Miguel Ángel Tornero - Big Frieze - Museum Reina Sofia - Madrid

The Palacio de Cristal has traditionally been a space where artists are commissioned to work on a new piece conceived specifically for its unique architecture. Although the restoration and repair work currently being carried out on its structure means visitors cannot access its interior, the programme held within to support the public display of current art continues all the same. In fact, it is the radical imagination of artists that will enable the Museo Reina Sofía to continue to endow this emblematic space with cultural content. The first such artist to take part in this series is Miguel Ángel Tornero (Baeza, 1978), who contributes with a work devised for the canvases which will cover the building during its first year of restoration work.

In his most recent pieces, Tornero has drawn upon the photographs he takes in his daily life. A series of drifts in which the scene is the surrounding landscape of Madrid, his place of residence, ranging from small and trivial social interactions in and around the city to the monumental architecture of power that characterises the capital. He takes these images — in themselves fragments of a wider reality — and cuts and superimposes them on others, in an exchange of scale and motif which gives rise to richly complex collages, an arrangement of the remnants of multiple possible representations of the city. Go to Website

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