DESERTED CITY (2014-2017)

The Deserted City is a serie of sculptoric constructions in tribute to “GOG”, the book by Giovanni Papini, 1881-1956. 

ARCHITECTURAL AND ENIGMATIC. DRAMATIC. DARK. RAW. BALANCE. BRUTALIST. TIMELESS.

FASE I

the CAMEL

“Everything looked intect, as if all the citizens had left at the same time, unanimously, calmly, once and for all. Mass desertion, not destruction nor escape.”

MATERIAL: plywood, pigmented plaster, marble dust.
DIMENSIONS: 400 x 260 x 265 mm (LxWxH).
LIMITED EDITIONS: 1AP + 20 units.
 
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the LION

“I entered a maze of narrow, deserted, silent streets. No lights behind the windows nor under doors: not a single voice, no signs of life. Every exist was closed.”

MATERIAL: plywood, pigmented plaster, marble dust.
DIMENSIONS: 350 x 400 x 350 mm (LxWxH).
LIMITED EDITIONS: 1AP + 20 units.
 
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the HORSE

“No doors opened, nobody answered, no sound of steps, no dogs barking, no horse neighing, nothing broke that taciturn hallucination.”

MATERIAL: plywood, pigmented plaster, marble dust.
DIMENSIONS: 350 x 400 x 390 mm (LxWxH).
LIMITED EDITIONS: 1AP + 20 units.
 
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the DRAGON

“In Tokio, in San Frnacisco, in Berlin, I recall it as a terrifying nightmare, from whic perhaps I wouldn´t like to awake. And I feel punctured by wistful melancholy, by a great desire to see it again.”

MATERIAL: plywood, pigmented plaster, marble dust.
DIMENSIONS: 350 x 400 x 200 mm (LxWxH).
LIMITED EDITIONS: 1AP + 20 units.
 
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FASE II

the ship

“For many and long years I have lived, alone and in silence, under the great waters. I have inhabited all the seas, I have explored all the oceans, I have lowered all the abyss…”

MATERIAL: plywood, pigmented plaster, marble dust.
DIMENSIONS: 350 x 400 x 350 mm (LxWxH).
LIMITED EDITIONS: 1AP + 20 units.
 
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the dog

“I whistled again and the furious barkings answered me over the screams and complaints of the assaulted.”

MATERIAL: plywood, pigmented plaster, marble dust.
DIMENSIONS: 350 x 400 x 300 mm (LxWxH).
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the elephant

“A gigantic palace one mile on each side, with infinite galleries, endless corridors and halls, countless stairways and landing of vast proportions, well-distributed courtyards and subways…”

MATERIAL: plywood, pigmented plaster, marble dust.
DIMENSIONS: 350 x 400 x 390 mm (LxWxH).
LIMITED EDITIONS: 1AP + 20 units.
 
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the harem

“The atrium was deserted, it had no altars nor images but the walls were occupied every few meters by pyramid shaped confessionals, sealed and dark like sepulchres…”

MATERIAL: plywood, pigmented plaster, marble dust.
DIMENSIONS: 350 x 400 x 400 mm (LxWxH).
LIMITED EDITIONS: 1AP + 20 units.
 
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FASE II: COLOR

the ship

the DOG

the ELEPHANT

the HAREM

MATERIAL: plywood, pigmented plaster, marble dust.
LIMITED EDITIONS: 1AP + 20 units.
DESIGN, EXECUTION AND COPYRIGHT: Trinidad Salamanca & Pablo Párraga.
IMAGES: Las Ánimas

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