DOMESTICATED TRANSPARENCY
MAVA (Alcorcón, Spain)
Mar 7 – Sep 12, 2013

Magán exhibited a selection of recent works made between London and Madrid. The works are the result of research into space as a place mapped out by form.

Alongside his latest glass creations, he also exhibited a video series in which, by combining dynamic projected images onto static class, the artist insists on seeing colour as an accident, while not losing sight of its form and limits.

“In all the series presented in the exhibition, although more clearly in the so-called Exenta and Relieve series, the planes of colour created by the glass can be read in two ways. The most immediate reading is that of the limpid presence of the perfectly cut glass material; the second, which interests the artist even more (‘in reality I believe that light is the protagonist of my work’), is the gaze provoked by the effect of the light generated on the plane of colour. Light projects not only the blurred silhouette of the glass plate, but also the innate imperfections of a material that at first glance appears flawless. This duality of the solid element, which can be grasped and has a pure and perfect appearance (which is linked to the assumptions of minimalism), as opposed to the ethereal, diffuse in its extremes and at the same time full of imperfections arising from something that is quite the opposite (reminiscent of Joseph Albers’ 1920’s glass works), is of great interest to Magán, as it leads us to reflect upon the variations of light in space.”

– Cayón Gallery, 2012

Carlos Cruz-Diez wrote the introduction for the exhibitions’ catalogue which you can read here.