MARTIN ✚ ORTIZ DE TARANCO
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    • We, the people
    • Disagreeable creatures
    • Full body experiences
      • Experiments in performance
      • Them, big boys
      • Martino
      • Within Cells interlinked
      • Three times me, three times each
  • Archive
    • 2017 (Bath, UK)
      • House
      • Body Works
      • Dollboy
      • Memoryhouse
    • 2018 (Bath, UK)
      • Body and Space
      • Breakfasts
      • Floor Movements
      • Machina
      • Shadow Creature
      • Pavilion
      • Absent Artists' Collective
      • Without Darkness there is no light
      • 36 days in China
    • 2019 (Chicago, IL, USA)
      • International study exchange at Columbia College Chicago
      • Studio Assistant for Joan Giroux
      • Photography
    • 2020 (Chicago, IL, USA)
      • Bad at Sports
      • Furniture design
      • Biomorphic sculpture
      • Photography
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  • CV
  • Artist's Statement
  • Recent Works
    • We, the people
    • Disagreeable creatures
    • Full body experiences
      • Experiments in performance
      • Them, big boys
      • Martino
      • Within Cells interlinked
      • Three times me, three times each
  • Archive
    • 2017 (Bath, UK)
      • House
      • Body Works
      • Dollboy
      • Memoryhouse
    • 2018 (Bath, UK)
      • Body and Space
      • Breakfasts
      • Floor Movements
      • Machina
      • Shadow Creature
      • Pavilion
      • Absent Artists' Collective
      • Without Darkness there is no light
      • 36 days in China
    • 2019 (Chicago, IL, USA)
      • International study exchange at Columbia College Chicago
      • Studio Assistant for Joan Giroux
      • Photography
    • 2020 (Chicago, IL, USA)
      • Bad at Sports
      • Furniture design
      • Biomorphic sculpture
      • Photography
  • Courses
  • Contact
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Dollboy - November 2017
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​Dollboy was the result of my interest in breaking the surface of my body into parts that could be reproduced in order to create copies of it, an idea that I had started to develop in Bodyworks.
 
When I started working on it, I became interested in the idea of a skin that could be mechanically reproduced and this is why I chose a thin (1mm thick) rubber as the material to realise this project. Rubber has a very strong artificial quality to it as a derivate of petrol while at the same time retaining a skin feel, almost like leather.
 
Originally I was intending to create two sculptures that would interact with each other as if they were having an argument or a fight – I was directly referencing the works of Lynn Chadwick - and I was going to hang my pieces from the ceiling. I did several drawings portraying this idea, but halfway through the making of the first of the pieces I became interested in the felt sculptures that Robert Morris made and in how he used the material in those works. I thought that I wasn’t making use of the qualities of the material to its fully extent and I decided that I wanted to do something similar with Dollboy, as rubber would allow me to play in a similar way.
 
At this point I decided to modify the arms so that the piece could hang directly from them or be manipulated.
 
Originally I thought that stuffing the body that I had made with a material that would make it bulkier would be the best solution but presently I believe that the shape that I have created works better on its own, being completely hollow and manifesting its properties.
 
I finally decided to modify the legs in the same fashion as the arms and hang it on the wall at the same height of a person.
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​Using Dollboy as the base material to work in further pieces I have made some drawings proposing other solutions that would involve the participation of the viewer for the piece to be completed, as splitting it in two and having a person walk between both halves so that the body can be experienced from the inside.
 
The anthropomorphic approach of this variation interests me most at this point.
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martin.ortizdetaranco@gmail.com
  • CV
  • Artist's Statement
  • Recent Works
    • We, the people
    • Disagreeable creatures
    • Full body experiences
      • Experiments in performance
      • Them, big boys
      • Martino
      • Within Cells interlinked
      • Three times me, three times each
  • Archive
    • 2017 (Bath, UK)
      • House
      • Body Works
      • Dollboy
      • Memoryhouse
    • 2018 (Bath, UK)
      • Body and Space
      • Breakfasts
      • Floor Movements
      • Machina
      • Shadow Creature
      • Pavilion
      • Absent Artists' Collective
      • Without Darkness there is no light
      • 36 days in China
    • 2019 (Chicago, IL, USA)
      • International study exchange at Columbia College Chicago
      • Studio Assistant for Joan Giroux
      • Photography
    • 2020 (Chicago, IL, USA)
      • Bad at Sports
      • Furniture design
      • Biomorphic sculpture
      • Photography
  • Courses
  • Contact