Mathematical Sculptures
Over the past decade Ctrl+Z has developed low-tech systems for empowering communities and building functional structures based on geodesic geometries.
At the same time, theoretical research has been developed around the ideas of symmetry, chirality and specularity of geometric configurations as a whole and of their elements and components.
This research has been fundamental for the development of functional systems and, at the same time, has revealed a whole world of relationships and configurations that have led to a journey of visual and sculptural productions.
Working with mathematical models, the possibilities are endless and new configurations can be explored forever. Among the many configurations that have been studied, some have been materialized in sculptures.
These sculptures have inherited the philosophy of large-scale functional structures, exploring models that can be made with simple tools, infrastructures and materials, deliberately avoiding solutions that would have led to the need for CNC processes, in order to privilege simplicity and claim a more personal path.
These premises, together with the dimensions of the proposed models, promoted their realization through an artisanal process.
The possibility of producing without the need for external or automated means allowed for the slow pace of a personal process and left the necessary space to establish a physical and intellectual relationship between the author and the work he is creating and with its constituent materials. A space for observation and reflection on the intermediate states of the geometric configuration as it materializes.
Once created, the presence of these proposals in public spaces allows people to appreciate the movements and transformations of the patterns across the object, and allows me to sit anonymously and enjoy the spontaneous debate about the mathematics and geometries they generate.
Water (2016)
80 x 120 x 200 cm
PVC blinds; Nets for onions, potatoes, lemons, oranges; Broken umbrellas; Oil tank; Funnel; Pallet.
Agua is a light art installation inspired by the work of Ctrl+Z on the “fog catchers”, a scale model, an example of reduced dimensions, which maintains all the characteristics of the original, which has a height of between eight and twelve meters.
The geometric study of this prototype has focused on the regular subdivision of the cylindrical surface, enhancing the appearance of functional and aesthetic patterns and at the same time the mathematical simplicity of the design itself.
Mainly recovered and reused materials have been used for its construction.
Once created, the presence of these proposals in public spaces allows people to appreciate the movements and transformations of the patterns across the object, and allows me to sit anonymously and enjoy the spontaneous debate about the mathematics and geometries they generate.
Once created, the presence of these proposals in public spaces allows people to appreciate the movements and transformations of the patterns across the object, and allows me to sit anonymously and enjoy the spontaneous debate about the mathematics and geometries they generate.
Water (2016)
80 x 120 x 200 cm
PVC blinds; Nets for onions, potatoes, lemons, oranges; Broken umbrellas; Oil tank; Funnel; Pallet.
Agua is a light art installation inspired by the work of Ctrl+Z on the “fog catchers”, a scale model, an example of reduced dimensions, which maintains all the characteristics of the original, which has a height of between eight and twelve meters.
The geometric study of this prototype has focused on the regular subdivision of the cylindrical surface, enhancing the appearance of functional and aesthetic patterns and at the same time the mathematical simplicity of the design itself.
Mainly recovered and reused materials have been used for its construction.
Air (2019)
230 x 230 x 230 x 230 cm
Medium density wood panels
For several years, research has been carried out which has led to the definition of the Z-desico construction system (Sorbole, Parcc Osasis, etc.). The geometric configuration of this system establishes curved elements around reciprocal joints known as Leonardo (da Vinci) grids.
The mathematical sculpture “Aire” emerges and is nourished by this journey. The symmetry and balance sought are finally obtained through operations of translation, rotation, reflection and superposition, with a set of asymmetric subdivisions. The regular subdivision of the spherical surface is obtained through the irregular subdivision of the constituent elements.
This process involved a specific understanding and redefinition of the very meaning of the concepts of symmetry, chirality and specularity on a spherical surface and the apparent relationships that these establish through their application on a three-dimensional curved surface.
Aire plays with these concepts and configures a geometric set that hypnotizes the eye in the search for patterns in the foreground while investigating the relationships that are created by the inevitable superposition of the background.
Shadows (2011-...)
Photograph
The personal concern and fascination with the shadows produced by these structures led to a photographic collection that was enriched by collaborations established with different photographers over the years.
Ironically, after all the mathematical efforts produced to articulate schemes that allow describing curved three-dimensional geometries through flat elements, when the sun, or a light, returns and relegates these geometries again to a two-dimensional plane, that is when I find them powerfully hypnotizing.
