Are you the lucky bastard that will be assigned as caretaker of Isaac Cordal's Cement Eclipse?
“I’m not trying to tell jokes. I’m aiming to create a more critical kind of art. For me, street art is a form of combat, a way of expressing my ideas. A sort of activism,” the Galician street artist Isaac Cordal told us when we visited him in his studio in Etterbeek for our Wunderkammer series. Unfortunately, the time is more than ripe for his Cement Eclipses. The cement statuettes of riot police, businessmen, combative street rebels, and melancholy figures – little touches he has been adding to streets since 2006 – make visible things that tend to disappear in the everyday urban maze, and develop a different way of looking at our behaviour as a social mass. From this pained social mass, Isaac Cordal has selected one Cement Eclipse that he would like to leave to the care of one lucky bastard, with a signed copy of his book about his small interventions in the big city. But since there is no authority without Prestige (the name of his exhibition at Harlan Levey Projects that runs until 9 January), you will have to crawl out of your shell and show us you can handle your new best friend with care. E-mail us a picture of the crib that he’ll get to sleep in. “I see street art as something positive. I like the idea that you are giving something to the city for free.” Hell yeah, we’re jealous!
Isaac Cordal
Cement Eclipses Carpet Bombing Culture, book: 256 p., €16/book + sculpture: €150
Win 1 Cement Eclipse + book! E-mail “cordal” and a picture of the Cement Eclipse’s new crib to win@bdw.be
Photo © Heleen Rodiers
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