https://carlosricoy.cargo.site Carlos Ricoy Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:41:35 +0000 https://carlosricoy.cargo.site en https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/WORKS Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:41:35 +0000 Carlos Ricoy https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/WORKS https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2025 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:41:09 +0000 Carlos Ricoy https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2025 Chance, GeneratingWood, concrete, wheels, screws, washers, clamps, construction tape, fans, hand fans, markers, acrylic, oil stick, Fabriano Academia 200 gsm paper roll, 150 × 1000 cmVariable dimensions <img width="1429" height="2000" width_o="1429" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af4f0c286ab70c7087231b06a5b0d14c32bd98d64839035605efb44672f454c8/_DSC9617.jpg" data-mid="236836808" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af4f0c286ab70c7087231b06a5b0d14c32bd98d64839035605efb44672f454c8/_DSC9617.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de70760ad50ddf6ac3a4da15e551d2d173ed4bc0648dec763189a0855bcf9a03/DSC01679.JPG" data-mid="236836809" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de70760ad50ddf6ac3a4da15e551d2d173ed4bc0648dec763189a0855bcf9a03/DSC01679.JPG" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1128c21bb9d432bf37e220fec50af60548a39c3bcecddb88f51f541b2e1085c0/_DSC9089.jpg" data-mid="236836810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1128c21bb9d432bf37e220fec50af60548a39c3bcecddb88f51f541b2e1085c0/_DSC9089.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/370abd857fff7470536be225924416fa0b8ef1e192d8b01d6a00387b44565056/_DSC9608.jpg" data-mid="236836811" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/370abd857fff7470536be225924416fa0b8ef1e192d8b01d6a00387b44565056/_DSC9608.jpg" />Pictures 1, 3 and 4 by Jeremy Knowles Chance, generating continues the trajectory initiated with the performance Wind Walk, where walking guided by the wind became a poetic gesture to break with the functional logics of urban space. In this new stage, the work moves into the exhibition space as a participatory installation, using chance and human / non-human interaction to question the frameworks of control that structure our societies. Rooted in a critique of Western technological and social systems—built on rationality, efficiency, and binary order—the project explores the cultural difficulty of embracing unpredictability as a vital part of existence. The installation consists of wooden structures framing a large sheet of paper on the floor and wall, where hanging markers are set in motion by air currents generated by visitors using tools provided in the space. The resulting drawing is shaped by countless variables, the strength and direction of the wind, the presence and proximity of participants, even the tilt of the markers, turning the work into a collective act of creation. Over time, the paper becomes a physical record of shared experience, where author, audience, and environment merge, and the wind itself becomes a collaborator in resisting the dominance of human logic and control. Squatkit 3000 Premium Trolley, beer crate, toolboxes, monitor, headphones, stereo video, color, 00:01 min Variable measures <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80dcdf818fd26d06047ae07d72ea0932b64c79d75376dd2a8a303204fbe6008e/IMG_3006.JPG" data-mid="236837011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80dcdf818fd26d06047ae07d72ea0932b64c79d75376dd2a8a303204fbe6008e/IMG_3006.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8535d0368160ea46be5e5807f78e3f6c32ec0cfbc12d3195acac49cfd317f50/IMG_3010.JPG" data-mid="236837014" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8535d0368160ea46be5e5807f78e3f6c32ec0cfbc12d3195acac49cfd317f50/IMG_3010.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08f8f1e979ac89a31b83232229c1b5a7d23c713c2987a9051aef3ae2709b51bd/IMG_3012-2.JPG" data-mid="236837016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08f8f1e979ac89a31b83232229c1b5a7d23c713c2987a9051aef3ae2709b51bd/IMG_3012-2.JPG" />SquatKit 3000 Premium activates the mechanisms of capitalism triggered when a space is squatted. What begins as a gesture of resistance quickly becomes a desirable commodity in the cultural market. By adopting the aesthetics of squatting—long associated with anti-authoritarian movements—the installation raises an unsettling question: is it still possible to escape the cycles of absorption and revalorization that sustain late capitalism? Rather than simply pointing out the irony of a system that turns its opposition into trend, the work invites us to reconsider the relationship between space, power, and legitimacy. Who has the right to occupy, define, and reshape the urban landscape? If squatting, once a radical act, now feeds the very dynamics of speculation and exclusion it opposed, where can true disruption be found? Has resistance itself become