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Nacho Criado in Retiro.
Volume II — Number 45
June 2012
of Nacho Criado focuses on materials such as iron and glass, as the work LSD (1990-1995). Among the work he did in the late nineties included the installation of large format of traps and lies (1999) and the work dedicated to the musician Glenn Gould and writer Samuel Beckett, between the departure and arrival is the only possible adventure shipwreck (1997). Moreover, the Crystal Palace has 7 pieces designed and made specifically for this space. The work of the Crystal Palace show the persistence and evolution of the interests of Raised in Ecuador The Palacio de Velázquez retroslike photography, which falls on the on his career. pective brings together a wide seidea of "process time", as in the lection of work by Nacho Criado for work ladder (Tracking) (1971-2009) In 1991, the palace opened its doors for the exhibition of Nacho Criafour decades, although in some dedicated to the group or Zach ways, this body of work resists being experimental art, in which the artist do: Parts of water and glass. Now, 21 years later, the same space welread so literally retrospect, it rewas related: Excavation Zach comes back seven of the works mains - as intended the artist, acti(1972), which can be viewed at that made this show and they were ve in the process. the Palacio de Velázquez. made expressly to be displayed That is, many of these parts contiThe exhibition includes one of the here. nue to evolve, due to the action of most important procedural works the characteristic collaborating Raised: In / digestion (1973-1976), in The group is chaired by the glass, a material that threads the long haul agents used by the artist. which the artist presents a review of Nacho Criado and reverberates The exhibition takes a broad review of The Art Gazeta devouring action on the architecture of the palace, of the history of Criado, but not per- of moths. creating a new strain: broken glass, fectly follow a chronological proThe body and nature are important the work in ruins. gression. elements in his works in the early Parts as They can not come tonight The first works made between 1966 seventies, among which are its per(1991) or alpine Wound (1991) thus formances, documented through and 1970, explore ways to insert a reflect on the fate and future. space of strongly reductive sculptu- photographs and films, such as Body Series Action (1974): White Some of the works can be seen in re. (Peeling) and White (White and Ja- the Palace are monumentalizadas At that time, the artist begins work vier eating apples). Both can be reworkings of earlier works. on the perception of time and in seen next to another of his films: In One of the most complex projects particular on aspects of change, the corner (Jim and Kings) (1977). process, motion or duration. Nacho Criado combined his artistic he did was kiss his ass in the monkey (1991), where he worked for almost side with jobs related to the world Moth-eaten or decayed wood, as ten years. of architecture. in the work YZ (1968), painted as Raised in this piece reflects on the the Moon Series (1969), or flexible Among the designs and models irons, as recreated in Eccentricity that are exposed, is the project de- action to provide and drink to the (1968), are the main materials used signed for the 1978 Venice Bienna- bottom. by Raised in this period. le, Intersection (1975). The anecdotal is elevated to a naNacho Criado has used various techniques throughout his career,
During the nineties, the production
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rrative sequence where everything is bathed in a large dose of irony and a scenic presentation.