Bryce

Kunsthalle Bremen

01.07. – 19.11.2017

 

 

Fernando Bryce (born 1965 in Lima, lives and works in New York) has long been one of South America’s leading contemporary artists. In his work he reflects on global and geopolitical events of the 20th century. He culls archives for print material which he then reproduces, using his own, slow method of ink-on-paper drawings. He is less interested in reconstructing history than in revealing ideologically-loaded imagery and the power strategies used in print media and film. This exhibition presents a variety of recent works and a new cycle especially created for the show, which explores Bremen’s colonial history and its colonial revisionist tendencies after 1914.

 

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The artist proposes an itinerary in which the dialogue that takes place between the works and the spectator becomes fundamental. A dialogue that often moves away from words to give way to admiration, contemplation and interest in understanding the subtle, silent and dreamlike atmosphere that surrounds his universe. Self-presentation takes on new importance from materials and also through the titles of works, as Autoretrat (Self-portrait) or Autoretrat al taller (Self-portrait in the studio).

 

The artistic practice of Jordi Alcaraz transcends the traditional categories of painting, sculpture and drawing to approach the assemblage and installation, reflecting on the notion of volume, language as an idea and the passage of time. According to J. F. Yvars, “the works of art are organisms created from living materials, subjected to the alchemy of the elements and expressive techniques, which impose their verisimilitude over time. They breathe, moan, ring, crack up, and readjust in the required harmony that will sketch out the unfinished symphony of his plastic art”. The combination of materials as diverse as mirrors, books or methacrylate makes the elements interact by learning how to breathe, moan or sound together.

 

The text Plastic, which Joaquim Sala-Sanahuja dedicates to Jordi Alcaraz, focuses his attention on the plastic, on the methacrylate more concretely, and concludes as follows: “For some time the transparent “crystal” plastic has appeared to display a quality that has no name. This quality, somewhere between watery and airy, but in essence rhetorical, has been grudgingly described as something secret that cannot be divulged since its limits are still not known. Experts proclaim it as a shiny but also extremely unctuous material. It can be used for anything. It is the material that substitutes all others. The fact it shines is not a shortcoming. And it is a substitute for everything”.

Confesion xeral

CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela

30.06 – 17.09.2017

 

Confesión general es una retrospectiva de Luis Gordillo, comisariada por Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, director del Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla y Santiago Olmo, director del CGAC.

La exposición es la primera muestra del artista sevillano en Galicia y permite realizar un recorrido por su trabajo desde las series de dibujos de raíz informalista de finales de los años cincuenta hasta las obras fotográficas y pictóricas en las que se emplea las lonas como soporte y las infografías como herramientas.

Se trata de una retrospectiva clásica con numerosas obras inéditas o poco conocidas, especialmente dibujos, así como algunas obras en proceso que recrean el clima de su estudio.

Confesión general que ha podido verse en el CAAC de Sevilla y, desde este mes de marzo, en Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea en Donostia-San Sebastián, se inaugurará en el CGAC en junio de 2017 y cerrará su ciclo presentándose el próximo otoño en La Alhambra y el Centro José Guerrero de Granada.

 

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Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

02.07 – 05.11.2017

 

In Modernism, abstraction is regarded as one of the most significant formal articulations and is particularly linked to painting. The consistent analysis of the medium up to the zero point in the avant-garde of the 1910s followed a steady resurgence of non-representational painting, especially in abstract expressionism, in informal and minimal art Painting and the creative authority, which was countered with sensuality and intuition in the postmodern phase from the 1980s onwards.

The exhibition Abstract Painting Now! Will focus on the current international situation of the non-figurative panel painting with about sixty artistic positions and will fan out the wide field of a still significant painter’s practice. The historical basis of the show is the development following Abstract Expressionism, which was supported above all by Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. The former, after a period of agony, in which his gray colorings emerged, turned to the beautiful, seemingly expressive. The latter used abstraction as an ironic paraphrase, commenting on the veracity of the brush stroke as a mark of the artistic self. 

 

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daybreak

29.06 – 02.07.2017

Aslyum / AMP / Safehouses

 

Daybreak is an exciting project initiated by the RCA’s School of Fine Art to provide a forum for the practice-based researchers engaged in the School’s MPhil and PhD programme.  This is the first time the School’s student researchers have come together to work on an off-site project, working closely with each other, staff from the School with curatorial expertise and outside professionals.  The result; an exhibition, live event and research symposium, will happen over four days at the end of June and include contributions by over 40 research students.  

