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LINES IN SPACE,
LINES IN TIME
María Marco Such
During the Baroque period art was characterised by its close relationship between
space and time. Space was conceived as a continuum between the spectator and the
work, a single environment where fiction and reality held hands. Time, for its part,
was given form in the various symbols that expressed everything from its passing to
its immobility, in the waste of the “ Vanitas “, in the lost gazes of the sacred images.
Formally, thereis no similarity between Baroque Art and the work of Rafael Carrió,
the overloaded exuberance of Baroque is at odds with the sharp clean shapes of our
contemporary sculptor. But Rafael, just like his colleagues of the 17th century, draws
in space and travels through time, creating suggestive images of a deep beauty, born
of concrete, iron and wood.
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