just another currency in the economy of cultural production? https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2024 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:40:24 +0000 Carlos Ricoy https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2024 Wind Catcher 1, 2 and 3Wires, textile, screws, packing rings, tape, wood, metal, rope, markers, paper and concreteVariable measures <img width="5712" height="4284" width_o="5712" height_o="4284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9672da6f649544ad0f4eac43e40f0f38b145560557065624b24c62b38b9cae53/IMG_7028.jpg" data-mid="236835336" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9672da6f649544ad0f4eac43e40f0f38b145560557065624b24c62b38b9cae53/IMG_7028.jpg" /> <img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2f38bc44fa05ce255039c9fefff87641a51d841a43098e7e8b0b146162c5686/IMG_7023.jpg" data-mid="236835338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2f38bc44fa05ce255039c9fefff87641a51d841a43098e7e8b0b146162c5686/IMG_7023.jpg" /> <img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/589ee5136653cb05e1bff4f73c8872dc4f778d110d920d76ed5350469472bf1a/IMG_7020.jpg" data-mid="236835339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/589ee5136653cb05e1bff4f73c8872dc4f778d110d920d76ed5350469472bf1a/IMG_7020.jpg" /> <img width="5712" height="4284" width_o="5712" height_o="4284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46084b11130848804b5ce9a5a296e85697152a3d06dc9d2253abbc7ee7fd237d/IMG_7017.jpg" data-mid="236835340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46084b11130848804b5ce9a5a296e85697152a3d06dc9d2253abbc7ee7fd237d/IMG_7017.jpg" />The series of wind catchers emerged from couple months of experimentation and seminars at Floating University. The three sculptures enter into a dialogue with a constant, unpredictable force of this place: the wind. Throughout the exhibition, they collaborate with the wind’s chance movements, creating a unique drawing that records this encounter. This process invites us to reconsider how we can embrace chance and unpredictability, forces beyond human logic and control, and allow them to shape new ways of creating and being. It asks how we might inhabit the world not only through control, but by opening ourselves to what surrounds us, making space for the unforeseen to participate. Wind WalkVideo, Stereo, ColorVariable loophttps://vimeo.com/920482771?share=copy <img width="5453" height="3635" width_o="5453" height_o="3635" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/026eefa6de6b696529a2ebec4dd1fe030ccf95226ab1051060b2def7749bb991/DSC01523.jpg" data-mid="236835839" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/026eefa6de6b696529a2ebec4dd1fe030ccf95226ab1051060b2def7749bb991/DSC01523.jpg" /> Wind Walk and Wind Drawinds 4, 5 and 6 on view at KunstHalle Berlin Weissensee DoppelgangerCollaborative project in the seminar Inner Worlds Interspaces Outer Bodies by Viron Erol Vert Scaffolding, print on textile, zip ties, eyeletsVariable measures <img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f24c7e55e99795905912b84d8159a8ed84b9f581bd2d4ce5cbf27f6715ab16f9/_DSC8309.jpg" data-mid="236836262" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f24c7e55e99795905912b84d8159a8ed84b9f581bd2d4ce5cbf27f6715ab16f9/_DSC8309.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/247be38f8482c5307d0f7583b2594ab5d50df75adcf367cca54a4b68ce1fec05/_DSC8335.jpg" data-mid="236836317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/247be38f8482c5307d0f7583b2594ab5d50df75adcf367cca54a4b68ce1fec05/_DSC8335.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/780bad1b51a464f11a14e811469c370a24290a5b45d3b80626b7972114c5f9dc/_DSC8411.jpg" data-mid="236836374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/780bad1b51a464f11a14e811469c370a24290a5b45d3b80626b7972114c5f9dc/_DSC8411.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d89a25e1261f064dcee09a5fa86c59d9a1de199494a1dec1fe1637278517875/_DSC8366.jpg" data-mid="236836431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d89a25e1261f064dcee09a5fa86c59d9a1de199494a1dec1fe1637278517875/_DSC8366.jpg" /> Photographies by Jeremy KnowlesSince ancient times the door has assumed strong symbolism, mostly related to rites of passage, crossing and transition from one place - or state of being - and another.The architectural installation Doppelganger focuses with irony and playfulness on the relationality between the “main entrance” and the “back door” of KHB Weissensee. With curious spirit, challenging hierarchies of power, we propose to look anew at the marginal and see how “passing through a back door” can act as a catalyst for creating alternate futures, unexpected outcomes or changes of scenery.In an imaginative play, a visual “changements de caractére”, the main entrance of KHB Weissensee is replicated on fabric - maintaining its original dimensions - and installed by the back door of the university: the concrete and stone architecture is thus rendered ephemeral and fragile.Furthermore, by using