Carmen Ortíz Blanco

Carmen Ortiz Blanco, 1966, València

A work that is intimate, reflective, sensitive, and reductive. Seeking to delve into the relationship between philosophy and art. In the series I have been working on, I have sought to answer myself while also opening new questions. “Becoming”, “Butterfly Souls”, “Gnomon”, “Waves”—reflections on what lies beyond: destiny, the transcendence of the human being, time, actions, and their consequences.

The concept of becoming speaks about the enigmatic and the act of discovery. My sculptures, based on intellectual, sensitive, and formal foundations, are metaphorical works—doors, constructions—that are slightly ajar, allowing us to glimpse what is to come. Some works in these series are made from lacquered steel sheets, resembling a kind of origami, where, as in previous projects, clean, precise, and subtle cuts, folds, and openings interact. Seeking a sensitivity different from coldness and rigid geometry, we discover that the sculptures—architectures, metaphysical doors, made from iron, an extremely solid material—explore uncertainty, thresholds, and transcendence. In the Gnomon series (the sundial’s needle), I engage in dialogue about light, time, its reality, and the deception or certainty of both.

In other works on canvas with wooden structures (“Waves”), the canvas behaves with subtle movements, slight omissions of action, invisible pulsations, causing the canvas to throb with life. From the rigidity of minimalism to the search for the essence of life. The aim is to unite in these works, as if they were a human being, matter and soul. An intimate, simple, geometric character, avoiding spectacle or excess. Using tools such as: emptiness, ellipsis, white, geometry, line, light, and shadows. Techniques consistent with the themes. I seek the relationship between the viewer and elements that transcend the artwork and its vision. A prolonged dialogue is needed to experience the work as an almost virtual experience in space and time. Creating with light, shadows, curves, nuances... a personal, universal space, where both the act of creation and of observation take place in absolute solitude and silence, free from interference, with the intention of reaching the transcendent.