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Rafael Carrió, by generational appointment but, above all, as a result of a personal
option, has tended towards sculpture linked to constructivism, incorporating, on
occasion, resources of light, optical illusions, unpredictable effects, thus asserting
an area of reality to visual experimentation, with the intention of establishing an
new existential bridge between man, his surroundings, his cultural roots and the
universe itself. Through the environments he creates, he wakes up the power of the
public’s imagination at the same time as he offers a gratifying area.

Rafael Carrió’s conceptual sculpture purifies any figurative reference using a
geometric language of musical rhythms and brings together, with unquestionable
expertise, the expressiveness of the forms thanks to his command of the material.
Thus, the solidness of concrete, the strength of iron or the malleability of wood
become flexible under his creative vigour; the different materials interrelating in a
harmonious dialogue, to pleasantly surprising visual and tactile effects.

His sculptural world examines the strengths of nature in depth, extracting the
nobility of real things, but also penetrating the world of sensations and of evocations
of an allegoric or commemorative nature, transmitting some generous emotions
from the expressiveness of these masses.

The research and discovery of aesthetically satisfying forms and masses, whether
as individual entities, integrated in space or in specific architectural surroundings,
are shown in this exhibition as an uninterrupted constant in the progressive rise of
Rafael Carrió’s already extensive artistic evolution.

Texto Catálogo “Vía Sinóptica”. Exposición Centre d’Art L’Estació, Dénia. Abril–2005

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