35,76 m2 - Mesured silence: Gerard Fernandez Rico - Black Room
A collaboration with Tamara Kreisler Gallery
35,76 refers to the exact surface area of the black room at Galería Isolina Arbulu, where this exhibition takes place in collaboration with Galería Tamara Kreisler. The title encapsulates the core of Gerard Fernández Rico’s practice: measurement as language, where dimensions, materials, and space become active components of meaning.
Rooted in graffiti and shaped by years spent in abandoned industrial environments, Gerard’s work emerges from spaces stripped of productivity yet rich in aesthetic potential. These contexts inform an ongoing investigation into industrial materials and the structural systems—visible and hidden—that support the built environment.
His studio functions as a laboratory where materials such as epoxy resins, fluorescent lights, and automotive paints are removed from their original function and reconfigured through processes of trial and error. By suspending utility, Gerard allows form, color, and presence to take precedence.
Through these transformations, his work subtly questions the normalized misuse of materials and the acceptance of inefficient systems. In 35,76, the works do not simply occupy the space; they measure and activate it, proposing an austere and precise visual language in which aesthetics emerge from the industrial and the overlooked.
