FOD

The need to build is inevitably linked to the human being. There is no period in the history of mankind where man has not felt the need for a shelter, a hut or a place to “settle in”.

In recent years, FOD explores the relationship between materials, space, support and colour, revisiting the aesthetic principles of the Bauhaus, evolving from essential references in construction-deconstruction-destruction, such as Gordon Matta-Clarck or Imi Knoebel. He builds a de-architecture, conceiving spaces that make us reflect on the “city”, a city with spaces in constant urban renewal. With this game of deconstruction of painting, he tries to articulate and define places or spaces, like a cartographer of the suburbs, of uninhabited spaces. In these works there is a constant look at the evolution of a geometric line that starts with Mondrian or Malevich and passes through Palazuelo or Sarah Morris. From these sources, matter occupies more and more space in both painting and sculpture, and, from memory, which serves as the genesis for his work, and from the search for an infinite number of materials typical of the construction industry (any material can be used to make a shelter), he investigates new ways for a work in which architecture, memory and transience become protagonists, going beyond the aesthetics of the visual, of pure materiality.

The assemblages and sculptures are the result of the compilation of all kinds of materials, from corrugated sheets to cardboard and reused wood, trying to fit together perfectly to give them another function different from the one for which they were made and where intentional chance is part of the construction of the work.

FOD (Francisco Olivares Díaz) was born in Puerto Lumbreras in 1973 and has created several public art installations such as: “Nave invertida” in Tabacalera Madrid on the occasion of the exhibition “Tentativas para agotar un espacio”, “Zona de obras-Chabolas de lujo” in Cartagena, “Refugio para un paseante” in the Fundación Cerezales de León or the work exhibited next to the Cathedral of Murcia, entitled Estructura Nómada.