Site-Specific – Pablo Rasgado

Graffito

Pablo Rasgado’s Graffito is an ongoing architectural intervention that interrogates the boundaries between traditional art forms, public space, and the temporal nature of urban landscapes. The project, initiated in 2021, places fragments of oil paintings, a medium historically associated

Architecture Installation Painting Site-Specific

Synthesis

Synthesis is a series of sculptures that construct an intimate yet universal portrait of the human body. Departing from conventional ideas of representation, the project approaches portraiture as a philosophical and material inquiry into the body’s elemental structure. Conceived

Sculpture Site-Specific

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After obtaining a series of classified documents, the artist translated the redacted fragments into architectural blueprints for the construction of three-dimensional structures. The censored blocks of text were thus transformed into volumes that reveal seemingly recognizable spaces: fences, doors,

Installation Sculpture Site-Specific Text

Double vision/ Double museum

Double Vision/Double Museum unfolds as a subtle dialogue between the museum’s architecture and its institutional presence. By embedding artworks in unexpected locations, the project engages with the building’s specific features, proposing the museum itself as a medium for artistic

Installation Site-Specific

The unbribable witness of history

After removing the structural columns of an edification, the rebar was twisted to perform a knot and was installed in the exact same place where the columns used to be.

Architecture Installation Sculpture Site-Specific

Timescape

Timescape, consists of almost 200 paintings mounted on individual canvases, that Rasgado has removed from public walls around the world including Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, New York, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Bogotá, Lagos, Los Angeles, New York, Tel Aviv, Ramallah and

Painting Site-Specific

Afterlife

Painting Site-Specific

Anulación

After the Micro migration phe- nomena that occurred in Tijuana due to an increase on violence, a large number of abandoned constructions where left in the city. All the accesses of one of the many semi-abandoned buildings, where covered using

Installation Sculpture Site-Specific

A tooth for an eye

Ojo por diente consists of a sculptural project which debates the ultimate relationship of naturalization of social forms. It emphasizes on the aesthetic sense of cultural history in relation to the deterioration of an object’s function, in this case,

Architecture Installation Sculpture Site-Specific

Sobreposición

Sobreposición is an evolving investigation into the layered histories embedded within architectural remnants. Through this project, Pablo Rasgado transforms discarded drywall fragments from institutional exhibitions into intricate, site-specific installations that operate simultaneously as artworks, museographic designs, and platforms for

Architecture Installation Painting Sculpture Site-Specific