LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Daniel Agra
An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape @ europe. com
Visual artist Daniel Agra ' s work accomplishes an insightful exploration of direct experience to walk the viewers through a multilayered experience, inducing them to elaborate personal associations and intepretations. His Sstyle rejects any conventional classifications and is marked with freedom as well as coherence, while encapsulating a careful attention to composition and balance. One of the most impressive aspects of Agra ' s work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of transforming a reality into an alternate one: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to hid stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
Hello Daniel and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your multifaceted background? Are there any experiences that have particularly influenced your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
Many thanks LandEscape for thinking of me for this edition, it is an honor. Since I was a child I have been attracted by the art and creation of all disciplines and whenever I could attend any art exhibitions in general and photography in particular, I deed. Nature and the urban were always my predilections. It was then my interest arose and when I got my first analog camera I started to experiment for myself with photography. With the appearance of new digital technologies and coinciding with a complicated economic stage, I decided for a while to give up the discipline. In this last stage of analogue I started a particular evolution towards something more artistic, more experimental and conceptual, developing my first optical filters for a series of light painting based on a study of light and its decomposition, looking for similarity with abstract art. A few years ago I felt the need to retransmit from the visual, but with a different perspective based on the theme that had always attracted me, nature and urban. From this day to day in