[EXPOSITION] Cristina Almodóvar: Au-delà de la matière

EXPOSITION DU 24 MAI AU 21 JUIN 2025

DUTKO / Quai Voltaire

17 quai Voltaire - Paris 7e

Monday to Saturdayi, 10h30 - 19h

Galerie DUTKO is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in France of Cristina Almodóvar, a Spanish artist born in Madrid in 1970. A sculptor renowned for her delicate and organic universe, Cristina Almodóvar has been developing a unique body of work for over twenty years, where nature and thought engage in a subtle balance between matter and void, rationality and poetry.

A graduate in sculpture from the Complutense University of Madrid and former resident of the Casa de Velázquez, the artist explores forms inspired by living organisms — roots, branches, seeds, cells — using rigid materials such as iron or steel, which she manages to imbue with a surprising lightness.

In this first Parisian presentation, Cristina Almodóvar unveils a selection of recent works that reflect the core themes of her practice: growth, transformation, fragility, and the invisible bond between beings and their environment. Each sculpture is both structure and breath, carried by a meditative sensibility that invites contemplation.

This exhibition is an invitation to discover an important voice in contemporary European sculpture, whose work has already been acclaimed by numerous Spanish institutions. In Paris, Cristina Almodóvar reveals a new facet of her art: a quest for what lies “Beyond Matter,” marked by elegance and inner resonance.

Strength and fragility, weight and lightness, emptiness and fullness, boundaries and freedom of movement — such is the simple and joyful life that Cristina Almodóvar knows how to capture and offer to us.

— Bert Daelemans
Theologian and art critic

Everything is made from cold metal, yet it retains the warmth of the foundry — the gentle temperature of an imagination in search of the essential: the life one can feel beating and sprouting, despite everything.

— Fernando Castro Flórez
Philosopher and art critic

By what miracle can a form made of wire and subject to the law of gravity become as light as a thread of light? It is breath — the breath of the line that evokes the breath mingling with our own.

Even the eye becomes a lung, a heart and a lung whose beats allow us to see, to hear, and to act — all in rhythm with the universe.

Cristina Almodóvar knows how to give power to the gaze itself.

— Michel Bohbot
Writer and art critic

Cristina Almodóvar constructs, through each of her works, a habitable space — that symbolic house which Bachelard defined as the immensity of the intimate.

— Fernando Castro Flórez
Philosopher and art critic