Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2022, London
21st June-21st August 2022
Collective exhibition on the theme Climate, curated by Niall McLaughlin and Rana Begum at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, that showcases art in all forms, from painting, film and photography, to architectural works and sculpture by invited artists.
Flores & Prats participate with a model and an axonometric drawing of Variétés Laboratoire d’Expressions Culturelles et Citoyennes à Bruxelles, a project in collaboration with Ouest Architecture.
Reference by critic Oliver Wainwright on Flores & Prats’ contribution in The Guardian:
‘This being the RA, there are the usual obligatory contributions from the bloated corporate dinosaurs of the profession, proudly still showing off their glass and steel skyscrapers – with bolt-on “eco” features – that make for an amusing comparison with McLaughlin and Begum’s more thoughtful commissions. It also sets into sharp relief the most climate-friendly projects of them all: the ones that reuse and reinvent existing buildings. Refurbishment might not sound like the sexiest of things to exhibit, but the beguiling models and drawings of Catalan duo Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats – for their scheme to transform a derelict theatre in Brussels into a cultural laboratory – show how creative attitudes to retrofit can lead to results that are more layered, more complex and infinitely richer than bulldozing and starting from scratch.’
> Read full article here.
> Read review in SUMMA+ (ESPAÑOL).