Sebastián Bayo (1990), trained in art from a young age and studied architecture in Madrid, where he took part in the Micras collective. After winning awards for his final year project, he worked in London and began his artistic career in 2016 with the exhibition ‘Expressions’ at the Crown House Gallery. He returns to Spain to balance his career in architecture and art, consolidating an anthropocentric approach in his exhibitions. He has presented works in Vitoria, Madrid and Barcelona and continues his training in sculpture, being selected for important awards and exhibitions.
The call “Pensar la Ciudad” (Thinking the City) called on emerging artists to reflect and dialogue on the contemporary city through their work, offering unique perspectives on their real experiences, research and desires, from a critical awareness. The initiative sought to give voice to visions that offered a new reading of urban landscapes and societies.
We have had an exceptional jury:
asun rodríguez montejano. Comisaria
Elba Benítez. Galería Elba Benítez
Carlos Garaicoa. Artista
Javier Aparicio. Galería El Chico
Paco de Blas. Gestor Cultural
Carlos Alvarez. Editor. Piece with Artist
Silvia Hengstenberg. ART U READY y The Sibarist
The call “Pensar la Ciudad” (Thinking the City) called on emerging artists to reflect and dialogue on the contemporary city through their work, offering unique perspectives on their real experiences, research and desires, from a critical awareness. The initiative sought to give voice to visions that offered a new reading of urban landscapes and societies.
We have had an exceptional jury:
asun rodríguez montejano. Comisaria
Elba Benítez. Galería Elba Benítez
Carlos Garaicoa. Artista
Javier Aparicio. Galería El Chico
Paco de Blas. Gestor Cultural
Carlos Alvarez. Editor. Piece with Artist
Silvia Hengstenberg. ART U READY y The Sibarist
The iconic image of a city seen from above symbolises the human impact on the territory, highlighting the complexity of the relationship between the natural and the artificial. This binomial is questioned in the age of the Anthropocene, where industrialisation has extended human influence to every corner of the planet, integrating artificial materials into the geology. The work explores this dissolution of boundaries between nature and artifice through a system of tessellation that creates an urban and mineralogical landscape at the same time, with an organic and mutable form that reflects the transformation of the environment by human action. The piece, made of plaster and clay, symbolises this continuous terraforming.