毕尔巴鄂市神圣艺术博物馆前的巨大充气装置CUERPO GRIS

为庆祝毕尔巴鄂市成立722周年，当地于2022年6月17日和18日举行了Gau Zuria节（白夜节）。在本次活动中，28项艺术装置改变了巴斯克首都的城市景观。

Gau Zuria (White Night) festival took place on the 17th and 18th of June 2022, for the 722nd jubilee of Bilbao City Foundation. On the occasion, 28 artistic interventions transformed the Basque capital’s urban landscape.

Cuerpo Gris有着灰色的外观，是一个针对特定场所的装置，分布在从前Encarnación修道院的回廊上。装置可以在几分钟内形成一个雄伟的有机体，占据这座16世纪建筑的中央花园。该装置的连续性、紧致和柔软的质地打破了拱门的重复语言和石雕的刚性构造。

Cuerpo Gris (Grey Body), is a site-specific intervention spreading over the cloister of the former Convento de la Encarnación. In a few minutes, an imposing organic volume was displayed, colonizing the central garden of the 16th Century building. The installation’s continuous, slinky, and soft body disrupts the archery’s repetitive language and the carved stones’ rigid tectonic.

这个全新的装置以激进的方式改变了回廊。Cuerpo Gris在空间中展开，蜿蜒在百合喷泉周围的花园中，百合喷泉是庭院中心的象征元素。充气结构遵循庭院的主轴，柔软的体量由三个可变直径的切线块组成，其线长总和超过120米，高度可达6米。 由于对场地的详细研究及严谨的手工制作，Cuerpo Gris完美适应了回廊地形。它扎根于地面，缠绕着黄杨木灌木丛，并连接了百年橄榄树的曲线。

This new volume affects the cloister in a radical manner. Cuerpo Gris unfolds in space, winding between the elements of the garden around the lily fountain which remains as a central symbolic element. The inflated structure follows the main axes of the courtyard and its soft body is composed of three tangent pieces of variable diameters, which sum more than 120 meters of lineal length and reach a height up to 6 meters.  Thanks to a detailed study of the site and a handcrafted production of the patronage, Cuerpo Gris adapts to the cloister’s topography. Rooted in the ground, it ties the boxwood bushes and absorbs the centenary olive tree in its twists. 

充气装置经过拱形门洞，为空间提供了碎片化视野。该装置允许与参观者进行互动：Cuerpo Gris会限制人们的行动，或是把人卷入其中，在私密的空间里轻轻地包裹住参观者，或邀请人们跨过它。它又像一个令人生畏的秘密空间，把参观者困在其中，压迫人们的视野。庞大的外观给人们带来一种从未感受过的奇妙视觉体验。

The experience of the atmosphere is materialized in a series of cavities proposing a fragmented vision of the space. The installation plays with the visitor: Cuerpo Gris alternatively immobilizes you, rolls you up softly in intimate spaces, expels you or invites you to straddle it. A monstrous corps that traps you in its interior and oppresses your gaze. The monumental appearance confronts the human body with a strange presence which is never revealed completely.

Martillo Neumático是一个年轻的团体，对在特地场地建造庞大的临时装置有着浓厚的兴味。他们的作品自发地出现，改变着城市空间的常态。2019年，他们建造了Eclipse，一个在马略卡岛帕尔马Insolit Festival上的获奖项目。2020年他们为托尔托萨的A Cel Obert音乐节展出了Desplome（Collapse），这是一座位于前Iglesia dels Dolors废墟中的反纪念碑。

Martillo Neumático is a young collective interested in ephemeral site-specific interventions with a monumental quality. Their works show up spontaneously, willing to alter the usual dynamics of urban space. In 2019 they carried out Eclipse, the winning project of Insolit Festival in Palma de Mallorca. Among other works, in 2020 they presented Desplome (Collapse), a counter-monument located in the ruins of the former Iglesia dels Dolors, for the festival A Cel Obert of Tortosa.

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Project name: CUERPO GRIS

Company name: MARTILLO NEUMÁTICO

Website: http://martillo-neumatico.com/

Contact e-mail: neumaticomartillo@gmail.com

Project location: Museo de Arte Sacro de Bilbao, Encarnacion Plaza, Bilbao

Completion Year: 2022

Building area (m²): 900m2

Other participants:

Martillo Neumatico: Roman Sost, Ramon Cano, Iñigo Barrón and Jerome Llorente. Collaborators :Inés Miño, Ana Moure, Cesar Fuertes, Tarino Cano y Patricia Salazar.

Photo credits: Antonio Bouzas Barcala (Instagram: @abw.ork)