Antonio Guerra
Comportamiento para un Simulacro
22 June - 28 June 2020



His work reveals an interdisciplinary approach to the photographic medium, where sculpture, photography and installation merge to reflect on the processes of transformation of the landscape and our perception of it through the image. Nature, man and his footprint are themes that interest him as an author.

In recent years he has explored and investigated the aesthetic possibilities of space, natural environments and everyday scenarios, which are intervened and photographed as a storyline and related to the individual as the main agent in the alteration of the environment. These actions have two intentions: first, they invite us to question the landscape as an ideological construction and seek an approach to nature and concern for the action of man. And at the same time, they seek to explore the landscape and its symbolism, through concepts such as illusion and reality or memory and transformation. Given the uses and the way in which we alter nature, by approaching it in an artificial way, I intend to highlight this constant abuse, where the landscape is recreated and disappears, underlining this fragility of the environment in a nature full of artifice.

In the project we are presenting, "Behaviour for a Simulacrum", he investigates the relationship between the action of man in the environment and his link with photography as an object to be intervened. To do so, he manipulates the work itself with the intention of extending the limits of photography, creating a relationship between objects, the environment and the photographic medium. . Resorting to intervention and actions in the landscape and the manipulation of the photographic work itself, creating a dialogue between reality and fiction, landscape and representation. By combining different disciplines (collage, installation, expanded photography) he tries to discover what was implicit in the environment through the attributes of the photographic medium.

In this way, in the same location, we can play with the way in which the real, the represented and the imagined landscape is perceived, like a game of mirrors, where the environment is in danger of becoming a simulacrum of itself.

Text by:
Galeria Marisa Marimon



Antonio Guerra (b. 1983, Zamora, Spain) is a spanish visual artist living in Madrid.

The “Comportamiento para un Simulacro” project explore the different layers present in the natural environment and its visual imaginary, to question the landscape as an ideological construct and searching for an approach to nature and concern about human activity.