Exhibition view Matter-Antimatter, 2021 | Espai Nivi Collblanc, Castellón (Spain)
Exhibition view Matter-Antimatter, 2021 | Espai Nivi Collblanc, Castellón (Spain)
Matter-Antimatter, 2021
In the exhibition at the Gallery Espai Nivi Collblanc in 2021, both individual works and the overall installation allude to the complex scientific topic of Matter-Antimatter in a subtle and entangled way. As in science, for every particle, there exists a corresponding antiparticle, exactly matching the particle but with an opposite charge, so are most of the displayed works interpreted the same way. A collision between a particle and its antiparticle leads to their mutual annihilation, creating energy like cosmic rays. The exhibition attempts to make its own cosmic narrative the subject of artistic-scientific investigation, to explore what lies behind visible reality.
Scanned hemispheres, 2021 | machine embroidery on cotton fabric; 54 x 54 x 3 cm
Map of the Multiverse, 2021 | acrylic and machine embroidery on raw cotton, sewing; 130 x 160 cm
Little space melodies I & II, 2020 | acrylic, tape and machine embroidery on raw cotton; 20 x 20 cm each one
Machine embroidery detail on cotton fabric, tube, string | Photo: Rubén G. Calzada
Exhibition view Matter-Antimatter, 2021 | Espai Nivi Collblanc, Castellón (Spain)
from the series Little planet models, 2020 | machine embroidery on cotton fabric; 25,5 x 21,5 cm each one (9 pieces in total)
Visual mutations, 2020 | machine embroidery on cotton fabric, animation
Inside a Pallasite I & II, 2020 | acrylic and machine embroidery on canvas and raw cotton, sewing; 55 x 46 cm each one
Exhibition view Matter-Antimatter, 2021 | Espai Nivi Collblanc, Castellón (Spain)
Exhibition view Matter-Antimatter, 2021 | Espai Nivi Collblanc, Castellón (Spain)
Spread Meteroites, 2020 | acrylic, pencil and machine embroidery on fabric and linen, sewing; 81 x 65 cm
Meteroites from Vesta II, 2021 | acrylic and machine embroidery on canvas; 117 x 90 cm
Meteroites from Vesta III, 2021 | acrylic and machine embroidery on canvas; Ø 100 cm
Exhibition view Matter-Antimatter, 2021 | Espai Nivi Collblanc, Castellón (Spain) | Orbits (densed); Orbits (expanding), 2019-2021 | machine embroidery on cotton and synthetic fabric; approx. 160 x 200 cm, 260 x 300 cm
Orbits (densed/expanding), 2019-2021
This work was created slowly over a more extended period in analogy to the creation of the scientifically generated image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), one of the deepest images of the universe, taken in the range of visible light. Its single picture was created from 800 individual exposures taken during 400 earth orbits of the Hubble Space Telescope between September 2003 and January 2004. My work also refers to this multiple fragmentation of an image and shows a tactile version of the HUDF, in opposite dimensions: compressed and expanding. But it could also be a swarm of species in the depths of the oceans, likewise portraying a world opposite to the universe.
Element from Orbits, 2019-2021 machine embroidery on cotton fabric; 40 x 30 cm
Orbits (densed), 2019-2021 | machine embroidery on cotton and synthetic fabric; approx. 160 x 200 cm,
Exhibition view Matter-Antimatter, 2021 | Espai Nivi Collblanc, Castellón (Spain)
Performance Viertelstunde by Rubén G. Calzada | video 00:59 min.
Studio view Orbits (expanding), 2019-2021 | machine embroidery on cotton fabric, approx. 300 x 400 cm
