Yasmany Arboleda Review
Imagination Ltd Gallery
London 15th of September 2007
Yasmany Arboleda is a Colombian born architect, working as an environmental designer at Imagination, in their New York office; he is also a painter and a photographer. Yasmany was presenting at his company’s gallery in London work from his “New Vitruvians” series. The exhibition was on for one day only, the 15th of September 2007, as part of the architecture weekend, Open House in London.
I asked Yasmany how he places his work in the contemporary art world today, noticing that it is highly guided by rules of architectural interior design. He replied that he considers what he does to be art pieces and not interior design or decorative pieces, although I agree with him, it is very interesting to see how obvious his training and architectural designer skills influenced this work on exhibition.
The work exhibited, “New Vitruvians” according to the artist, offers a contemporary take on the intricacies of human beauty and perfection, and it tries to reveal new truths about perceptions of physical ideals and the social and cultural factors that influence them. The pieces are unique, large-scale neo sphere paintings, 3-D sculptures and even “ball-dresses”, all of which were being exhibited in the atrium space of the imagination building.
Sidonio Costa
London
September 2007
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