PREMATURE ARCHITECTURES (ARQUITECTURAS PREMATURAS) BY VALCÁRCEL MEDINA

Premature architectures includes all the projects on urbanism and architecture conceived by Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, an artist who for decades has been nourishing himself from the city and our constructed environment as one of his main sources of inspiration and action. A "manifesto of disagreement between the logic of construction -as an economy of use- and the constructive logic -as a technique of use-". These are not utopian projects, on the contrary, according to the artist himself, they are the most topical, united to the place and the moment, because they do not dictate ways of living, but propose other ways of making life. Valcárcel Medina unfolds a set of personal actions, which may well serve as an example, "but never have an exemplary value".

These very particular, heterodox and clairvoyant proposals by Valcárcel Medina (2007 Plastic Arts National Prize and 2015 Velázquez Prize) move from the domestic to the public space, and would need another era and another society to materialize. This is what makes them, therefore, premature creations. The edition is completed with the replicas that the artist formulated in Architect's Data, by Ernst Neufert, commonly known as the Neufert.

The exhibition of the same name can be visited at the MUSAC museum (León) until 26th September 2021. In 2022 it will be exhibited in Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao) from 19th May to 22nd September.

ISIDORO VALCÁRCEL MEDINA (Murcia, 1937) has developed a body of work based on a critical research of the notions and conventions of the art system and the relationships between art and people. For almost 50 years of artistic proposals and actions - very often conceptual and far from institutionalised spaces, designed to be experienced live - the work of this artist has evolved to a dematerialisation that favours not so much the objectification of art, but rather the experience, which underlines the interest of the artist to interrelate life and art.

Fact Sheet

• Co-edition: Caniche Editorial, Musac and Azkuna Zentroa
• Languages: Trilingual (Spanish/Basque/English)
• Pages: 96+96+80
• Format: Box with three booklets