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Inés Esnal lives and works in New York, where she is a practicing architect and one of the emergent artistic talents of her generation from Spain. She established her studio in Manhattan in 2007 and had solo exhibitions at OPUS PROJECTS (526 W 26th St) (2013), the Cervantes Institute NY (2011), and the Architectural League of Madrid (2010). 

2007 - 2008  Master of Science Degree, Advanced Architectural Design. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York City
1997 - 2004  License Architect from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM). Madrid, Spain
2000 - 2001 Ècole d’ Architecture de Paris-Belleville (EAPB). Paris, France
2003 – 2013 Collaborated with architectural studios: Perkins Eastman, Enrique Norten, Cesar Ruiz Larrea, Josep Llinas and Jean Nouvel among others.

Posted 2 August 2015

Esnal’s architectural eye permeates much of the print and installation work that she creates with an intrinsic understanding and hunger for dissecting space. Her exploration of the intersections between mathematical and geometrical space and it’s softer, more poetic side have led her to create works of true depth and beauty that use the line as their key language. 

Prism
Photo: Cameron R. Neilson

Inés Esnal: Matterscapes III, detail
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Esnal takes the line from the virtual realm and into the physical space of reality by combining digital design with traditional printmaking techniques. In her prints, most recently her Materscapes series, Esnal uses the language of algorithms and 3D software to define inconceivably complex universes, playing with the placement of print plates as if pieces of a puzzle and searching for tensions between shapes

Inés Esnal: Matterscapes IV
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Inés Esnal: Matterscapes III, detail
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Inés Esnal: Matterscape IV
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Her pieces reveal weightless cosmogonies, magnetic fields or undefined structures that come to life in her embossed prints or site-specific installations. Layering lines, shapes and highlights of ochres, blues, and variations of greens and greys with cloudy washes of soft watercolor, she achieves a stunning effect of the numerical and the sublime combined in one same plane. 

Inés Esnal: Interseccion
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Inés Esnal: Interseccion
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Inés Esnal: Magnet, detail
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Ignes Esnal: Paisaje, detail
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Inés Esnal: Prism
Photo: Cameron R. Neilson

In her installation work commission, Prism, was installed at the lobby of 205 Water St in NY -, the abstraction of the line becomes tangible when vibrant lines of color, as if jumping from her prints, materialize into real space, rendering the digital into a truly experiential linescape. Esnal’s works are meaningful and exquisite.
(Originally written by Maria Nicanor, Associate Curator, Architecture
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)

Inés Esnal: Prism
Photo: Cameron R. Neilson

Inés Esnal: Prism
Photo: Cameron R. Neilson

Inés Esnal: Prism
Photo: Cameron R. Neilson

Prism brings vibrant color and optical illusion to the lobby of a new residential building at 205 Water Street, Dumbo, NY.

Made of triangular surfaces of elastic colored rope, the installation provides a powerful contrast to the concrete walls of the industrial-style lobby. Simple, curving geometries intersect, creating volumes of lit space. As the visitor walks the lobby ramp, transversal views combine the sculpture's three modules into dynamic alternate perspectives.

The artist, also an architect, was in charge of designing the building’s lobby, constructed entirely of concrete. The installation, positioned along the wall’s joint lines, acts as a filter of color to emphasize the concrete material. The zenithal light becomes rays of color like an optical prism.

Prism represents the leap of the artist’s drawings into a three-dimensional space where the abstract lines of her prints become tangible, allowing for a new material experience of her graphic work.

Inés Esnal: Prism
Photo: Cameron R. Neilson

Inés Esnal: Canopy
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Installation Design: Ines Esnal + Studio Esnal 
Building Architect: S9 architecture
Location: 205 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Size: 815 x 230x 60 cm
Date: December 2012
Assembly: Ines Esnal, Ramon Gonzalez Carballada, David Sentis Claret, Roy Scandela, Adam Birnbaum

ESNAL
ines@studioesnal.com
45 W 11th st #8b
10011, New York, Ny
USA
 

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