“Tenth lesson: Solids” Sergio Prego

An aesthetic essay in images, resulting from artistic practice as a laboratory of analysis of materiality, with the latter understood as a symbolic construction that holds up a large part of the mythologies that ground contemporary society. The session will consist of the projection of an essay in images connected to the concept of materiality. Plastic elements present in contemporary art will circulate in the essay, establishing relations and genealogies with different periods and fields. Attention will be drawn to aesthetic relations between representations of materiality that sustain the supposed objectivity of the conventions of the language of fields like the economy or technology, and other representations in fields intimately linked to the former but occupying a marginal position, such as the forms of representation of sexuality or scatology. Different manifestations from this second instance will be shown that, in their complexity, offer alternatives to the more established notion of materiality. From the core notion of materiality the essay will branch out in an arbitrary way as an open structure, into a scheme of plastic expressions.

Sergio Prego (San Sebastián 1969) lives and works in Bilbao. He is a plastic artist who works in different media around sculpture. He has held one-person shows in places like Galeria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Pallazo Delle Papesse, Sienna; Buchmann Galerie, Berlin; He has taken part in the Biennials of Singapore and Dojima River in Osaka. Together with other artists like Txomin Badiola and Jon Mikel Euba, he created the Primer Proforma 2010.