A curatorial project/ Un proyecto curatorial

Mechanical Fables

With the suggestive title of Mechanical Fables, a set of works, all attached to the figurative and of medium- format language, are combined with an undeniable technical mastery, evidencing the most recent work of Alejandro Cordovés Rodríguez. Ceramics continue to be the ideal support that allows to imitate other materials, as well as to suggest density and movement. Although the fragility of the clay implies limitation in creative terms, this time subverts that criterion, because some of the pieces surpass the almost traditional static of the sculpture. It becomes visible the importance of the seriality of objects, which, in principle, was a mere formal resource. This has sometimes become another strategy that supports concepts associated with a possible mechanization of a man's life dynamics.

The differentiation in size of the works responds to the intention to create a personalized world in which some recognizable elements of reality are oversize and others maintain or decrease their usual scale. The artist has consciously made the incorporation, to the three-dimensional volume of clay, of recyclable spares of discontinued machinery or other artifacts, which in addition to achieving interesting visual contrasts enunciates the impact of the mechanical world within his plastic discourse.

A singular character is the protagonist. It has the capacity to inhabit everywhere and to assume different roles of human everyday life. Its repeated presence in dialogue with sculptures that simulate toys to interact, such as objects, artifacts or animals in its variant closer to reality and others hybrids or metamorphosed animals, allows to build possible messages derived from such a link. Transcending the habitable physical space, war as a contemporary phenomenon and triggering dehumanization, flirtations with national history itself, are some of the issues raised.

So, with this exhibition the author tries to suggest a series of histories -in fact fables - that are referents of timeless circumstances of a global context. There is a certain amount of humor in the treatment of the character and objects in general, where the idea of the game underlies as another unifying element at the of the game underlies as another unifying element at the level of meaning.

In short, everything seems to be a great game in this built universe, in which nothing can be dispensed with, because they intertwine for what is needed, and contributes and functions to communicate all elements are diverse various questions.

Mechanical Fables: works of art