MARTIN ✚ ORTIZ DE TARANCO
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    • 2020 (Chicago, IL, USA)
      • Bad at Sports
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      • Biomorphic sculpture
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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
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Shadow Creature 2018
Sculpture with mobile parts. Galvanised wire and printed acetate. 44 x 36 x 38 cm.

Shadow Creature is a 3D object consisting of a wire structure that contains three black and white images, printed on acetate. Some sections of the structure are mobile.

The images are inverted photographs of three movements from a performance that I developed during a residency at the Walcot Chapel at the end of January 2018.

​In this performance, I worked with my own body and the light that was coming through a window located behind me, to project expressive images on the floor, with the idea of later using them as material to create other pieces, like this one.
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At the moment of completing this piece, I was interested in experimenting with different possibilities to present my work and in how these might allow the audience to experience and engage in different ways with a particular piece. When I created this object, I was exploring non linear ways of presenting a narrative, while at the same time, I played with concepts like space, movement and perception.
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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