LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Daniel Agra
Lives and works in La Coruña, Spain
An artist ' s statement
F rom an early age I have been attracted to exhibitions and books of painting, photography and art in general, although my first real experience with photography began at the age of 20, when, with my first savings I bought my reflex camera. Always on a personal and self-taught level, I began to explore this universe passing through different stages, including one in 2005, but by circumstances I decided to stop for some time. In 2010 I felt that I could contribute something more, it was then when my personal environment knowing what I had done, I was convinced to make known my work.
For me photography is a language of its own, a personal perspective with thematic diversity. My preference is nature, urban environments, anything conceptual but above all I try to tell stories, portray ideas that come into my head, look for images to questions, beliefs, thoughts that I pose, and lastly develop concepts through photography.
Abyssurbs
Reasonably big territory, densely occupied by living, sentient beings and crowded architecture that humans build their lives around, according to a social and economic structure, as well as their cultural activity. A sometimes hypocritical, false and reprehensible anthill where our so called daily deeds actually turn it into an abyss of the human condition, perpetuating the lack of a sensible side, of all that makes us close to each other, everything that is warm, good-natured and, in some cases, even depriving us from our individuality... nobody looks at you in the eye anymore... thousand of beings living together in solitude...
Asimetrías Urbanas
A geometric urban vision that rises up through discordant development, creating spaces of apparent chaos and random growth, that in themselves generate a sense of non harmonious misshapenness, a lack of proportion and balance, resulting in fascinating symmetry.
El Jardín de Entelequia
Both what is synthetic and artificial is omnipresent in our daily lives and has devastating effects among us and the ecosystem, its consequences last thousands of years before they disappear … why not imagine nature’ s rebellion … why not imagine the transmutation of matter.
The garden of Entelechy is the prelude of the metamorphosis that contradicts the laws of nature. What once was inert begins a journey whose final destination is its existence as a living being.