ART-REVIEW:Nicolás Combarro-Interventions

The recent years I have noted that the exhibition at Mep (Maison Européenne de la Photographie) have a stark imbalance. From the two or three exhibitions that are on presentation (depending on the space) , one is always good or excellent, while other or others are always unparalleled bad, I really cannot explain it. In any case, we will start with the least-bad photo exhibition, “Interventions” with works by Nicolás Combarro, a Spanish artist that he is using photography as a means of registration to capture the interventions he makes in unique architectural spaces, transforming them through a personal mythology and image stacking. Both the pure architectural framing and the artistic practices (painting, sculpture, installation) he uses, these places are transformed to new spaces, which the artist captures in large photographic formats, allowing the viewer to enter both in the photo and the original space, since the artist chooses to keep a piece of it intact, and browse them with the curiosity of a child trying to discover that and what has not been revealed to him.Thus, the viewer, through the artist’s encouragement, the pure colors (blue-yellow or purple), the even clearer geometric shapes, as well as the curating of the exhibition, becomes a traveler of detail.-Efi Michalarou