Patrick Hamilton presents the work The Red Greenhouse Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque, Madrid

The Red Greenhouse is a sculpture designed for public space that consists of a metal greenhouse of the "tunnel" type whose crystals have been replaced by translucent red methacrylate. The sculpture has an interactive character since, on the one hand, it allows to be seen from the outside and also to enter it and thus look from the inside to the outside. The view from the inside will be tinted red; that is, the translucent walls of the greenhouse will act as a filter that colors the sight and, therefore, the landscape and the people who are outside.
This work is simple from a technical perspective, but the visual interaction involves several associations and metaphors related to climate change - greenhouse gases, for example - to the color red as a color loaded with history and psychology -Blood, fire, incandescence, infrared radiation- as well as something dangerous -the red flag-. In economics, red is also the distinctive color of falls, "the red numbers," they speak that something is wrong.
This intervention commissioned by MadBlue and explicitly designed for the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque aims to dialogue us of many crises, from environmental to economic, and does so by standing at the intersection of sculpture, installation, architecture, and the pictorial. Projecting itself between the material and the illusory, the social and the domestic, the political and the poetic, the ornamental and the monumental, the public and the private, as is usual in Patrick Hamilton's works.
The installation can be visited until May 2, 2021, in the Patio Sur of the Center, from Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 9 pm, Sundays from 10:30 am to 2 pm.