Maria Mercedes Rozo
Landscapes of the Mind
May 18 - June 7, 2012
Reception:
Thursday May 24, 2012 6-8 PM
Press Release
Maria Mercedes Rozo's sculptures are a melding of science and art, elevating one to the level of the other and vice versa. She toys with playful, visual stimuli in a sophisticated geometrical construction. Using her expertise in the Japanese art of Origami, she creates structures which evoke kineticism but are essentially static. The temptation to deconstruct and rebuild her sculptures is pervasive but never too demanding, for her sculptures are complete and absolute as they are. Using metals, rubber and other industrial materials, Rozo creates works which are evocative of urban structures, rendered portable and miniature. This dichotomy is further expressed in the opposing themes which flow through her works: flexibility versus rigidity, opacity versus transparence, colors versus black and white.
Rozo's background in Industrial Design is evident throughout her oeuvre, but her passion causes her potentially detached designs to come alive with warmth and animation, thus achieving her true artistic intent.
Artist Statement
I work with construction materials such as metal (iron, steel and aluminum) and rubber. I want to create works that mix their own opposite qualities such as hardness/flexibility, opacity/brightness, strength/weakness, warmth/cold, and so on. I try to convey feelings not only through form and color but through the materials I use. All my works are assembled with screws, incorporating colors in a clean way, creating an unconsciously playful and childish message. In my sculptures the theory of aesthetics is brought into play, involving concepts of symmetry, balance, rhythm and composition. In some projects I must first develop models or prototypes in wood or cardboard before proceeding with the preparation of the final work. The idea is, paradoxically, for all of this careful preparation to result in something that is simple and natural, without artifice – something that shares my ideas and emotions and generates and exposes feelings in the viewer.
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