The sculptor from Aviles, Carlos Coronas, and the director of the EDP Foundation, Nicanor Fernández, have presented one of the light sculptures from the artist in the corporative headquarters of EDP in Oviedo. It is the Lampyridae 2017, which installation was promoted by the EDP Foundation. The work is found in the main entry of the company’s headquarters, building projected by Joaquín Vaquero Palacios.

With a polygonal structure, simulating an organic shape of zoomorphic appearance, Lampyridae 2017 occupies most of the space where it is installed. A combination of wood, fluorescent tubes and cables, the light projects on the floor, walls and vitrines, creating an infinite game that overruns the room. The composition enables the spectator to appreciate different atmospheres depending on the rhythm and breathing of the piece.

Coronas’ creation gives life, warmth and a hypnotic spectacularism to the space, slowing time and giving out a moment of pause and reflection to oneself. The work changes its light intensity through electronic systems in various seconds, situation that evokes a paused breathing, like that of the luminescent insects that inspired Coronas’ work.

This piece’s installation, that may be completed from the outside of the building, reinforces EDP’s commitment with the region’s culture. In the last months, the EDP Foundation has promoted different cultural projects, among which it is to underline the renovation of the illumination of the Museum Evaristo Valle of Gijon, and the installation of an exterior illumination of the chapel of Santa Cruz, in Cangas de Onís. Moreover, it has sponsored the last individual exhibition of the artist in the Niemeyer Center of Aviles.

Carlos Coronas is an artist from Aviles, city where he currently lives and works. His work life has followed an extensive creative journey, with numerous individual and collective exhibitions, both at a national and at an international level. Among them, it is to highlight Los territorios soñados, in the Niemeyer Center of Aviles, Lampyridae in the Mustang Art Gallery of Elche and in the Gallery Guillermina Caicoya of Oviedo, Pentágramon in the Horno de la Ciudadela de Pamplona, or Lux Aurea, in the Museum Barjola of Gijon. Likewise, Coronas has participated in diverse events like Seoul Media Art Biennale in South Korea, ARCO in Madrid, Biennale Cuvée in Linz, Austria, or It’s Simply Beautiful in Laboral Art Center.

His first pictorial works showed an abstract adscription, determined by the lighting chromaticism and the liking of non-common formats and supports, that allowed him to open to richer and more varied combinations.

The artist introduced the electric light in works in which the pictorial referent is reinforced with light compositions over architectonic surfaces, that follow the classic geometric abstraction. Throughout the last years, Corona has been working in an installation format which is site-specific (term that refers to an artistic type of work, specifically designed for a particular localization, of which a unique interrelation with space is deduced), where its pieces reach the perfect symbiosis with the space they inhabit.

About the EDP Foundation

The EDP Foundation’s goal is to reinforce Group EDP’s commitment with society in the geographic areas in which it develops its activity.

Specifically, its areas of activity are those that involve social, cultural, environmental and educative aspects, as well as those linked to the investigation, that aim for a common sustainable development.