Luis URCULO

Profile

Born in 1978, Madrid. Lives and works in Madrid and Mexico City. Graduated from Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid in 2006. Based on a redefinition of the possible tools, procedures and formats within architecture, Urculo's work is an investigation focused on representation and the capture-narrative of the 'invisible' that defines the space. His works have been exhibited in the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2013), "Storefront for Art & Architecture" (New York, 2013), "YAP MAXXI 2011" (Rome, 2011), "Fabrica Features" (Lisbone, 2009), "the 11Ith International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale - Spanish pavilion" (Venice, 2008) and he will have first solo exhibition at the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art (Chile) in September, 2014.

About works / performance

My work has been based on a redefenition of the possible tools, procedures and formats within architecture. Mainly is an investigation focused on representation and the capture-narrative of the 'invisible' that defines the space. A work not so directly related with the gravity and weight, a value which has been a main unit to measure construction and its mediatic impasct on the last decades. Video as a tool. allows to develop pieces of diverse scale working on existing spaces or through mockups and study modles (Covers, Essay on Ruins, Dear New York) where I have tried to draw space and all that defines it.

Atlas, Drawing on glass, 180 x 150 cms, 2012

Covers, Video Still, 2011

Covers, Video Still, 2011

Dear New York, Video Still, 2012

Dear New York, Video Still, 2012

Dear New York, Video Still, 2012

Essay on Ruins, Video Still, 2012

Essay on Ruins, Video Still, 2012

Future (Macdonalds), Drawing on glass, 100 x 70 cms, 2012

STRUCTURE 23, Laquered Wood 17 x 12, 2013

Units #01, Drawing on photo print, 100x100 cms, 2012