El Anillo - Jose María Sánchez García

This book accompanies the fourth mounting in La Casita Azul of Centro Cibeles (presently the only space in Madrid dedicated to permanent exhibitions of architecture) and reproduces almost literally the great installation of such an overwhelming project. Both the exhibition and the book coincide in the approach to the vertebral concept of the work of Sánchez, which take us to the installations that the American artist Robert Smithson created since the Sixties, supported on the concept of ‘site/non-site’. Like Smithson, Sánchez produces dialectic between landscape and architecture, feeding back both experiences as opposed but complementary and activating a set of geometries such as nature and artifice, geometry and arbitrariness, background and figure, full and empty…