Isaac Cordal - New Pieces in Galicia, Spain

Photos by Isaac Cordal (Galicia, Spain)

Isaac Cordal ...is a sculpture artist from Galicia. His sculptures take  the form of little people sculpted from concrete in 'real' situations.  Cordal manages to capture a lot of emotion in his vignettes, in spite of their lack of detail or colour. He is sympathetic toward his little  people and we empathise with their situations, their leisure time, their  waiting for buses and their more tragic moments such as accidental  death, suicide or family funerals. His sculptures can be found in  gutters, on top of buildings, on top of bus shelters - in many unusual  and unlikely places in the capital. 

This book is the first time his  images have been shown in together in one book dedicated to his work.  Many images never seen before Cordal's concrete sculptures are like  little magical gifts to the public that only a few lucky people will see and love but so many more will have missed. Left to their own devices  throughout London Cordal what really makes these pieces magical is their placement. They bring new meaning to little corners of the urban  environment. They express something vulnerable but deeply engaging.   Left to fend for themselves, you almost want to protect them in some  way, or perhaps communicate with them. Of course the 25cm high  sculptures of people in everyday poses the artist creates in are not  real, are they? Well you've opened a whole can of worms with that  question. 

Yes, the little scenes in Concrete Eclipse are somewhat  poignant but they do not invite you to weep passively for lost worlds  you never knew. They are there to provide a one handed clap to shake you from your reveries and plug you back in to the world. So Cordall's men  in grey are a little message of hope in spite of their forlorn  appearance and they are there to remind you that pessimism is not common sense, it's just pessimism. So make sure you do something inessential  today. Go on, the grey men don't want you to.

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Generation Buy by RSH (LSD Magazine issue 8)

On the night of August 6th a series of events would unfold that would plunge London into 4 successive nights of rioting and looting. Regardless of the causes, the underlying issues and the people who partook of the burning and looting acted under a common social forum. Together as the ‘anonymous’ mob they smashed and looted shops, burned cars and caused possibly hundreds of millions in damage. Blame 'big society', blame 'immigrants', blame the 'welfare state', blame rap music, blame whatever thing it is you already don't like. The left blame the conservatives and the right blame the liberals. Too much, not enough. None of that really matters anyway. In the wake of these events politicians point the finger at whatever their parties favorite whipping posts are as proof of their own already set in stone opinions about 'reality'. But the reality is that the world has no real political systems: Communism, democracy, socialism, all play the same game - Capitalism.
 

They all get pushed and shoved by banks and corporations, they all do the bidding of their lobbyists, not their constituents. Politicians are vampires that take from the people they supposedly serve and feed the process of making the rich richer via the corporations they own and run. Society has taught young people today to glorify ownership of goods. They see status in their social circles based on the brand of phone, sneaker and the size of the TV they own. They quantify success based on the ownership of fashionable electronics and clothes. Brand loyalty has replaced gang associations, subculture identity centers on the type of phone chat/messaging system you use. We have, as a culture, created an entire generation whose thought systems are to consume; to buy, to use, to own and to discard.

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