The Blob

Urban Interventions

My installations “The Blob…”, from my series of Urban Interventions, is a conglomeration of rope netting and inflated balls. 

It is a reference to the 1958  B & W classic science fiction movie “The Blob” with Steve McQueen.

With my series of Urban Interventions I recreate my need as an artist to make out of any place, a stage to dialogize with the public.

I jump from conventional spaces and exhibit and intervene any available corner; to benefit by the versatility in the possibilities of space that are nowadays within our reach; and to take advantage of those alternative spaces that allow me a better and informal interaction with the spectator.

For me, the intervention of urban spaces means to consider the city as a space for socialization, a place where human relations are formed, exchanged and transformed; it is also a place where I pretend to shape the relation between city and art.

I use the materials giving them properties that exceed their intrinsic qualities.

I emphasize its rude industrial power, trying to underline the predominance of what’s industrial in a society that values the consumption, the artificial, the apparent, the false, the fake, the imitations.

I have been working with the red sphere for more than a decade, as an energetic symbol, as a metaphor of life and as a sign of what’s alive.

The red sphere is the metaphor of our journey through life.

It is life itself, the nucleus and origin of all being.

My installations “The Blob…”, represents a metaphor of the urban stacking, conglomeration and overpopulation in contemporaneous cities. 

It is a reflection about the concept of “city” and its uncontrolled growths repercussions. 

I pretend to establish a consideration over the importance of the city and the significance of urban changes on a social basis. 

It pretends to reflect tension, as well as the ties and attachments of man living in big cities and metropolis, obviating the chaos that could be generated due to the overpopulation in such places.  Man chooses to live in large cities, instead of living in quiet and rural places in direct contact with nature.

The over-population in contemporary cities, generates excessive constructions, generally improvised or without due planning. This urban chaos significantly rebounds over the cities’ landscape, therefore generating a cement and concrete disproportion over natural landscapes. Large modern cities are solutions for social growth and development, but from a human point of view, they rebound negatively in the individual-nature relationship, and create a breach in the human condition.  

Large modern cities are like animals devouring us, like a disease or epidemic attacking us without control and hypnotizing the individual.