Toni Giró - Solid that melts into air
By Charlotte Stace
The exhibition “Solid that melts in the air” by Catalan artist Toni Giró draws from three decades of the artist’s work. It intentionally sidesteps a straightforward retrospective, and instead establishes a range of visual dialogues between pieces to invite reflection on the evolving language of art.
Giró’s work is rooted in sculpture and focuses on the image located in the space - activated by the three-dimensional devices he constructs. He traces, with a critical perspective on the present and often using irony, the various historical impasses and their interchanges of meaning in order to highlight the limits of contemporaneity.
His practice spans a range of media including sculpture, installation, photography, video and drawing. He integrates the proposals of conceptual art - developed in Catalunya in the seventies - to ground his work in the present day. Thus, the exhibition explores the fissures of contemporaneity without losing sight of the conceptual theories that opened up a new range of possibilities to us years ago.