 

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Usle

24.06.2017 – 01.01.2018

La Fundación Botín presenta una selección de obra perteneciente a su colección. La muestra tendrá lugar en la primera planta del Centro Botín. Adquiridas en el curso de las últimas décadas, las piezas expuestas ofrecen perspectivas de los artistas a los que la Fundación ha decidido apoyar y con los que ha colaborado a lo largo de ese periodo.

 

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CentroCentro, Madrid

23.06 – 01.10.2017

 

Nuestro deseo es una revolución muestra cómo diversas prácticas artísticas y discursivas gays, lésbicas y queer han combinado los lenguajes de las vanguardias artísticas y la iconografía y modos de hacer de las subculturas de la calle para politizar la representación del cuerpo y la sexualidad, para cuestionar el funcionamiento de las esferas pública y privada y para releer la historia hegemónica que invisibiliza a los sujetos marginales.

 

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Los Bragales

Valey Centro Cultural de Castrillón

    Piedrasblancas – Asturias

23.06 – 16.09.2017

 

En la Colección los Bragales se han identificado 52 obras en donde el blanco y negro y la escala de grises está presente. Hemos realizado una selección de 16 obras para en donde 7 identifican la fotografía y 9 en pintura para la exposición del Centro Valey.

 

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Generaciones es un proyecto que evoluciona con cada edición, adecuando su propuesta a las demandas de la creación contemporánea y actualizando su oferta, por lo que se ha convertido en un referente entre la comunidad artística de nuestro país, habiendo participado durante estos años más de 15.000 artistas.

De entre los casi de 400 participantes que se han presentado a Generaciones 2018, Bea Espejo, crítica de arte y responsable de arte en Babelia (El País), Margarida Mendes, comisaria independiente y Directora de La Escuelita (CA2M) y Valentín Roma, director de La Virreina, ha seleccionado los 10 proyectos artísticos ganadores.

En febrero de 2018 se celebrará la exposición que reúne los proyectos de los diez artistas seleccionados y se editará un catálogo bilingüe español/inglés.

 

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museo la tertulia

Casa Obeso Mejía, Museo La Tertulia,  Santiago de Cali

 

22.06 – 05.08.2017

 

Curaduría de Lina López

 

Una casa por definición es un recinto destinado a ser habitado. ¿Qué pasa cuando la casa no está habitada? Al carecer de función fija o de estatus definido, entra en un espacio liminal, un espacio indeterminado y suspendido entre dos dimensiones: ya no es lo que era y no es aun lo que será.

 

¿Cómo acceder a ese espacio? ¿Qué nos revela la casa? ¿Podemos comunicarnos con ella? ¿Cómo recorrer un espacio en múltiples dimensiones? ¿Cómo acceder a las diferentes capas que conforman a un objeto o un lugar?

 

 

Erick Beltrán propone un recorrido extrasensorial por la Casa Obeso Mejía, guiado por una médium, planteando un mapa de mapas o un palacio de la memoria como hilo conductor. El trabajo de este artista mexicano desafía los preceptos convencionales de la exposición centrándose no en los objetos inanimados, sino en los procesos invisibles de construcción de la información que crean nuestra relación al mundo. Su obra cobra vida a través de los intercambios humanos, de la memoria y la construcción de nuevas relaciones que revalorizan los conceptos de objeto, presencia y experiencia.

Para esta ocasión,  crea un archivo de mapas para localizar o identificar una dimensión, para acceder a ella o pasar a otra. Localizar es intentar definir la esencia de un lugar y esta no se establece de una manera lineal sino en múltiples dimensiones a un mismo tiempo.

 

 

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Arts Santa Monica

Espai Residència, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona

20.06 – 23.07.2017

 

Invertint l’exhibicionisme de la mostra personal, “Agència en avenir” planteja un exercici de recuperació i d’agençament del treball de Javier Peñafiel, en què assaig i biografia s’hibriden, centrant l’atenció en els característics «enigmes» que l’habiten. A través d’aquestes frases, radicals en la seva ambigüitat i que amaguen autèntics assajos crítics sobre la contemporaneïtat, l’exposició reflexiona sobre l’avenir que ens ocupa.

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Bibliotecas insolitas

La Casa Encendida, Madrid
16.06 – 10.09.2017

 

La Casa Encendida presenta la exposición colectiva Bibliotecas insólitas comisariada por Gloria Picazo. La muestra parte de lo que ha supuesto la biblioteca como espacio que ha custodiado y sigue custodiando el conocimiento reunido y almacenado por la humanidad a través de los siglos.

