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Intervenciones de Espacio
Space interventions
Diverse artistic interventions along the past 10 years in public spaces, urban furniture, houses and buildings.
Climbing walls.
After Moments of Darkness, we Managed to Open the Light
The immoderate growth of cities represents a daunting yet formidable challenge. The demands for solutions that address ecological, social, economic and infrastructural problems are ever increasing. It is imperative to create visual and functional stimuli that favourably impact the landscape, consciousness and urban dynamics. This encourages and stimulates dialogue between the citizen and his city, as well as interest in the relationship between man and his environment, with the purpose of rescuing the term “urban reconciliation” from utopia.
Urban Reconciliation:
Art and Furnishings in the Contemporary Landscape
The urban context should be the main stage for this reconciliation, giving back to the citizens the public space as a motivation to rediscover our squares, streets, buildings, and avenues, giving new meaning to our cities.
It is only possible to love what is truly known and admired.
Street furniture should not be limited to fulfilling its function alone. In addition to creating spaces for people, more ambitious objectives are required. The equipment and urban image must take advantage of the scenario that big cities offer us to try out new codes of coexistence, more in line with the rhythm of contemporary dynamics. Furniture, intervention and urban art must act as symbols of reference, provoking reflections and impulses that go beyond the simple object-function perception.
Our walk is conditioned by a linear grid delimited by crossroads and borders; the environment is the echo of the edges that shape our cities. There is an ancestral inertia in our civilizations that makes us perceive the universe as a box of infinite proportions. This perception influences how we design and experience our urban environment.
In any staging, the story is a fundamental part. It can develop in various directions: temporal and spatial, or even lacking a defined order. The plot functions as the computer that dictates the rhythm, the sequence and the background. We can also understand it as the instrument of communication that can disrupt the immediate significance and lead us to deeper reflections. The walls that, in the specific case of the building, the Torres Bodet Theater, function as containers of stories, invite us to reinterpret the volume and to intervene the spaces with the purpose of generating forms that transform from a narrative plot into a physical one, becoming evident in the framework of the façade that symbolizes this crossing of times and spaces.
Magnifying architecture through simplicity would be something like perceiving silences aloud
The common thread of Francisco Morales' work is always connected to this paradoxical coexistence of order and chaos, impulse and reason, freedom and rules. His works reflect how precise geometric references can coexist with dynamic and organic forms with imperfect edges. We live in a spectacular world where we systematically turn our backs on the essential. Pulling back the veil of the apparent to highlight that which is not offered to us at first glance has been an important argument in the creative process of Francisco Morales.
