harmony, parts that can be seen from today until next October 13 in a walk in which they coexist “with the water terraces and the sculptures of Santiago Calatrava.” In this way, the exterior of the complex once again becomes a meeting place between art and architecture, a channel in which Atchugarry forces the viewer to look up and reflect on the future from the present.
Installed in Valencia for approximately a month, the artist confesses that he already feels like part of the city and that with his exhibition he seeks to dialogue with the space of modernity. His great pieces have already been seen in emblematic spaces such as the Museum of the Imperial Forums, in Rome, where his challenge was to establish a dialogue between his art and the history of a space of more than 2,700 years. He now “faces” this conversation again, although with the giant created by Calatrava as his interlocutor. “Art is the perfect tool to unite towns, people, culture and our times. “Sculpture becomes a signature of our time and becomes the trace of who we are,” he reflects on the exhibition.
