Born Madrid, Spain, 1997
Lives Paris, France
Javier Carro Temboury (Madrid, 1997) takes a special interest in the processual and social aspects of sculpture. Through the found object, notably in ceramics, he explores the social reception of technologies and their different local developments.
He lives between Madrid and Paris, where he maintains close ties after graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. After receiving the jury’s congratulations, in 2022 he was awarded the ASA residency at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Vienna. In the same year, he received the Joseph Ebstein Sculpture Prize (Fondation de France) and the “Felicité des Felicités” award (Fondation des Amis des Beaux-Arts), and one of his sculptures became part of the collections of L’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
His exhibition cycle “Café Transversal” brings together social interaction and sculpture in a series of performances specifically imagined for each venue in which it takes place. The project has recently been commissioned by the Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Madrid; the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain MAMC+ in Saint-Étienne; in Pech, Vienna; the Palais d’Iéna, Paris and the Villa Belleville, Paris. His work will soon be the subject of a permanent commission in a residential building in Montreuil, France. Recently he presented 2/4 Flea Market a solo exhibition at Centre Pompidou Metz, Paris, and Inciso at Campeche, Mexico city between others.
“Javier Carro Temboury’s first step is research. At flea markets or through random encounters, he starts by collecting ceramic vessels and objects. Questioning their use and utility, bearing the marks of different eras and places, these objects speak, in subtle ways, of the people who held them, touched them, made them, but also of the notion of effort and labour...
The very act of making, and the link between art, craft and industry, are at the heart of the Spanish-born artistic approach. He questions how, from a distance, we receive and understand the culture of others, while at the same time his conceptual approach is sensitive to touch and matter.“
Text by Marie Maertens