Artistas
Ignasi Aballí / ALIAS / Clara Boj y Diego Díaz / Fernando Bryce / Iñaki Bonillas / Antònia del Río / Enric Farrés Duran / Dora García / Javier Peñafiel / Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa / Francesc Ruiz / Oriol Vilanova.

 

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Muntadas

In Girum Revisited” by Muntadas
Screening
Saturday June 17 – 6 pm
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
 
 
Carte blanche to Antoni Muntadas

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin invited Antoni Muntadas for a carte blanche session, including notably the international première of “In Girum Revisited”, his latest video piece.
 

Antoni Muntadas was born in 1942 in Barcelona. After studying architecture and engineering in Barcelona, Muntadas dedicated himself to art, and ever since 1971,he has focused specifically on video production. He settled in the U.S., where he was granted a fellowship, then became a professor at the Center of Advanced Visual Studies (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He now lives in New York and is a professor of the practice in MIT’s Department of Architecture, heading its Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). He is also a professor at the Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura del Veneto in Venice.


Antoni Muntadas was an early pioneer of video and installation art in the mid-seventies, and he has continued to work with photography, video, installation art, audio recording, and urban art. Over four decades, Muntadas has been developing these projects, which critically reflect on key issues in the configuration of contemporary experience. His aim is to detect and decode the control and power mechanisms through which hegemonic ways of seeing are built, and explore the decisive role played by the mass media in this process. In his works, which always reflect a clear creative process and often make a direct appeal to viewer participation, Muntadas uses an array of media, languages and discursive strategies that encompass interventions in public space, video and photography, the publication of printed material, the use of Internet and new digital tools, multimedia installations, and the organisation of multidisciplinary, collaborative research projects.


Muntadas has taught and directed seminars at diverse institutions throughout Europe and the United States, including the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, the Fine Arts Schools of Bordeaux and Grenoble, the University of California in San Diego, the San Francisco Art Institute, Cooper Union, the University of São Paulo, and the University of Buenos Aires. He has also served as a resident artist and consulting advisor for various research and education centres including the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, the Banff Centre in Alberta, Arteleku in San Sebastian, The National Studio for Contemporary Arts Le Fresnoy, and the University of Western Sydney. His work has been exhibited in numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. His work has been included in international events and venues such the 9th and 10th editions of Documenta Kassel (1977, 1997), the Whitney Biennial of American Art (1991), the 51st Venice Biennial (2005), and others in São Paulo, Lyon, Taipei, Gwangju, and Havana. His solo exhibitions have also appeared at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, the Centro de las Artes in Sevilla and the Centre d’art contemporain in Thiers. He presented an installation at the Inter-Society of Electronic Arts in San José, California in 2006, the Telefónica Foundation Space, the Recoleta Cultural Center, and the Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires in in 2007, and the Cervantes Institute in Paris in 2008. In 2009, he carried out an art intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. In Montréal,his work was shown at the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art and at the Cinemathéque Quebécoise. Supported by the program Lives And Works in Istanbul, he exhibited at the Istanbul Modern Museum in 2010. More recently, there was a Muntadas retrospective at the Reine Sofia Museum, showcasing his”Entre/Between”, which ran from 2011 to 2012. In 2013, his work was exhibited inside Pinacoteca Station in Sao Paulo.It has also been shown at Galeria Michella Rizzo in Venice and at Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz in Madrid. His exhibit”About Academia”, previously installed in 2011 at The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, traveled to the Audain Gallery in Vancouver in early 2013.


Muntadas is the recipient of numerous prizes and grants from institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Arts Electronica in Linz. He received the Laser d’Or prize (considered the “Oscar of Video Art”) from the International Association for Video in the Arts and Culture in Locarno, the National Prize of Plastic Arts from the Catalan Government, and the National Prize of Plastic Arts (2005) and the Velázquez Plastic Arts Prize (2009) from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

 

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Perejaume Llull

Una instal·lació de Perejaume

Inauguració dissabte, 3 de juny, a les 19.30h

Cartoixa d’Escaladei (Priorat)

 

 

Intervindran l’artista Perejaume i Glòria Picazo, comissària del projecte. Després de l’acte inaugural, a les vuit del vespre, tindrà lloc una acció poètica amb Josep Pedrals, Martí Sales, Núria Martínez Vernís, Joan Todó, Enric Casasses, Andreu Subirats, Maria Cabrera i Dolors Miquel.