The exhibition ἀρχιτέκτων (architéktōn), opening at Galeria Filomena Soares in Lisbon, presents a new series of works by Carlos Garaicoa, developed from the formal and conceptual research initiated in π = 3.1416, first shown in Madrid in early 2024. Continuing along this path, the artist revisits painting on wood—a medium he began exploring more consistently in 2019 with the installation Paisajes de trabajo—and deepens his interest in geometry, architecture, and the city as symbolic structures and frameworks for constructing thought.The works now gathered in Lisbon do not represent a full embrace of abstraction, but rather use it as a tool to reflect on the ways we organize space and knowledge. Through rigorous compositions, carefully controlled color planes, and Cartesian volumes, Garaicoa unfolds a visual vocabulary where architectural drawing, geometric art, and formal restraint intersect, alluding to the layered complexity of the contemporary world. The series Arquitectos griegos, also featured in the exhibition, builds a bridge to classical tradition, evoking figures and forms from Ancient Greece as foundational references for the idea of architecture—understood here as both language and system.

This trajectory naturally leads to the sculptural series Cristalografía/Chrystallography (2024), which began with the discovery of old Austrian crystallography models (c. 1900), acquired by the artist in an antique shop in Munich. By incorporating these historical objects into sculptures made of wood and glass, Garaicoa creates a tension between scientific rationality and poetic imagination, evoking the duality of structure and fragility, city and nature, design and ruin. These sculptures reveal an intersection between earlier projects—such as Proyecto frágil and Jardín frágil—and a new three-dimensional grammar within his work, in which sculpture emerges as an expanded, unruly territory.At the crossroads of art, architecture, and visual philosophy, Carlos Garaicoa offers a critical and sensitive reading of the urban and cultural world we inhabit, where formal construction—executed with both rigor and delicacy—exposes the fractures and contradictions of modernity.