Rodrigo Bruna's - Urban Reconstructions

Urban Reconstructions is the continuation of a material and theme that has characterized Chilean artist Rodrigo Bruna's latest projects. It examines the relation between bread and the landscape, and the fragility and mutability that both elements experience. By using bread as a matrix and fire as a graphical resource, the artist engraves and reconstructs possible typologies of the landscape, typologies which now arise from his native country's earthquake history.  

The installation considers a mural installation which reconstructs, after the 1922 earthquake, a street of the northern city of Copiapó, Chile. The project consists of 300 modules of toasted bread using an area of around 142 cm by 298 cm. On the other side, juxtaposed, 4 fragments of the same image are reproduced with toasted bread crumbs on steel plates of 28 cm by 44 cm. Finally, this set of pieces is a reflection of silence and containment which floods the landscape after the devastating action of nature.

Exhibit Runs: June 26 - August 10, 2008.

Venue : Newhouse  Gallery, 1000 Richmond Terrace