Olmo Blanco (Santiago de Compostela, 1982) presents PARKING, his new work in a hybrid exhibition format in which the barriers between art and craft converge to turn our gaze towards a society dominated by digitalisation and industrialisation.

 

In this exhibition we find geometric shapes and bright colours that return to the retro aesthetics of a generation that was marked by great technological and digital advances. The artist takes up the motifs that marked the last years of the 20th century to take the viewer back to a bygone era through a contemporary gaze.

 

Technology, industry, consumerism or massification are just some of the motifs that give life to works that recover a beauty based on the substantial and the simple. The artist purifies and builds until he recovers the essence and most characteristic features of those objects that give life to his work, creating a paradox between container and content, since, despite their formal austerity, in them he reflects on an alienated and complex, massified and superficial society, in which people become simple automated pawns in a game or a machine that is constantly advancing.

 

In PARKING he presents works that range from painting to jewellery and furniture, claiming the artistic and expressive capacity of all of them. The works recover the aesthetics of the 90s; an urban aesthetic typical of a youth that enjoyed video consoles and techno music, and in which video games and technology were a social and recreational revolution, also artistic. Olmo Blanco recovers these motifs to adapt them to his own intrigues and give them a social and philosophical name. In this way, we find modern and urban spaces that acquire a symbolic value in a world absorbed by those technological and industrial developments.

 

Olmo Blanco, who has an artistic career of more than fifteen years, participating in numerous individual and collective exhibitions, graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca. Among his many selections, interventions and awards, we can highlight his participation in the 31st International Biennial of Pontevedra, in the 2012 International Biennial of Montevideo or the 1st Prize of the Eixo Atlántico Biennial 2015. His work is part of important public and private collections, both national and international.