Rosa Llinás

Residency programme : June – July 2016

June 2016

Rosa Llinás is architect and painter, currently creating images of elements y deconstruction process.
The organicity of the mountain and the deterioration process of the upper part of the old town of Blanca, in contrast with the straight lines of the modern architecture, have driven to Llinás to decompose, through drawing, elements in which she finds a formal beauty.

In this month she is making drafts and sketches to make pictorial work to place in the ruins around and observe its process of integration through a simultaneous deterioration.

July 2016

Deconstruction

Rosa interweaves the gaze of an architect and a painter. The installation reflects the evolution of her work in this period and her diverse approaches. A there and back journey that moves between the bird eye view and the close observation of the details.
Llinás was attracted by the relationship between the rocks of the Solán range and the ruins of the architecture: the integration of traditional construction in the landscape, which with ageing generates a bigger mimesis, as if it is an organic process. This highlights the distancing of modern architecture within the environment.

Llinás transfers this process of degradation to painting, creating a series of canvases on which is portrayed a robust and organic object (such as the surrounding architecture) which decomposes through the series.

As an architect why would she be more interested in the degradation than in the construction? Llinás relates better to the re-creation which painting allows than to the planning involved in architecture. While the first requires a listening, the second is normally an imposition. These issues provoke in Llinás a practice that consists of stopping instead of making. Inhabit the spaces, observe them for the time needed before imposing a new shape. Maybe this is the indispensable exercise to transform our surroundings into a place that embraces rather than parasitizing them.