Natur Expand by Francisco Manzano 015/08/10 - 01/11/10
Escalera Gallery, Avenida de la Gran Via, Aracena, Huelva, Spain
Since the cold war there hasn't been a global scale threat, affecting so many human beings, as the propaganda idea of global warming and its consequences. It seems that in this new threat man is the threatening force and also the one being threatened. Although it must be realised that this situation has developed from man spreading threatening information ...and then he himself creating the psychosis...
The goal of Manzano’s work is to reflect on these questions. Our physical and mental scale in contrast with nature. The ant as an element is more important and wide spread, as there are millions of people living in cities only made for human beings, but denaturalized. And in every city the ants make their home, being sometimes the only representatives of living nature that surround us.
In fact the idea is to create images of ants on a human scale, like Vitruvius and Leonardo da Vinci intended in architecture drawing. So, the minuscule of nature that recycles our left-overs, at once takes our size, forcing us to think at how small man is in respect to the planet he lives on. This needs an expanded image of an ant, because they are 'growing big'.
The project is just starting, having as a final goal creating ants on a scale and number that cause a feeling of threat.