use paper accounting manuscripts and balance sheets to sculpt a city made of material remnants. porcelain gourds, wooden supports, and iron structures fuse to form a contemporary metropolis. The result is a multi-faceted urban vision that speaks to different faces of the city in today’s world.
project name eutropia tectonic sounds, a collaboration with Luisa Pastor from Alicante and Juan Cantizzani, emerged from winning scholarships at the Center for the Contemporary Creation of Andalusia and DKV. Cantizzani and Pastor Collective commit three months to develop the project in central Córdoba, advancing the center’s mission to support experimental art in a changing urban landscape.
The core aim is to produce a sculpture installation that functions as a reflective hub, with an ex profeso moment hosted at the center. The city is treated as a perpetual work in progress, and sound will be an integral dimension. The project seeks to document its evolution, creating both visual and auditory witnesses to its development and to other cities contained within the same urban fabric, said Pastor.
“Our eutropia tectonic sounds project centers on a piece created from handwritten accounting paper sourced from a 1907 Jerez de la Frontera wine company to form a city built from accounting sheets. This remarkable ensemble of manuscript paper boxes becomes a poetic method that the artists have explored over recent years.
rattle the paper
The intention is to move that paper through a sequence of analog processes—sensors, fans, and motors—that grant the work its own voice and invite varied readings on the globalization of the modern metropolis.
Isidro Sanchez Cantizzani collaborates with the Pastor Collective as the writer and producer of the recording, while Ana Susan contributes as photographer.
The project delves into both visual and auditory representations of a city in translation, tracing movement between places as dictated by etymology. The city thus becomes an abstract entity, a space delivered to audiences as a timeless urban panorama.
Andalusia Center for Contemporary Creation describes the approach as a way to reveal subtle physical aspects of elements and their motion, creating a dialogue between visual and sound fields that supports multiple readings and reflections on urban globalization in the contemporary era.
Focusing on the construction of fictional universes that provoke contemplation about the present, Luisa Pastor was recognized with the Ciutat de Alcoy Llançadora Creation Award in Art Studies in 2020 for a project titled Everything Solid Evaporates, exhibited at the IVAM-CADA Museum in Alcoy in December of the previous year.
The scholarship for Artists under 45 includes three months at the Center for Contemporary Creation and a grant of 8,000 euros. The work will become part of the Contemporary Art Collection curated by Curro Crespo, and the exhibition funded by DKV Insurance will be displayed within the building in late April.