Isaac Cordal (b. 1974) is a Spanish installation and street artist currently lives and works across Brussels and Galicia. Cordal attained his degree in Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Pontevedra and received qualification of the conservation of stone crafts at the Camberwell College of Arts in London. Since 2006, he has been engaged in a nomad project called Cement Eclipses. He uses miniature sculptures amongst urban streets to criticise modern society, bringing small interventions in the big city.
With the act of miniaturization and thoughtful placement, he expands the imagination of pedestrians with his sculptures on the street. Cement Eclipses is a critical definition of human behaviour as a social mass. His work intends to catch the attention on our devalued relation with the nature through a critical look to the collateral effects of our evolution. With the master touch of a stage director, the figures are placed in locations that quickly open doors to other worlds. The scenes zoom in the routine tasks of the contemporary human being.
Men and women are suspended and isolated in a motion or pose that can take on multiple meanings. The sympathetic figures are easy to relate to and to laugh with. They present fragments in which the nature, still present, maintains encouraging symptoms of survival. The precariousness of these anonymous statuettes, at the height of the sole of the passers, represents the nomadic remainders of an imperfect construction of our society. These small sculptures contemplate the demolition and reconstruction of everything around us. They catch the attention of the absurdity of our existence.
Cordal is sympathetic toward his little people and we can empathize with our situations, our leisure time, our waiting for buses and even our more tragic moments such as accidental death, suicide or family funerals. The sculptures can be found in gutters, on top of buildings, on top of bus shelters; in many unusual and unlikely places.
He has been exhibiting as an artist with exhibitions in Barcelona, Belgium, Brussels, Bogatá, London and San Jose.
