Antonio Fernández Alvira

Antonio Fernández Alvira, 1977, Huesca

The work of Antonio Fernández Alvira revolves around the construction processes and the meaning of the images that make up our environment. He analyzes and explores concepts such as representation and visual fraud, the fragility and ephemeral nature of our environment, or the creation of symbols, exploring in turn the mechanisms that allow all of this to be legitimized in the collective imagination. To do this, he takes architecture and its component elements as generators of a physical corpus, which together with experimentation with materials, serve to shape, through a processual and formal exploration, his sculptural and installation works. Throughout his various projects, he has delved into the binomial image and meaning, making use of tools such as fake and museum displays, also analyzing the weight of the academic in the configuration of our environment. The material and formal exploration, together with the fragmentation, the archaeological and the ruin, make up a common thread within his work, having made various pieces and architectural installations in materials such as paper (La Dernière Lueur and The last glow), or through resins, plaster, cement or metal (Elements for a speech). In his latest works (El fluir en lo fixed) the procedural and the purification of lines take center stage, making the architecture organic, configuring and modulating the spaces where it cohabits through colored walls and metal structures.