The Museo Francisco Sobrino, on the occasion of the exhibition Immaterial Architectures by David Magán, has published an extensive catalog that includes an essay written by the curator Osbel Suárez entitled “Immaterial Architectures or the Parody of a Title”. In addition, Magán’s proposal expands beyond the temporary room of the museum, making use of the catalog as one more exhibition support.
“Architecture is a ‘construction’, an artificial fact, an experience physical in nature that encourages a meeting place and the act of defining it as something immaterial could be considered, a priori, as a parody. How to make an architecture that is missing its most elemental principle? Overcoming the sense of this parody would give us a way to understand David Magán’s latest exhibition project.”
“[…] I am not completely sure if David Magán became a sculptor at the very start of his evolution as an artist (in the conventional sense of the term or in its heterodoxical expansion as defined by Krauss), but the exhibition in CAB allows us, at least, to definitively question Magán’s idea because his interests here are manifestly moving in another direction. A new way that is announced in the title and made concrete in various installations that explore -here, novelty- the many physical possibilities of cross lighting and added chromatic effects. Or LED light projections on primary colours and the exploration of complementary colours. The final work here is, also, an experience directly associated with the material nature of light.”
– Osbel Suárez. Immaterial Architectures or the Parody of a Title.