typical construction site elements like scaffolding, fabric, metal rivets and cable ties, we invite to reflect on what it means to construct, reconstruct and deconstruct, especially in a city with such complex and significant building history like Berlin. https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2023 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:09:29 +0000 Carlos Ricoy https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2023 SquatKit 3000 Carlos Ricoy and Philipp Khan Mixed media, installation and video Variable measures<img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8b7f826f7fe57a310bd1c80f3f8d53d7eb73a818582cb8ae9b020c3fa0fede4/_DSC4833.jpg" data-mid="237396763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8b7f826f7fe57a310bd1c80f3f8d53d7eb73a818582cb8ae9b020c3fa0fede4/_DSC4833.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a7b8f6067c330f8cdd8c0f926fe5c4b08d96b752bb15412c072e22cc7f84aa9/_DSC5036.jpg" data-mid="237396768" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a7b8f6067c330f8cdd8c0f926fe5c4b08d96b752bb15412c072e22cc7f84aa9/_DSC5036.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37cce05e470838323c3fcc7cdf282fb1394596accc485b55ecbf50b34efc7510/_DSC5160.jpg" data-mid="237396771" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37cce05e470838323c3fcc7cdf282fb1394596accc485b55ecbf50b34efc7510/_DSC5160.jpg" /> <img width="1429" height="2000" width_o="1429" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f449870ee88f6c0a6998f07979ee1ce603c122233538c84e2907d24bd5742e01/_DSC5158.jpg" data-mid="237396775" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f449870ee88f6c0a6998f07979ee1ce603c122233538c84e2907d24bd5742e01/_DSC5158.jpg" /> Squatkit 3000 on view at&nbsp;Kulturhaus Schwartzsche Villa Berlin, photogragrphies by Jeremy Knowles <img width="1429" height="2000" width_o="1429" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a9ff2dc0065f835538baa47be6a730f9c0ccfb2b569527a906335c1b7c7a8b4/_DSC8868.jpg" data-mid="187715146" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a9ff2dc0065f835538baa47be6a730f9c0ccfb2b569527a906335c1b7c7a8b4/_DSC8868.jpg" /> The installation deals with the capitalistic mechanisms that are set in motion by the act of squatting. Exploring the ways in which spaces are claimed in Western society, it borrows the aesthetics from a squat, an ultimate symbol of an anti-authoritarian movement, that starts off as a means of survival and then gets absorbed by the power dynamics of modern capitalism, inevitably taking its place in the violent cycle of gentrification. SQUATKIT 3000 is presented as the ultimate package for claiming spaces, within this context the kit can be used and displayed everywhere. <img width="1587" height="1134" width_o="1587" height_o="1134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61c5abd6fb32eaa4816d2c29b739fc5fbc3ea93f3f1da310c22e1117e0d93f0d/_DSC8866.jpg" data-mid="187728565" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61c5abd6fb32eaa4816d2c29b739fc5fbc3ea93f3f1da310c22e1117e0d93f0d/_DSC8866.jpg" /> View of Squatkit 3000 and Take a Sit on Rundgang, Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin Photo by Jeremy Knowles <img width="1429" height="2000" width_o="1429" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc639f1c7d5c362d7407d11554517b1130c0a18966b3d494b1c5ef17d6ed64c2/_DSC8870.jpg" data-mid="187728735" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc639f1c7d5c362d7407d11554517b1130c0a18966b3d494b1c5ef17d6ed64c2/_DSC8870.jpg" />Detail view of Squatkit 3000 on Rundgang, Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin Photo by Jeremy Knowles S.O.SDry branches on grass Variable measures <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8695c099710b4ad0dbcf6ba56ce0cc702577aecc84c0edb2d4a35e6078fdd114/IMG_6656.jpeg" data-mid="187716182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8695c099710b4ad0dbcf6ba56ce0cc702577aecc84c0edb2d4a35e6078fdd114/IMG_6656.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86512bf7268a1d4cf509e98d698789ea1d3af28f650142aad9bdd7b73c401701/IMG_6636.jpeg" data-mid="187716185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86512bf7268a1d4cf509e98d698789ea1d3af28f650142aad9bdd7b73c401701/IMG_6636.jpeg" /><img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6363f14e34a357d23d9e81a469d660803af198144cf784d8d9c977821dd97f8/IMG_6643.jpeg" data-mid="187716197" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6363f14e34a357d23d9e81a469d660803af198144cf784d8d9c977821dd97f8/IMG_6643.jpeg" />Intervention for the project Last Friday by Ignacio Pérez JofreLast Friday is a project of actions and interventions in public spaces carried out by artists and collectives, which take place on the last Friday of every month and focus on ecological issues and the problems of climate change. (Under)growth Soil on soil Variable measures <img