The labyrinth: Architecture, Design and other Arts.

Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid 2003

Museu de les Arts Decoratives, Barcelona 2003

National Palace of Culture NDK, Sofia 2004

International Design Center, Budapest 2004

Curator: Juli Capella
 
When he was young, Oscar wanted to be Michelangelo, and the whole of his life has been a gradual abandonment of this supreme goal. Nonetheless, he has pursued the Renaissance ideal as few contemporary architects have done, devoting himself to architecture, interior design, industrial design and furniture, painting and writing.
    This exhibition brings together, somewhat quirkily arranged within the alphabetical order, some of his abundant creations, which plunge us into a labyrinth of concerns, proposals, obsessions and controversies. All of this sprinkled with extracts from the opinions of some of his illustrious friends, who have chosen a “voice” to describe the author.
Fiercely impassioned and individualistic, Postmodern without feeling guilty about it, more classical than avant-garde, more of a perseverer than a virtuoso, more enthusiastic than analytic, Oscar sees himself an anarcho-bougeois who does not believe that art progresses and feels that the public should be the only judge of his work.

ARCHITECTURE
    OTB’s profession and veritable passion. From Federico Correa he learnt to reason everything out, to analyse in detail and to make proposals with vigour; fascinated by Robert Venturi, he added symbology to his work. He was one of the first Postmodern architects who “did not feel guilty about being one”. He plays with our historical baggage, making what he likes his own, he takes care to build well and believes that architecture should be solid and not “trendy” as is the case at the moment. A good building should withstand the passage of time; architecture should be an art capable of being moving and a vehicle for the evocation of something beyond its mere function.