Nuria & El tono: “(x, y, z)”
After his recent participation in the collective show “Tras la pared“, El tono, and now also his artistic companion, Nuria (more about both of them here: www.eltono.com), two of the most international street artist from Madrid, opened yesterday, thursday 12/1/06, their new exhibition “(x, y, z)” at the Vacío9 gallery (General Castaños 5, Madrid).
In this show, the duo has centered on their work in 3D. Nuria, whose work usually revolves around abstractions of a security key, has built a gigantic, almost intimidating, key structure in the middle of the space. El tono, on the other hand, has built 3 smaller tridimensional “tonos” (abstractions of tuning forks).
El Tono, had already constructed “tono” sculptures in the past. The first that we know of was his “Motonorista” installation in Subaquatica. Later he built the “politonos”, cardboard colored sculptures that he installed in the street. A video of that “experiment” is shown at this exhibition.
Photography by: Jorge Domínguez
Photography by: Jorge Domínguez
Decorating the walls of the gallery you can also find the traditional paintings of Nuria and Tono. It’s not very usual to see these paintings indoors since they only create them for their street interventions but the apparent contradiction is solved by making these forms emerge from windows and the chimeny as if they were coming from the outside, curiously taking a peek at their new 3D brothers.
January 13th, 2006 01:39pm Administrador
