Sebastían Bayo
Artist
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.
exposicion
Thinking the city
The call “Thinking the City” calls for emerging artists who, through their work, reflect and dialogue on the contemporary city, offering unique perspectives on their real experiences, research and desires, from a critical awareness. The initiative aims to give voice to visions that offer 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
After carefully analysing each proposal received, we are pleased to announce the names of the artists selected in the first call for emerging artists,
‘Thinking the city’.
There has been a very high standard and it has not been easy to make the decision.
The shortlisted artists are (in alphabetical order):
Carme Aliaga Perera
Daniel Barrio
Sebastián Bayo
Paula Botella Andreu
Solange Contreras Pavez
Julia Grunberg
Stefanie Herr
Delfina Inés Giacomo y Wanda Acevedo
Rodrigo Moreno
Mina Nogueira
Chema Rodríguez
Dayana Trigo
Invernadero The Sibarist
San Lorenzo, 11
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.