IVAN CASTILLO LAGRANGE
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A tuned context listener inhabiting multiple perceptions to co-create system innovations. A functional aesthetics where sensible decisions follow the enthropy of the present moments. Focused on a process of organic minimalism that calls for the sophistication of simplicity to harmonize with  space and time.  In this purely geometric exploration, the process dances into universal laws concerning the engineering of creation, that which regenerates and reproduces more of it’s own nature. Geometric Archetypal precepts to reveal metaphors for a human experience towards true self.


STUDIES Visual communication at Neuman Design Institute, Fine Arts at Central University of Venezuela and experimental art education at Simon Rodriguez University, Caracas Venezuela.

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Ivan Castillo Lagrange escucha y observa el contexto para idear y crear objetos que indágen la innovación de la forma y su conciencia cuantíca. Una estética de donde pre-existen los fenómenos de la materia ? En esta exploración geométrica el proceso baila con leyes universales que atañen a la ingeniería de la creación, de lo que regenera y se reproduce. Preceptos arquetípicos que revelan metáforas de la experiencia humana hacia ese ser verdadero que sin saberlo todos anhelamos. Centrado en la fenomenología de los procesos este minimalismo orgánico insta a la sofisticación de la simplicidad para armonizar con el espacio/tiempo. 

selected exhibitions

 ID-ART Space 2020

Two Group shows

Curated by Felix Suazo


 ART EXPRESSION Miami 2019

Solo show

Curated by Felix Suazo


 CORAL GABLES MUSEUM Miami 2019

Group show

Curated by Adriana Meneses


 META Gallery MIAMI 2019

 Dorisa Building (Miami FL) Group show

Curated by Enrrique Faria

 MARQUIS ART 2019

1100 Byscane Boulevard

( During Art Basel Miami ) 2018

Presented by Deborah Thymes

K+Z Kader Architects Attalier 2018 

 3400 NE 34 Miami

( During Basel Miami ) 

Jaya Kader

 PINTA EXPO  2017 

( Art Basel Miami )

Presented by Capriles Brillembourg

Private Collection (Miami FL)

 PINTA EXPO 2016

( Art Basel Miami ) 

Presented by Capriles Brillenmbourg

Private Collection (Miami FL)

 MIAMI NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL 2016

Arts Connection at PAMM Museum

1250 Museum Park

From the Exhibit "Cloud Fields"

Research on visual perception in the field of optics, psychology and neurology have established the relationship between vision and mind to understand how we perceive the world. Such a question becomes visual, especially in those who have chosen to explore the processes of observation and its aesthetic significance.

Designer and visual artist Iván Castillo Lagrange has raised an inquiry based on modular structures, folds changing directions and generating volume, which vary depending on the light and according to the mental behavior of the observer. Everything emerges from the plane, then acquires structure to finally fold synergetically at once. Starting from this premise, his sculptures, objects, installations and mural interventions incorporate the notions of finding balanced tensions, not only as compositional resources but as speculative triggers.

The selection of pieces gathered in Espace Expression under the title “Field of Clouds”, suggests a utopian landscape, of imprecise topography, where the forms levitate on a volatile horizon. The project - constituted exclusively by hand folded rhomboid planes - arranged in space as a constellation of floating screens, billed with composite aluminum sheets and UV printing.

From the perceptual point of view, these works can be seen as “increased micro particles” and also as “reduced macrostructures”. In any case, its uniqueness lies in its ambivalence, derived from its flat and volumetric, rigid and expandable condition. Each form serves as support for the other, generating a progressive, bi-rombic structure, based on duality.

“A plane does not hold without its counterpart, just as the constant tension that exists between two directions affects all its relations,” Castillo Lagrange writes in his statement.

For the artist, the perceptual question drifts towards a philosophical dimension, since each element complements the other and each fold implies the split in two, one outgoing and the other in fuge. In art as in life, everything implies its opposite; you just have to discern the point of view from which you look and presume what is in the dim light or out of our eyes.


                                                                                                                          Felix Suazo, curator

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Architecture of Silence

Beyond all the noise generated by our individual and collective neuroses, there is in all of us a space for silence in which our fundamental being dwells.

It is in this simultaneous dimension where senses are yet to be awakened, a realm feared by the thinking mind or ego. It is there where life is renewed and creativity continues to rain incessantly. This constant mystical present moment is the door that allows us to access the pre-invisible where form and condition gestate, that quantum field of energy. This is where we invest ourselves to explore mysteries of our wonderful and complicated dual universe.

The main motivation of this stage of my artistic expression has two fundamental axes: one personal and one collective. I look to inhabit space through a creative process where ideas are the axis of process, using universal symbols, proportions in conversation with materials with active molecules. Systems to structure to create spaces to calm the mind and lower the volume of the internal noise that keeps us from fully living the pure experience of the present moment.

From a collective perspective, we look for the observer to have a direct experience of the space towards that inner silence through tools such as the golden ratio, light frequency, active gravity, slow curvature; are some key pillars to harmonize and reflect on. The value of the pieces lies not only in their aesthetic dimension, but in their ability to harmonize and generate an experience of personal, subjective and free openness. This manifestation of the phenomenology of the process favors the synthesis and expresses from the essential the connection with the primary of the form, with the principles where the nature of the physical is gestated.

Ivan Castillo Lagrange

2021

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