Eduardo Valderrey
Barcelona-born Eduardo Valderrey is a multidisciplinary artist who uses the urban environment and architecture as a way of reflecting on both the city and identity. His fusion of sculpture, photography and video provokes a visual defragmentation of space and architecture. He creates sculptural pieces dominated almost entirely by oblique lines and a certain sense of imbalance. Photographs of places of transition, uninhabited and in the process of transformation, phantom zones that wander between anonymity and existence, and which, through sculpture, are broken down behind a three-dimensional architectural grid.
In the nineties he began to work with photography, using his own work as a support that integrated image and space. With his 1996 Barcelona work "hortus" he began to explore the different possibilities of using the sculptural space as a support for projection.
Since 1997 and thanks to various scholarships and grants, he has carried on his project beyond Spain: "Le Jardín" (Paris 1997 / Ministry of Culture), "Round Trip" (NewYork 1998 / Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Triangle Artist's Workshop), Residency (Boston 1999 / MacDowell Colony), "Sur" (Rome 1999 / Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Residency (Madrid 2000 / Casa de Velazquez), "Borders" (Texas / Generalitat de Catalunya), "OverPass" (CAM / ArtOmi /Triangle Org). In 2008 he obtained the Fundación Norte creation scholarship and in 2011 he received the first-ever Inund'ART prize (Girona).
Valderrey graduated in fine arts from the University of Barcelona in 1988, and he combines his artistic career with teaching, in particular, giving courses and workshops on the concept of the image and its graphic process.
He has works in many different museums, foundations and private collections such as Madrid’s Reina Sofía, the Tarragona Museum of Modern Art, the Triángle Artist's Workshop Collection in New York, ArtOmi in New York, and the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome.
He has carried out three projects for our gallery: "Outborders" (2006), "Aerópolis" (2010) and "DISurbia, la piel olvidada" ("DISurbia, the forgotten skin", 2014).
