Until 26 October, the third floor of the Centro Cultural CentroCentro in Madrid (Plaza de Cibeles, 1) presents the exhibition Tres experiencias formales, a reflection on contemporary sculpture, based on the work of three talented artists: Núria Fuster, Clara Montoya and Sandra Val.
Although his plastic language is very differentiated, his works are presented here as three models of research, in which the formalist tradition of sculpture unfolds. Despite its experimental character, this formalism does not, however, renounce certain contents.
Taking as a pretext the book Nature, History, God by the Donostiarra philosopher Xavier Zubiri, published in 1944, the exhibition tries to think some possible contents. His intention, however, is not to illustrate philosophical concepts, but only to expose them schematically, through the formal experiences of these three artists. His sculptures and installations exemplify these three fundamental concepts of Western metaphysics, in an intellectual exercise that will require the hermeneutics of the works and comprehension by the spectator.
Three formal experiences opens with a sculptural installation by the artist Sandra Val, in which the idea of the garden is evoked and, with it, the first appearance of the idea of nature. The itinerary continues with a spectacular installative proposal by Clara Montoya, in which she deliberately wants to suggest the idea of the responsibility we have towards nature and towards history. This responsibility for our own actions brings us, secondly, into contact with a certain idea of history.
The exhibition closes with the sculptural intervention of Núria Fuster, which invites us to perceive a certain lively life and a certain awareness of the objects. This conscious subjectivity of the matter is here put in relation with the romantic philosophical tradition and with the pantheistic philosophy of Spinoza, who pointed out the absolute identity between Deus sive Natura sive Substantia. This identity is what we are trying to think here, in the sense proposed by the reading of the book Nature, History, God by Xavier Zubiri, whose publication has now been forty years.
