Francisco Rozas - In Planning

The exhibition "In Planning" presents new works by the
artist Francisco Rozas that investigate the process of
designing and the gallery space as a permanent site of
construction.

A cube-shaped sculpture placed enthroned on a staircase in
the exhibition space, already catches the visitor’s attention
through the front window before entering the gallery.

Vertical and horizontal laminate pieces in diverse patterns
are superimposed on each other creating a symmetrical
complex as supportive elements.

This equilibrium confronts the visitor front on like a
stratified sample of material.The imitative function of the
material also results in a distorted view of the visual
appearance of the entire object, oscillating between two and
three-dimensionality. It is the ambivalent character of the
model, as a stable and unstable condition in process that is
an inherent theme in this work and other presented pieces.

The aspect of planning being displayed as an integral
element of the artworks raises the question about the
actual construction of an abstract aesthetic situation, about
model or reality.

This subject of consideration is also reflected in an
apposition of geometric, seemingly "massive statues"
extending on a shelf bordering on reaching the ceiling. Only
at second glance the sculptures reveal themselves to be
fragile cardboard models and past representatives of an idea
that has not yet reached the final stage of it's realization.

However, instead of vague models of an individual
randomised experiment, they rather embody exemplary
visualizations of mathematical dependencies through their
static efficiency.

This can particularly be seen in more sketches drawn on
paper behind a glass panel fixed diagonally on the wall, that
served Rozas as a template for the precise execution of the
cardboard sculptures. In the form of a documented relic
extending into space, these drawings disclose the artist’s
intention going beyond the examination of how process can
be spatially constructed. Furthermore it brings into question
a utopian model in the signs of modernity, that steadily
implies speculation about the prediction of the future or the
reinvention of the past.

Text: Elisa R. Linn