Art characterizes us as a species. It is in the essence of our nature. Before writing, we already knew how…
Isaac Cordal (Pontevedra, 1974) works with sculpture, installations and photography in public and
exhibition spaces. His work has been marked by the places where he has lived, such as London
and Brussels. He currently lives in Bilbao.
One of his best known works is the nomadic project called Cement Eclipses, which consists of
ephemeral and permanent urban interventions built with small figurative sculptures with which he
reflects on modern society. From the beginning he works with the same stereotypical character: a
middle-aged, bald, uniformed man in a grey suit.
The public space plays a leading role, as the chosen location is a fundamental part of his work.
Semantic spaces that confuse the scale, those in which we perceive the passage of time, our
decadence, that speak to us of our own imperfection.
He uses humour and irony in a measured, ambiguous way, at the limits of drama, at that point
where you don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Cement Eclipses began as a nomadic project in public space in 2006 and is still in progress. To
date it has made interventions in cities such as Berlin, London, Bogota, Brussels, Zagreb, Vienna,
Taipei, Milan, New York, Amsterdam, Nantes, San José, Hanoi, etc.
