Sputnik

Eduardo Ponjuán

April - August, 2017

The Apartment, Havana

Sputnik space
Sputnik space

Eduardo Ponjuán proposes a strange galaxy, whose center is a Sputnik lamp with 24 lit bulbs. In this unreal world, the objects and the synesthesia they project, provoke, intermingle to build landscapes of love and despair, of sadness and loneliness, of oblivion and desire. His eagerness is the deviation of the gaze by a manipulation, not of their form that persists indelible, but of their function: old records, full of love songs, are piled one on top of the other like columns of uneasiness, and in their crown, little birds reinvent a kind of fountain [Cuando vuelvas a quererme, Sí o no?an irregular block of aluminum foil extends its lower part to the base of a dining table, the same one that holds a thick glass, perhaps lake and mirror [Iceberg]; a forest of odoriferous pines, arranged on two Isamu Noguchi-style tables, recreates a Lilliputian nature, apparently crossed by a river or an abyss? [Black Ice].

 

 
Sputnik space

works

Yes or no? 2017
Aluminum and steel rods, bakelite birds
30, 2 cm in diameter x 147, 5 cm. high
Untitled.
From the "Sputnik" Series, 2017
Transfer on Hahnemühle 310 g paper
9 x 9 cm
Untitled.
From the "Sputnik" Series, 2017
Transfer on Hahnemühle 310 g paper
9 x 9 cm
Yes or no? 2017
Aluminum and steel rods, bakelite birds
30, 2 cm in diameter x 147, 5 cm. high
Untitled.
From the "Sputnik" Series, 2017
Transfer on Hahnemühle 310 g paper
9 x 9 cm
Untitled.
From the "Sputnik" Series, 2017
Transfer on Hahnemühle 310 g paper
9 x 9 cm
Untitled.
From the "Sputnik" Series, 2017
Transfer on Hahnemühle 310 g paper
9 x 9 cm
Untitled.
From the "Sputnik" Series, 2017
Transfer on Hahnemühle 310 g paper
9 x 9 cm
Untitled.
From the series "Velvet", 2017
Transfer on Strathmore 300 paper
g/m2 27, 9 x 27, 9 cm each one
Untitled.
From the "Sputnik" Series, 2017
Transfer on Hahnemühle 310 g paper
9 x 9 cm
Untitled.
From the "Sputnik" Series, 2017
Transfer on Hahnemühle 310 g paper
9 x 9 cm
Untitled.
From the series "Velvet", 2017
Transfer on Strathmore 300 paper
g/m2 27, 9 x 27, 9 cm each one
Untitled.
From the series "Velvet", 2017
Transfer on Strathmore 300 paper
g/m2 27, 9 x 27, 9 cm each one
Untitled.
From the series "Velvet", 2017
Transfer on Strathmore 300 paper
g/m2 27, 9 x 27, 9 cm each one
Jet, 2016
Armchair in wood, iron and rattan fibers
Variables
Untitled.
From the series "Velvet", 2017
Transfer on Strathmore 300 paper
g/m2 27, 9 x 27, 9 cm each one
Untitled.
From the series "Velvet", 2017
Transfer on Strathmore 300 paper
g/m2 27, 9 x 27, 9 cm each one
Jet, 2016
Armchair in wood, iron and rattan fibers
Variables
Mambo to infinity, 2015
Plasterboard, cuckoo clock mechanism
Variables
Iceberg, 2016
Aluminum foil, wood and glass table
Variables
Sputnik, 2017
Chrome-plated metal lamp, 24 incandescent bulbs type E-12
96, 52 cm. diameter
Mambo to infinity, 2015
Plasterboard, cuckoo clock mechanism
Variables
Iceberg, 2016
Aluminum foil, wood and glass table
Variables
Sputnik, 2017
Chrome-plated metal lamp, 24 incandescent bulbs type E-12
96, 52 cm. diameter
When you love me again, 2016
Aluminum and steel rods, bakelite birds
30, 2 cm in diameter x 144, 9 cm. high
What is written cannot be erased, 2016
Sculpted marble
37 x 57 x 4 cm
Untitled.
From the "Sputnik" Series, 2017
Transfer on Hahnemühle 310 g paper 9 x 9 cm
When you love me again, 2016
Aluminum and steel rods, bakelite birds
30, 2 cm in diameter x 144, 9 cm. high
What is written cannot be erased, 2016
Sculpted marble
37 x 57 x 4 cm
Untitled.
From the "Sputnik" Series, 2017
Transfer on Hahnemühle 310 g paper 9 x 9 cm

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