Serie Agricultura y Tecnología, SAT 2025
An aerial view on landscape, urbanism and technology applied to agriculture

The Agriculture and Technology Series, SAT 2025, is a research project in which I combine different layers of meaning with a pictorial language.

The main objective of the project is the construction of an aerial view that allows the viewer to discover these layers of meaning. A secondary goal and one of those layers is the rapid transformation that the Spanish countryside has undergone in recent years.

The floods due to a cut-off low —or DANA—, that occurred in 2024 in Spain —especially in the Valencian Community—, the energy crisis, the recurrent droughts, and the import of agricultural products from countries with few phytosanitary controls, reinforce the need for Spain, a country with a strong agricultural sector, to design a balanced technological transformation of the countryside. Turning Spain into a huge alternative energy industrial area would drastically limit our potential and our independence.

An intelligent approach to agriculture, in which technological advances would be very present, would reduce our dependence on energy and water. It is essential to develop an urban planning model with future capacity, in which, among other things, agriculture and urban areas could be integrated.

With this new series, I am looking for a visual representation of these approaches, in which non-invasive aesthetics would also play an important role.

Painting a picture is a metaphorical activity. My main tool is drawing and the main element of a drawing is the line. Drawing is the link that can give form to what is in itself diffuse or intangible: ideas and metaphors. Color is also drawing. When I draw, metaphors and their many meanings take shape and become real.

I allow myself to create new and different models of urbanism, agriculture and technology, both of landscape and construction. New grids that organize spaces, balance contrasts and lay the foundation for new perceptions. Contact with these planes of color and form influences the conceptual search for a different, more airy and balanced space in which to live and work.

The aerial view does not only involve the observation of the surface of landscapes seen from above. It also involves getting the sense of the plates, the structures and the forces that shape the skin of landscape. In general, when we contemplate a landscape, what we see is the result of the forces in tension of the structures that make up the crust of earth.

Only art —whether it wants to or not— is capable of making these territories or their contemplation self-organized, that is, of restoring their spiritual value.

Ignacio Klindworth 2025