Machining
OneStudio - Valencia
This exhibition is the first in Valencia mainly made in 3D printing, where both the work and the process are the basis of the concept of the exhibition.
The works of Jose Antonio Picazo have always had as a conductive thread try to represent the current rhythms of our lives with a character close to the industrial and architectural world. Doing comings and turns between the origin of this situation that is the industrial revolution, making exhibitions with poor materials symbolizing this starting point. And our current situation with latest generation materials and technologies such as those that constitute this exhibition. On this occasion it is used to plastics with a vegetable base such as corn starch and with alloys such as bronze, Iron, The wood, The bamboo, Ceramics.
The use of this 3D technology therefore generates a metaphor of our human condition subject to industrial needs. "Mechanized" wants to talk about the state of the human being, that in many cases it has become a mere component of the productive system, where we dedicate ourselves to attend our work and cross -working obligations at times of rest. The level of alienation has reached a point where we ourselves simply value ourselves for our work condition and we force each other to achieve objectives that have little to do with our own essence and therefore we continue to encourage this situation of the mechanized human being.
We are currently living an increasingly advanced robotization and within a shorter than long, these automated systems will come to replace much of our jobs.
Is this good? Of course, We have much higher and much more diverse capabilities to have to maintain throughout our life a "monoactivity" than in most cases deeply distort the essence of each individual. Because not accepting that the automation of labor tasks, It can be an opportunity to have a more interesting society, more heterogeneous and take into account the human component. Because not walking made an economic turn that allows this change instead of going in the opposite direction, Several European political reflections are on this path. Richard Nixon already said in the years 60 that we should dissociate our work income. Practically 60 years later we are not prepared to raise this change.
The end of this exhibition is not to criticize the inheritance we have received from the Industrial Revolution and in which we continue to live, since this has given us great progress that have improved our quality of life. But it has also made us accept situations that currently cannot be acceptable and that nevertheless we accept and encourage. What is intended here is to put in front of our eyes an evidence that does not seem so obvious when we observe our environment and thus achieve a space for reflection.