width="5626" height="3751" width_o="5626" height_o="3751" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4131ad2aff5d4507807d230d18e69de731d0c58a83b7005f418b34f9c8090d62/DSC01008.jpg" data-mid="187716463" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4131ad2aff5d4507807d230d18e69de731d0c58a83b7005f418b34f9c8090d62/DSC01008.jpg" /> <img width="5564" height="3709" width_o="5564" height_o="3709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04e855bedcabefbad3bfb07284753b6e572c63a917168f9699894a87533ed609/DSC01014.jpg" data-mid="187716546" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04e855bedcabefbad3bfb07284753b6e572c63a917168f9699894a87533ed609/DSC01014.jpg" /> <img width="5490" height="3660" width_o="5490" height_o="3660" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2bf4fd2dc343f3300db02104004e07634e583ed9694ce10b6e969cbc9f8d01e/DSC01041.jpg" data-mid="187716547" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2bf4fd2dc343f3300db02104004e07634e583ed9694ce10b6e969cbc9f8d01e/DSC01041.jpg" /><img width="5562" height="3708" width_o="5562" height_o="3708" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/416edaf5ed9acc41e91f25ea2c77289ccf8e55f9d8ae885d7731616c52ef344a/DSC01051.jpg" data-mid="187716550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/416edaf5ed9acc41e91f25ea2c77289ccf8e55f9d8ae885d7731616c52ef344a/DSC01051.jpg" /><img width="5707" height="3805" width_o="5707" height_o="3805" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef261156ec5e22c1344d048c5301c024aeac27703d54221583df6f83c3039197/DSC01064.jpg" data-mid="187716553" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef261156ec5e22c1344d048c5301c024aeac27703d54221583df6f83c3039197/DSC01064.jpg" /><img width="5866" height="3911" width_o="5866" height_o="3911" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/939457176042f0ca03c405edf875bf05e74d0b284d50b8e780d721321dd4f186/DSC01089.jpg" data-mid="187716579" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/939457176042f0ca03c405edf875bf05e74d0b284d50b8e780d721321dd4f186/DSC01089.jpg" />As Europe has developed and its cities have grown, there has been a distancing between humans and nature. Parks emerged as a solution to this, seeking to connect city dwellers with nature again. But like all spaces within our cities, parks are subject to regulations and controls, making the flora that thrives in them strictly controlled. In this way the intervention seeks to "renovate" a small square of lawn by creating a hole filled with fertile soil, allowing different plants or species to develop in that place, thus retaking the public space. Take a sitInstallationChess board, 23 pawns, 2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 Bishops, 1 Queen, 2 kings, timer, chairs and tableVariable measure <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4709cc1fb92580135916f191b77c1fc523f24b4b6b857776b6df34a2098f47f/IMG_5441.jpeg" data-mid="187715000" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4709cc1fb92580135916f191b77c1fc523f24b4b6b857776b6df34a2098f47f/IMG_5441.jpeg" /><img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ae4818e889cb75e833c9ea404df8431bb963cb4f82511d1d0a7422520bc4723/IMG_5445.jpeg" data-mid="187715038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ae4818e889cb75e833c9ea404df8431bb963cb4f82511d1d0a7422520bc4723/IMG_5445.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54074e4402ff8a4701265be880017dc3c0aa1e1eee8a9df76312f9ea02d1bb0b/IMG_5444.jpeg" data-mid="187715042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54074e4402ff8a4701265be880017dc3c0aa1e1eee8a9df76312f9ea02d1bb0b/IMG_5444.jpeg" />The installation explores the use of different tools and their potential to raise awareness of social issues, dealing with the power structures that exist in our society. In this context, the audience is invited to play the chess game presented in the installation. The game follows the same rules as the classic chess, but with one big difference: one player is allowed toplay only with a king and the pawns, while the other player has access to all the pieces. This change underscores the unequal distribution of power and the challenges faced by those who are at a disadvantage. The side of each player will be determined randomly, highlighting the realities of life where individuals do not choose the circumstances or the situations they find themselves in. People do not choose their positions of power or the tools they have at their disposal, and some grow up in better situations with more opportunities for success, while others do not. https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2022 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:23:37 +0000 Carlos Ricoy https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2022 U-bahn drawings 2022-presentMarker on paper&nbsp; 10 x 15 cm <img width="3096" height="2322" width_o="3096" height_o="2322" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63b06298cf20def422d1bcc2838625dbb95e42b97c37ad06a941e12856f80db2/2.JPG" data-mid="187712700" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63b06298cf20def422d1bcc2838625dbb95e42b97c37ad06a941e12856f80db2/2.JPG" /><img