Sisyphus Project
SISIFO PROJECT
"The Sisyphus Project / The Sisyphus Project"
(2001 - 2002). Processual work: painting, sculpture, video and action.
Installation "Sisyphus Project". Cast central piece made of aluminum (80 cm diameter), sand and rocks. It is a processual work begun in 2001 during the artist's stay in the city of Speyer (Germany), exhibited in his individual in the Künstlerhause of the city and previously presented at the International Fair Freie Wahlen in the Staadtische Künsthalle Baden-Baden. The action was carried out in 2002 in Spain, beginning in the Picos de Europa, Monastery of Moreruela (founded by the cisterns in 1111), outside the Vostell Museum in Malpartida (Cáceres) and finally in Seville. "The Sisyphus Project" is a contemporary metaphor that uses myth as a literal element of argument. Despite the distance in time, this myth perfectly represents the current reality, which leads us to pursue infinite goals. A system that imposes on us the permanent search for "success", the absurd struggle of competition in an eternal conflict with our environment. The anxiety and frustration perpetuated both in the failures and (paradoxically) also in the "successes", when discovering its emptiness, the loss of illusion and the absence of deeper ideals.
