Nicolás Combarro
Bio
Nicolás Combarro (A Coruña, 1979) is a photographer and independent curator. He had individual exhibitions at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), the CGAC (Sgo de Compostela), the MARCO (Vigo), the Palexco (A Coruña), the Institut Français (Madrid), the OCEMX (Mexico City), the Solo Galerie (Paris), the Moriarty Gallery (Madrid), the Kwanhoon Gallery (Seoul), the Taché Gallery (Barcelona) and the PABLO Gallery (Manila).
He made the feature film Alberto García-Alix. La línea de sombra, premiered at the San Sebastián International Festival and awarded at festivals in Guadalajara and Toulouse.
He won scholarships and prizes, the 20th Fotopress scholarship from La Caixa, from the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, the Laureate from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Saab Prize for the best exhibition of the Festival Off de Photoespaña, the First Prize for INJUVE photography.
He published Interventions, Architecture and resistance and Arquitectura Spontanea.
Statement
The work of Nicolás Combarro establishes a dialogue with the processes of transformation of the built space. This approach is carried out from two axes that run in parallel: the investigation and documentation of the architectural contexts, and the interaction with the constructions and materials selected in each series.
It uses different methodologies; direct intervention through painting, sculpture or light, studio work with collage or drawing, and photography as a bridge. A hybridization of disciplines that come together for a transformation of the architectural form, of its memory and potential, of the landscapes where it is inserted and of the people and construction contexts.
In the process of revealing its formal base, possibilities are generated to reflect on the ways of building, inhabiting and therefore activating spaces. Operation that reveals in architecture the structures, traces and possibilities offered by a new look.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
