Blasco uses digital photography and common building materials to assemble three-dimensional constructions that reconstruct interior spaces and outdoor environments culled from the artist’s personal New York cityscape.

Blasco combines architecture, photography and installation to explore themes of vision and perception in relation to physical experience. His work often references the realm of private or domestic space. Blasco normally begins by selecting one angle in a room or outdoors and then constructs a new space from the perspective of that vantage point. Though the distortions and emphases that Blasco orchestrates risk comparison with the actual streetscapes or rooms he’s re-creating, the resulting effect is a fragmentation of a single line of sight that is reminiscent of Cubist collages.

Blasco’s three dimensional sculptures result in an elliptical succession of multiple angles, producing a space that is at once recognizable and entirely new.

Blasco is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and many international museums.

Isidro Blasco’s 2009 exhibition ‘Shanghai at Last’ presents a series of interpretations of a physical experience of space from a number of vantage points, resulting in three-dimensional angular sculptures which almost intrude and expose a realm of private, domestic and public spaces.

After undertaking a series of residencies in Shanghai, Blasco describes himself as being ‘intrigued by new surroundings’, this intrigue has led to a plethora of constructions reminiscent of Cubist collages. After seen, experienced and digested, Shanghai’s alleyways, streetscapes and interiors are reconstructed and exposed.

Blasco fabricates a new perspective, transforming the spatial into the tactile, attempting to recollect a memory of a past experience and physical interaction. His sculptures assimilate visual elements of architecture and combine with Blasco’s profound memory of spaces.

‘Shanghai at Last’ is a putting together of the pieces, as he recalls and delves into his mental archive of unknown and inhabited space. ‘My three-dimensional sculptures result in an elliptical succession of multiple angles, producing a space that is at once recognizable and entirely new.’
(Isidro Blasco, New York, 2009)

Blasco uses digital photography and common building materials to assemble three-dimensional constructions that reconstruct interior spaces and outdoor environments. He combines architecture, photography and installation to explore themes of vision and perception in relation to physical experience.

Isidro Blasco is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art and many International Museums.