width="2877" height="2157" width_o="2877" height_o="2157" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/071ed8e2d229d9a5ef8018223079a59f94b9fbe8bf26ae4944cd30321894a4fa/3.JPG" data-mid="187712707" border="0" 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border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27d7ec31c7af2f344d56dd4d31bedd1a958bac619dcf43af85bcb0858c5db39f/11.JPG" /><img width="2832" height="2124" width_o="2832" height_o="2124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/442842a0da200d642fde6de5d06a72ff5274f6ad682e2f4de3223f881fe404a8/10.JPG" data-mid="187712725" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/442842a0da200d642fde6de5d06a72ff5274f6ad682e2f4de3223f881fe404a8/10.JPG" /><img width="2839" height="2130" width_o="2839" height_o="2130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0479fd1b116f416d56ba0db223968a31fd449fc93209c4877a754ed4a2f2c3b/9.JPG" data-mid="187712724" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0479fd1b116f416d56ba0db223968a31fd449fc93209c4877a754ed4a2f2c3b/9.JPG" /><img width="2691" height="2018" width_o="2691" height_o="2018" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1302f7f172ab06e2756aa219d9e9c358741331052208458d63e785e8729a6933/8.JPG" data-mid="187712718" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1302f7f172ab06e2756aa219d9e9c358741331052208458d63e785e8729a6933/8.JPG" /><img width="3249" height="2436" width_o="3249" height_o="2436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c2f7c2890d613fed50ec199c5b2fb4a1e8837d8eee58ab694f985d1e5167df8/1.JPG" data-mid="187712697" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c2f7c2890d613fed50ec199c5b2fb4a1e8837d8eee58ab694f985d1e5167df8/1.JPG" /> In this series of drawings the movement of the metro during certain journeys is used as a method of creation and development of the work. In this way, by holding a marker and leaving the hand dead on a piece of paper, the movement of the metro itself gradually creates the drawing. Depending on factors such as the metro line used or the duration of the journey, the composition of the drawing will change and, depending on the amount of movement, the lines will be thicker or thinner. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24b54ebcd2f4e4f85b73c646f20365bd287bad3d87f92870707f7e09472dcffa/IMG_3527.jpeg" data-mid="187712826" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24b54ebcd2f4e4f85b73c646f20365bd287bad3d87f92870707f7e09472dcffa/IMG_3527.jpeg" /> U-Bahn Drawings view at the group show Materiais, Sala Manuel Manolo Moldes, Pontevedra, Spain. https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2021 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:16:45 +0000 Carlos Ricoy https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2021 BuffedMixed media 70 x 70 cm <img width="2269" height="2249" width_o="2269" height_o="2249" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e795299bce39c2370f657032bbb54c0445b828acc12ac8e6087c67df35e25c7e/FINAL.jpg" data-mid="187712187" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e795299bce39c2370f657032bbb54c0445b828acc12ac8e6087c67df35e25c7e/FINAL.jpg" /> Buff 1 (Fool38), spray on canvas <img width="2177" height="2170" width_o="2177" height_o="2170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38fc12e11ce4903ff7f796eea2369329256f752dcfc5b2550efe92305b8de52b/FINAL-2.jpg" data-mid="187712199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38fc12e11ce4903ff7f796eea2369329256f752dcfc5b2550efe92305b8de52b/FINAL-2.jpg" /> Buff 2 (Gay69), spray and acrylic on canvas <img width="2339" height="2321" width_o="2339" height_o="2321" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a22de624b8ba415e6a0caf7eb7e2ed10b80bf33cf0b74212b28a516e92a26e95/buff3.jpg" data-mid="187712246" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a22de624b8ba415e6a0caf7eb7e2ed10b80bf33cf0b74212b28a516e92a26e95/buff3.jpg" /> Buff 3 (Lg Crew), spray and acrylic on MDF Buff” is known as the act or result of removing graffiti. From the 1980s onwards graffiti spread rapidly throughout Europe and became a worldwide cultural movement. For authorities and governments the only way to fight graffiti was to clean it up, which in most cases was very expensive and inefficient. In order to cut costs and remove graffiti faster, they started to simply paint, usually with grey or white, over the graffiti, creating abstract coloured stains (usually different from the colour of the wall) with the sole purpose of censoring whatever is underneath. In this process the council cleaners create a form based on formal decisions that are previously given by the graffiti they want to remove, so we can understand that in a way they are creating abstract paintings known today as Buffs. It is in this context that this series is developed, using this method of cleaning as an artistic method. In this way I invite my friends to paint on my canvases, where I will later remove what they have done following the guidelines used to clean graffiti in the street. In this sense, this series