ESPACIOS CONCRETOS, 2017
GALERIA IMPAKTO, LIMA, PERU

ANNETT ZINSMEISTER, SOL BAILEY-BARKER, GAMALIEL RODRIGUEZ & AUGUSTO BALLARDO

This October 11 opens, at the Impakto gallery, the exhibition CONCRETE SPACES. An excellent opportunity to learn about the works of Annett Zinsmeister (Germany, 1967), Sol Bailey Barker (Great Britain, 1987), Gamaliel Rodriguez (Puerto Rico, 1980) and Augusto Ballardo (Peru, 1986). Four artists who move on the thin border that exists between art and structure. Annett Zinsmeister creates fictional architectural landscapes. Sometimes, with a monumentality that reminds us of brutalist buildings and, in others, with the opacity typical of gloomy industrial workshops. Thus, and from the juxtaposition of photographic images, the artist diagrams utopian, surreal mosaics. On the other hand, Sol Bailey Barker builds geometric volumes with pronounced edges, which he leaves in the room to discover, later, the symbolic power that his sculptures exert on the visitor. Barker encourages the encounter between the object and the semantic universe of the observer. Gamaliel Rodriguez presents large format acrylics. In these you can easily see the well-defined figures of houses and buildings. However, this passivity is interrupted by an amorphous body that could well be clouds or weeds, but which in both cases devour and transgress the strict rules of architecture. Finally, we have the work of Augusto Ballardo, an artist who in recent years has been carefully observing the natural environment where pre-Hispanic cultures settled. In this process, he has discovered visual elements that we can still find today and that function as patterns within a complex social structure.