Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Ivan Juarez
lives and works in Mexico
An artist ' s statement
A s a practicing architect and artist with specialization in landscape architecture , my main field of interest lies in the relationship between art and function and how this connection can be expressed on the built and natural environment ; I am interested on integrating the disciplines of public art , architecture , design , and landscape . The projects created in my studio explore new ways of relating space with society ; projects which I have conceived them in reason and function of its physical context and could not be generated in other place than in the one of their conception and realization . Since its conception , my artistic process is closely joined to the surroundings that lodged it , in which I develop a daily connection with the context in which I involve local people , applying local concepts , materials and techniques . For me every art work has always been a constant search , in each new project I want to be able to discover and experiment new possibilities . In this way each project has a special character that gives me diverse options as a window that opens and drives me to another . My work started with the will of creating spaces from which I could reflect , research , and act in different fields of contemporary culture . From the beginning I have never conceived architecture just as a specialization , but as a wider vision of understanding and questioning the environment that surrounds us , in which every project can enrich itself through different views and disciplines . The work created in my studio doesn ’ t start only from architecture but is nourished by various sources : cinema , music , dance , painting , or literature are , in many occasions , what give guidelines to my spaces . My art production explores new aspects to redefine the borders between the contemporary city and its environment by creating new hybrid landscapes , as open interventions that leave spaces for new encounters . In this way , the pieces dialogue with the landscape , generating new ways of coexistence between the natural and the built surroundings , creating new readings that establish a dialogue between nature , man , and his space .
In this perspective , I have produced a series of artistic works , conceiving them as interactive and sensitive pieces that explore the natural environment through my personal experience . A series of interventions created in different contexts and scales in which the relationship with the environment is the essence of the work . These works have been conceived in United States , Taiwan , Italy , Switzerland , Austria , Spain , Norway , Portugal , Brazil , Senegal , Peru and Mexico and they have been awarded by multiple international institutions .
Ivan Juarez