uses a process of creation in which the formal decisions are made by a third person, so the artist only acts as a “cleaner” who follows a previously defined pattern. Braking 2021 - presentBike wheels on paper 100 x 70 cm<img width="2305" height="3386" width_o="2305" height_o="3386" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58204bc386286fbf0b5c1b6c4e283e9336e0167183d16e96d9c51279bd9d93d3/FINAL-3.jpg" data-mid="187712349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58204bc386286fbf0b5c1b6c4e283e9336e0167183d16e96d9c51279bd9d93d3/FINAL-3.jpg" /> <img width="2515" height="3616" width_o="2515" height_o="3616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6312ce7c165154a547e5c760cf16fa387a6792f024401d5c173f54fe7e8790e/frenazo-3.jpg" data-mid="187712386" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6312ce7c165154a547e5c760cf16fa387a6792f024401d5c173f54fe7e8790e/frenazo-3.jpg" /><img width="2372" height="3583" width_o="2372" height_o="3583" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/579c858b417a5c356375414a9f2bd089339f28ebed635c5339fa4e838405d41e/frenzao2.jpg" data-mid="187712404" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/579c858b417a5c356375414a9f2bd089339f28ebed635c5339fa4e838405d41e/frenzao2.jpg" /> In the city of Berlin most people use bicycles as a means of transport. This piece aims to capture these movements and routes by putting them down on paper, where the wheels of the bicycles of passers-by and the dirt accumulated on them leave a mark. To capture these marks, different pieces of paper have been placed on the city’s bicycle lanes, leaving them there for a short period of time until several bicycles have passed by and left their mark. In this way, a part of the city, in this case the dust, dirt or rubber from the bicycles, is impregnated into the paper, serving as a pigment to make a drawing on the support. https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2019 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:59:12 +0000 Carlos Ricoy https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2019 58 walks in PontevedraSpray on MDF 120 x 120 cm <img width="3530" height="3529" width_o="3530" height_o="3529" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8fb24a6252910fd08262fac78c11034a053483caa27b1725c33d7a70754b8d1/recorridos2.jpg" data-mid="187711324" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8fb24a6252910fd08262fac78c11034a053483caa27b1725c33d7a70754b8d1/recorridos2.jpg" /> The idea of this painting starts after I did numerous wanders or random walks around the city of Pontevedra, Spain. This way of discovering the city is something that the Situationist used very often in their art works and performances, and for me, was a way to get inspired and to understand the city from a different perspective. During several months I did numerous walkings, always without any fixed course or direction. After some point I start filming the routes that I was doing with my phone, and this piece is the graphical representation of them. Each line of the painting represent a walk, which first is drawn by myself with the physical action of walking in a space and after is represented and painted on the MDF. For this representation I used a sequence of seven colors, each one of them representing a day of the week. The painting contains a total of 58 walks, each one with a different duration, process and context. CamouflageMixed mediaVariable measures <img width="2632" height="3541" width_o="2632" height_o="3541" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/924b0db6d2a01a2be64baba5e67599f987639681761f01c371cb6e883e0c707f/tabla1.jpg" data-mid="187711375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/924b0db6d2a01a2be64baba5e67599f987639681761f01c371cb6e883e0c707f/tabla1.jpg" /> Table 1 (Camouflage series), mixed media, 85 x 45 cm <img width="3110" height="3110" width_o="3110" height_o="3110" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/611ae5bbdc9b7d0be7927e6c9379cbde7cbf2c6d2d586df823fc0c65217919f4/tabla2.jpg" data-mid="187711412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/611ae5bbdc9b7d0be7927e6c9379cbde7cbf2c6d2d586df823fc0c65217919f4/tabla2.jpg" /> Table 2 (camuflage series) mixed media, 89 x 89 cm <img width="2610" height="4134" width_o="2610" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0e1097878eb3b3f9135fc9edf796b1397ee227a5caacbaa093b1ebf2c640207/recorridos.jpg" data-mid="187711488" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0e1097878eb3b3f9135fc9edf796b1397ee227a5caacbaa093b1ebf2c640207/recorridos.jpg" /> Table 3 (camouflage series) mixed media, 223 x 120 cm During the tours mentioned above I realised that some spaces in the city create a kind of playground where people unconsciously participate, in this context I started the series Camouflage. This work has a total of four DM boards that were custom made and placed in empty spaces in the city and left there for 3 to 5 months. At first the boards were completely white and clean but over time people started to intervene