Mischa Doorenweerd

Residency programme: March 2018
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Although for Mischa the residency period primary consisted on a research about new ways of working and rethinking the role of the artist, among his experimentation a kind of collection of objects has taken shape. A series of sculptural exercises in which he has incorporated traces and forces of Blancás surroundings.

Using as a binder such an urban matter as cement, Mischa uses it to contain natural elements as well as artificial, acting as fosiles in which merging the trace of civilization as well as the natural forces.

When surrounding the body of a cactus with a big cement mass and then molding it, the vacuum is what creates the sculpture. Copying with wags the sedimentation produced in a rock, incorporating to cement masses little found elements like a sea snell or a plastic lizard, tying them to a stone and exhibing all these elements among real fossils and crystals created by the nature, are some of the experiments that Mischa shows as constellations spread on the pavement. Other pieces contain imperceptible elements like the sand with blood of the bullring or water from the river, building the object by recent history and the daily life that surrounds us.

The ensemble here presented proposes to look at human and nature creation in an ironic horizontal perspective.
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“Slow Party” the multisensorial experience of this Saturday at Centro Negra -AADK Spain- in the Open Studios.
This month, two of the artists in residence of AADK Spain work in collaboration,  to create an atmosphere which recontextualizes elements of the surroundings generating a multisensorial experience that have named “slow party”.