ÁLVARO URBANO – PRELUDE
2025-08-04Working in the intersection of theater, architecture and film, Álvaro Urbano transforms spaces into immersive environments emulating an oneiric dimension. Through atmospheric installations Urbano researches the ruin as a space where reality and fiction commingle. Staged gestures and reconstituted narratives are used to conjure these lost and heterotopic spaces; disrupting archetypes and objects from their original function render them open to interpretation. For Prelude, Urbano revisits The Ramble, a woodland area of Central Park and a known space of transit whose public distinction borrows from a legacy of 19th-century landscape design – celebrated in the parlance of its time for “obscurity, not absolutely impenetrable, but sufficient to affect imagination with a sense of mystery.”
Opposite – Prelude (Dogwood), 2025
Exhibition runs through to August 22nd, 2025
Marian Goodman Gallery
385 Broadway
10013 New York