on them, so unconsciously the inhabitants became an important part of the working process and little by little the DMs became part of the space. In this way the artist’s power to make formal decisions about the work is eliminated and the size of the wood is predefined depending on the place it occupies. The boards capture their environment and the people who inhabit it, the boards are part of the environment but also offer information about what happens in it, transforming the space but also being transformed by it. In the end I recovered three out of the four original tables. Monochromes 2019 - presentPlastic paint on wallVariable measures <img width="4148" height="2765" width_o="4148" height_o="2765" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d089bde427b582929fd3a6c1c76cfc14fc594d446e73960efc830ec451a86b8/DSC_0363.jpg" data-mid="187711634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d089bde427b582929fd3a6c1c76cfc14fc594d446e73960efc830ec451a86b8/DSC_0363.jpg" /> Red, 145 x 109 cm <img width="4560" height="3040" width_o="4560" height_o="3040" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24a6f08c4f6268a7144620505ba829b9d824fc0de338696750c76d68ecb1e766/ROSA.jpg" data-mid="187711702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24a6f08c4f6268a7144620505ba829b9d824fc0de338696750c76d68ecb1e766/ROSA.jpg" /> Magenta, 158 x 136 cm <img width="4134" height="2756" width_o="4134" height_o="2756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4462cbf6d9dc411c914900ec82b610481d5d63295217830d1140a280c3ccf06b/DSC_0299.jpg" data-mid="187711713" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4462cbf6d9dc411c914900ec82b610481d5d63295217830d1140a280c3ccf06b/DSC_0299.jpg" /> Yellow, 190 x 119 cm <img width="4134" height="2755" width_o="4134" height_o="2755" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6c2c35a42cbacf10184cf6fc455a54ca1a47cdcde398c01a649ebce3d57e513/AZUL.jpg" data-mid="187711743" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6c2c35a42cbacf10184cf6fc455a54ca1a47cdcde398c01a649ebce3d57e513/AZUL.jpg" /> Blue, 201 x 149 cm <img width="2362" height="1575" width_o="2362" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e4d89ddc96b4b39908bf1a1fc562653065426e43f3696895e88235777996e51/VERDE.jpg" data-mid="187711798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e4d89ddc96b4b39908bf1a1fc562653065426e43f3696895e88235777996e51/VERDE.jpg" /> Green, 208 x 113 cm The monochrome has been used in the history of art to break with the classical ways of making and understanding painting. Each monochrome consists of the maximum simplification of painting and the total elimination of the pictorial gesture, reducing it to a rectangular shape and a single color. This simple form, together with the use of bright and flat colors, makes the monochromes stand out against the discontinuous and heterogeneous forms typical of urban space. The Monochromes do not represent anything or speak of anything, but represents and speaks for themselves. It enhances the idea of color as a perceptual and visual experience, providing us with a place of calm. The monochrome is understood as a work of X measures and X color that can be taken to different places, maintaining its technical characteristics, but changing its concept and connotations depending on its context. In this case, the work is carried out in the urban space, but it can also be repainted and presented in the exhibition space, confronting both places: the street as a space of artistic freedom, full of information and accessible to all people; and the exhibition space as a white and neutral place, limited to a type of work and a certain audience.<img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca5a09acbd30b1154ca50ea970c9ea15cd81536f726313d080c7ba1921046c8b/DSC_8312.jpg" data-mid="187711895" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca5a09acbd30b1154ca50ea970c9ea15cd81536f726313d080c7ba1921046c8b/DSC_8312.jpg" />View of Blue and Green monochromes at Postgraffiti exhibition, Vigo 2020 Picture by Juan Rivas <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56394efe70edde61e61006726ccfbcd810fddb8554dd73cacfbaa91ad3f7f24e/DSC_8318.jpg" data-mid="187712052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56394efe70edde61e61006726ccfbcd810fddb8554dd73cacfbaa91ad3f7f24e/DSC_8318.