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David Troice
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DAVID
TROICE

GEOMETRY & BALANCE

BIOGRAPHY

David Troice (El Paso, Texas, 1990) is a contemporary Mexican sculptor specializing in the creation of steel sculptures inspired by geometry and origami. His work merges mathematical precision and material sensitivity to transform an element associated with industrial rigidity into configurations that suggest lightness, buoyancy, and movement.

With a career that includes exhibitions at national and international fairs, Troice establishes an ethical and spatial dialogue with modern traditions, resonating with the Catalan material school and the thinking of Mathias Goeritz.

His modular structures and folded surfaces don't function as decoration, but as active systems that reorganize the environment. Through structural tension and balance, Troice proposes spatial experiences where sculpture ceases to be a static object and becomes a stabilized perceptual field.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

""Sculpture does not look, but it holds the gaze. It does not express, but it affects and rearranges space.""

FACE
The central concept alludes to an "abstract machine" for organizing meaning. The sculptures do not have human faces, but they function as such by stabilizing perception and offering a legible front through symmetry and balance, allowing for a reading without narrative.
STRUCTURAL LIGHTNESS
Steel is stripped of its symbolic gravity. Lightness is not an optical illusion, but a structural construction achieved through calculation and folding. The work transforms the material's hardness into a device of visual suspension.
ACTIVE FORMAL SYSTEM
Sculpture ceases to be merely an image or symbol, becoming instead an autonomous system. It neither narrates nor describes; it organizes. Each piece functions as a perceptual field governed by internal laws that silently reorder the relationship between body, gaze, and environment.

CONCEPTUAL GLOSSARY

Universal Geometry

Non-cultural structural language, prior to representation, that articulates form, matter, and perception.

Structural equilibrium

Material and visual condition in which opposing forces stabilize and produce a sensation of suspension.

stretched surface

Area of the metal where the time of manual labor, folding and material pressure are inscribed.

Disciplined materiality

Ethical relationship with the material based on respect, technical control and a prolonged production process.

FURTHER READING

  • Wassily KandinskyOn the spiritual in art
  • Umberto EcoThe open work
  • Hans-Georg GadamerThe relevance of beauty
  • Martin HeideggerArt and space
  • Deleuze & GuattariA thousand plateaus
  • Rudolf ArnheimArt and visual perception

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