This work consists of a series of semi-destroyed classical plaster columns resting directly on the ground. Instead of reaching up towards the sky or serving as pillars of a building, they become here a literal staging of the title that gives them their name: Horizonte roto (Broken Horizon). As in other projects that he has authored, Gutierrez creates in this work a reflection on monuments, time, memory, and failure. If constructions are supposed to have the function of enduring, they are in fact destined for destruction. Entropy is a condition of even the most sumptuous and monumental works.
However, the artist investigates how the age of time affects not only the material world, but also the symbolic. A monument or a construction that seeks to commemorate a victory or an important event in a given historical moment is likely to easily disappear in the future, either due to the ruin of its materials or because the meaning of what it represents can be lost.
At the same time, Gutierrez creates with Horizonte roto a commentary on the age of time in relation to history and memory. Like this column, our knowledge of past events is always fragmentary and inexorably crisscrossed with loss, destruction, and oblivion.
EKA, November 2019
http://cynthiagutierrez.com/coreografia-del-colapso/
https://www.scoa.org/exhibitions/2017/persisting-monuments
https://calosa.mx/wp-content/s/2017/04/Cata%CC%81logo-Roca-lastre-polvo.pdf
This work consists of a series of semi-destroyed classical plaster columns resting directly on the ground. Instead of reaching up towards the sky or serving as pillars of a building, they become here a literal staging of the title that gives them their name: Horizonte roto (Broken Horizon). As in other projects that he has authored, Gutierrez creates in this work a reflection on monuments, time, memory, and failure. If constructions are supposed to have the function of enduring, they are in fact destined for destruction. Entropy is a condition of even the most sumptuous and monumental works.
