Pedro Gramaxo was the first foreign artist to be selected for the Community Artist in Residency Program at the Mcaninch Arts Center in College of DuPage (Chicago/ Illinois,) with the support of the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, to develop two artistic projects and a group show with the art students as a guest Professor.

As part of the Visiting artist program, Pedro Gramaxo developed a public, temporary and large scale installation on campus to be witnessed as an ephemeral experience by the college students, faculty and local artists and enthusiasts.
The installation “Dimension #6” was created strongly Influenced by the Historical, social and industrial context of the Chicago’s “Great Rebuilding”, after the fire o 1871 and the research made by the artist during his residency, ins based on the great impact on Engineering design on the “Industrial Revolution” era.

“The demand for military supplies during the Civil War became the catalyst for the second stage of Chicago's rapid industrialization allowing it to emerge by the 1880s with the newest cutting-edge technologies and largest factory buildings(…)”
©Perry Duis

Just like the greatly detailed Iron structures or “Skeletons” that where the back bone of the new high rising buildings in Chicago and all across the big metropolis of the US, the artist created these black linear shapes formed from the ground up as a sculptural mimicking of the these complex structural works. The “incomplete” projected lines arise a question of boundaries, time and the overall concept of limits, such as physical or metaphysical. The work is expected to grow, just like an urban construction, but it was developed as a temporary intervention, leaving the spectator hanging in the threshold of physical memory. The importance of the tittle and series of the work lies on its concept of breaking down the Etymology of the term “Dimension”.
The Dimensions Series are part of a temporary perceptional exercise, in which the artist purpose is to disconnect viewers from a specific space, making them feel lost, uncomfortable; and invite them to participate and experiment each piece. With this process, the artist makes the viewer be aware of his/their own consciousness, that is, be aware of their own physical and psychological existence, and the necessity of being consciously aware of what we visualize.
The title of each piece is a reference to the “dimension” of it, and it’s also connected on how the artist perceive the installation and its context. Its function is to be a guideline for the viewer’s perception, and therefore, it becomes the “reality” of size. In this way, the artist controls the viewer’s perception of scale and size, and transform it to create a whole new understanding of space.