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Isidro Blasco, Renowned Spanish Artist, Holds First Atlanta Exhibition
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9/14/2006  The Savannah College of Art and Design announces the opening of "The Middle of the End," a dynamic exhibition by renowned Spanish artist Isidro Blasco, on display Sept. 14–Oct. 26 at the Atlanta College of Art Gallery of the Savannah College of Art and Design, a part of the SCAD-Atlanta facilities. The gallery is located in the Memorial Arts Building at the Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree St. Blasco will discuss the foundational concepts of his work at SCAD-Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St., Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.Blasco, a native of Madrid, Spain, has lived and worked for the past decade in New York City. Through what he calls "photo-sculptures," Blasco combines architecture, photography and installation to explore themes of vision and perception in relation to physical experience. His past work has consisted of large-scale sculptures that reference the realm of private or domestic space. Blasco often begins by selecting one angle in a room and then constructs a new space from the perspective of that vantage point. The effect is a fragmentation of a single line of sight that is reminiscent of the cubist collages rendered by Picasso, Braque and other early 20th-century painters. Blasco’s 3-D sculptures result in an elliptical succession of multiple angles, producing a space that is at once recognizable and entirely new.  For this exhibition, Blasco creates 3-D photographic constructions of his Jackson Heights neighborhood in Queens, N.Y. At the center of this work, he constructs a collage consisting of the façade of his apartment building, a local subway stop, his building's inner staircase and a variety of street scenes. These elements organically radiate from a central façade, creating a large, complex sculptural work within the gallery.Blasco's work has been seen in collections at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art; Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Italy’s Academia de Bellas Artes de Roma; and Spain’s Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (Madrid), Museo de Aracena (Huelva), Museo Municipal de Alcobendas and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, among others. His numerous awards and grants include the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts; Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Studio Residency in Italy; "In the Public Realm" Public Art Fund Grant; and Socrates Sculpture Park’s Emerging Artist Fellowship. Blasco holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and is a Ph.D. candidate at the Architectural School of Madrid.
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