BUILD A NECESSARY PROBLEM

build a necessary problem
mechanical sculpture
closed dimensions 50 x 60 x 60 cm
open dimensions 50 x 200 x 200 cm

Constructing a necessary problem directs attention toward the concept of the dematerialization of architecture alongside the symbolic dismantling of the artistic apparatus. At the same time, it critically points to the idea of the museum as a temple, emphasized in the case of the Guggenheim by the idea that Frank Lloyd Wright was inspired by the ziggurats, temples, or dwellings of the gods in ancient Mesopotamia.
There is an expansive and reproductive vocation in pursuit of the museum brand in the dynamic international cultural industry, supported by the absurd role of containers that they still assign themselves today.
John Chandler and Lucy Lippard, in “The Dematerialization of Art,” point to 1945 as the turning point when the preponderance of the emotional and intuitive in the creative process gave way to the development of thought as the exclusive element in the construction of content in works of art. Chandler and Lippard justified this transition as the origin of the dematerialization of the object and identified the possible risk of the disintegration of criticism as we know it today.
With this piece, Eugenio Ampudia proposes another type of negotiation with space and a search for new symbolic articulations. Modernity and the concepts associated with it are subject to a process of dematerialization, connecting with the paradigm shift mentioned above and contemporary to that period.
The artist thus appeals to a sense of humor to examine Modernity from a more ironic perspective and, as is customary in Ampudia’s work, offers a revision and reinterpretation of art history and the position from which it has been recounted to us.