A whole host of local, national and international guest artists will be visiting Stavanger between 1 September and 1 December in a three month long experiment to create and hopefully help define what makes a "street art" city.
First up in this years guests artists is the brilliant Galiacian artist whose work embodies the essence of street art, if not all art. What does it mean to be assimilated into the grinding bureaucracy of a capitalistic status quo, and how to escape it. To be human. Even for a moment. One way of course, is to grab a bombing ladder and get out in the mid day sun to make a mark.
ISAAC CORDAL (ES)
Isaac Cordal (born 1974) is a Spanish Galician artist whose work involves sculpture and photography in the urban environment. He lives in Brussels and in Galicia.
Cordal was born in 1974 in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. He studied at the University of Fine Arts Pontevedra for a degree in sculpture, followed by five years at the School of Canteiros Pontevedra, a school dedicated to the conservation of stone crafts. He also trained at Camberwell College of Arts in London.
Cement Eclipses is one of his best known projects consisting of small cement sculptures installed and photographed in urban space. His figures can be found pasted on top of bus shelters, walls, cornices, window ledges and other public surfaces. The sculptures act as a metaphor to reflect on politics, bureaucracy & power. They are presented in various absurd situations in urban space. These small nomadic sculptures can be found in cities across the world. His work is a critical reflection on the idea of progress, of human misery, climate change and the gradual devaluation of our existence among others topics. These small sculptures primarily represent a social stereotype, but expand to businessmen dressed in a bright pink lama onesie’s and wolf slippers carrying briefcases, timeless beings not unlike “The Gray Men” of Momo, a fantasy novel by Michael Ende, published in 1973. Is this a fantasy or is this the real life, as someone once sang.
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