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a1b97b27f1e9265f9c80a7529b3127c84f17b4f32c0c4e0de9eab26ceb81cbb/DSC_8315.jpg" data-mid="187712051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a1b97b27f1e9265f9c80a7529b3127c84f17b4f32c0c4e0de9eab26ceb81cbb/DSC_8315.jpg" /> View of Blue and Green monochromes at Postgraffiti exhibition, Vigo 2020 (detailed view), pictures by Juan Rivas https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2018 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:40:09 +0000 Carlos Ricoy https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/2018 Clean City Tour Spray on wall, video and mapsVariable measures <img width="3508" height="2480" width_o="3508" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b64b1713374e5e4e5646350659e914558cc8addf1a6d28ddf157dea0c1e3a6c3/fotofinal4.jpg" data-mid="187710908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b64b1713374e5e4e5646350659e914558cc8addf1a6d28ddf157dea0c1e3a6c3/fotofinal4.jpg" /><img width="3953" height="2953" width_o="3953" height_o="2953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29b4320fe62b1546f2ea7f2b22cd7798ac30349d759c9355d854648458bb150a/CLEANYOURLIFE-2.jpg" data-mid="187710920" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29b4320fe62b1546f2ea7f2b22cd7798ac30349d759c9355d854648458bb150a/CLEANYOURLIFE-2.jpg" /> (Clean city tour view at Espaço Mirá, Porto, Portugal) In 2018 the city council of Porto was cleaning a lot of graffiti (a movement known as Buffing) but just the ones that they considered ugly or “not art”, leaving intact some other graffiti characters and murals that were made in the same ilegal way, in part so the tourists could see the “urban art” around the city. Clean City Tour is a piece in which I invite the viewers to do a tour around the Portuguese city, guided by a map, where they could find some Buff paintings. This Buff paintings are remade by me, using the same colors and shapes that the cleaners from the city council create when they buff a graffiti. In this way, all the esthetics and formal decisions of the painting are already made and I just reproduce them, comparing the movement of cleaning graffiti with the graffiti itself and turning this buffs into graffiti again. Be an abstrac artist!Digital print, 3D printing and stamp inkVariable measures <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2444d83283d13468a503f07d21e057a915f7f0a8688ead112252605700b96989/IMG_8359.JPG" data-mid="187711063" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2444d83283d13468a503f07d21e057a915f7f0a8688ead112252605700b96989/IMG_8359.JPG" /><img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b59f1c6c05145b6f80a6a8042c0f486b3398c9f9889c4c291915549f55ebbee/IMG_8360.JPG" data-mid="187711056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b59f1c6c05145b6f80a6a8042c0f486b3398c9f9889c4c291915549f55ebbee/IMG_8360.JPG" /> Be an Abstract Artist comes from the same context as Clean City Tour. In this piece I created a photo book that shows the graffitis around the city. The viewer is invited to choose one of the stamps, one color and “clean” one of the graffitis in the book. In this sense they have to make the same formal and esthetic choices as the graffiti cleaners, chosen which graffiti deserves to stay in the book and which should be cleaned. https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/About Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:18:43 +0000 Carlos Ricoy https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/About Carlos Ricoy is a Galician artist whose work explores playful, subversive, and critical ways of engaging with mechanisms of social control in contemporary post-capitalist society. He holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo and is currently completing an MA in Raumstrategien at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. His work has been shown in cities including Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Porto, and Berlin. Through his practice, Ricoy addresses the social dynamics that shape urban landscapes and the policies that regulate it, challenging the power structures that define our present. https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/CV Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:20:37 +0000 Carlos Ricoy https://carlosricoy.cargo.site/CV EXHIBITIONS 2025 Räumen, group exhibition, Zone – Space for Contemporary Art and Discussion, Braunschweig You Are Welcome, group exhibition and curated by the artist, LaBase, Berlin The Band I Trust: Orchestrated Noise &amp; Worldmaking, group exhibition, Refuge Worldwide Radio, Berlin Resonant Spaces, group exhibition, Kunstraum Potsdamer Str., Berlin 2024 Radiant Opacity, group exhibition, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin Friction, group exhibition, Floating University, Berlin Mending the Voice, group exhibition, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin 2023 Exposures, group exhibition, Galerie Schwartze Villa, Berlin Ongoing Strategies, group exhibition, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin 2022 Materials, group exhibition, Kunstraum Manolo Moldes, Pontevedra, Spain 2021 Selected participant, Twelfth Prize of Galician Auditorium, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2019 Do final e do comezo, Pontevedra Museum, Spain OL35mm, University of Fine Arts, Pontevedra, Spain Eleventh Prize of Galician Auditorium (selected), Santiago de Compostela, Spain Open Studio Exhibition, Ignacio Pérez Jofre, Postgraffiti, Vigo, Spain 2018 Fresh Paint, Please Do Not Touch!, Espaço Mirá, Porto, Portugal Collective artist book exhibition, ESAP, Porto, Portugal 2017 XantarDeforme, exhibition with Fabio Moreno, University of Fine Arts, Pontevedra, Spain