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Pablo del Pozo

June 15, 7pm : visit with the artist

July 20, 7pm : visit with the artist in conversation with Gisela Chillida

 

 

Before today my body was useless.

Now it’s tearing at its square corners.

Anne Sexton, “The Kiss“, Love Poems

 

We are pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Pablo del Pozo at Galeria Joan Prats, entitled Mi boca florece como un corte [My mouth blooms like a cut], which includes tapestries and recent sculptures in different fabrics and sizes.

 

After his exhibition Cuando iba, iba con ella, y cuando volvía, me encontré con ella (2018) at the gallery with Aïda Andrés Rodrigálvarez – in which Pablo del Pozo used materials such as clay, plaster, pigments and recovered objects, to talk about the scarcity of the life as an everyday reality-, now the artist opts for a new line of research in which he adopts unprecedented themes and materials in his work.

 

The title of the exhibition belongs to the first verse from the poem “The Kiss” by the American writer Anne Sexton (1928-1974). The fortuitous find of this example of poetry, whose core revolves around the idea that wounds can also cause beauty, has become a catalyst to take Poetry -in capital letters- as a form of understanding, passion and creation, especially poetry written by women authors, among which the poets Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson or Anne Carson stand out.

 

Pablo del Pozo presents in this exhibition a multidisciplinary project focused on the germination of life and the celebration of desire in a new nature, in a new habitat. It is a formal investigation, mainly sculptural, for which he used textile materials, from twine and jute fabric to lycra and wool, made with some traditional techniques, mainly crochet, and also others more moderns like hand tufting. The artist has created the works by hand, in a laborious process that has required a long time to produce them and which, at the same time, has allowed him to revalue what are considered “feminine labors”.

 

The works of Mi boca florece como un corte are characterized by their organic forms, which refer to organisms such as flowers, hanging plants, but also to viscera or moist bodies, and whose conception has drawn on branches such as botany and zoology. For the wool, fabric and rope sculptures, together with the tapestries, Pablo del Pozo has based himself on the microscopic wefts of plant and human cells, which he has tried to replicate through sewing patterns. In the case of the lycra pieces, the petals are transfigured into a texture reminiscent of shiny skin in a state of perspiration, a sheen that refers to costume fabric and party clothes, to the enjoyment of life. The structure of the flowers – the reproductive organs of plants that attract fauna to expand and colonize the territory – leads us to the idea of desire as one of the central points of the exhibition.

 

Based on these images, Pablo del Pozo creates a natural environment where he can offer a haven that brings death and life closer. And it is that, as the writer and editor Patricia Castro affirms, about the display, “The multiplicity of the alive attacks the certainties of a world paved where the flowers have to grow in the hard shoulder. Are prevented from sprouting. Plant, animal, men or women now don’t mean the same. The end is near, do you feel it? Embrace it. And don’t be scared of the unknown. Welcome back to the life.”

 

Pablo del Pozo (Badajoz, 1994) lives and works in Barcelona. He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2017). He has been selected at the Valls Biennial, Guasch-Coranty Award (2017), or which he has been part of the exhibition at the Centre Tecla Sala in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat (2018). He has been part of the circuit of the Jeune Création Européenne Biennial (2017-9) with exhibitions in museums in various European cities: Montrouge, France (2017); Hjorring, Denmark; Cēsis, Latvia; Cluj, Romania (2018); Como, Italy; Figueres, Spain, and Amarante, Portugal (2019). He has also received the creation award from the Sala d’art Jove de la Generalitat de Catalunya (2017), and he exhibited in the group show in this space in June 2018. He has recently been nominated for the Miquel Casablancas Award (2019), his work has been exhibited at Fabra i Coats, and, in the solo show Al muerto, tiempo encima, curated by Jordi Garrido, at the Fundació Arranz Bravo in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat.

 

Video of the exhibition

 

Madrid, 1986. Live and works in Barcelona.

 

Julia Varela is an artist who works on the medium and materiality of images in the age of digital technology. Her research focuses on the states adopted by the irrepressible who resist representation.

The physical form of her work analyses the globalization of industries, technological matter and the concept of visuality. Her work intensifies our physical interaction with devices and their mechanisms, providing an alternative understanding of notions such as context and desire.

Julia has been part of the Critical Images research program in Kungl Konsthögskolan Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and a master’s degree in Art Sculpture from the Royal College of Art London. Her latest exhibitions have taken place at: Centro de Cultura Contemporánea CondeDuque, Madrid; Fundació Suñol, Barcelona; Somerset House, London; Belgrade Cultural Centre BCC, Belgrade; Listost Gallery, Prague; Decad, Berlin; Yamakiwa Gallery, Japan; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Galleri Mejan, Stockholm; Resartis, Melbourne; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; CUL DE SAC Gallery, London.

Aïda Andrés Rodrigálvarez & Pablo del Pozo

JOAN PRATS warehouse, Passatge Saladrigas 5, Barcelona

By appointment at 932 160 284

Exhibition: 05/09/2018 – 26/10/2018

 

As part of artnou, Galeria Joan Prats presents the work of two young artists, Aïda Andrés Rodrigálvarez (Barcelona, 1985) and Pablo del Pozo (Badajoz, 1994).

 

Their works deal with the relationship that is established between the individual and the space surrounding, from an everyday point of view. The territory and nostalgia, the search for a refuge, the passage of time are important topics in their work, together with the environment. We will show installations of the two artists, that have been made from found objects and materials exposed to the elements.

 

Aïda Andrés Rodrigálvarez is interested in the impression that light, the environment and the passage of time is producing on paper. The techniques of lithography and pinhole photography allow her to work with a dilated temporality, as well as to investigate the color. In her artistic practice, paper and fabrics are left at the mercy of the elements, thus becoming photosensitive materials.

 

On the other hand, the works by Pablo del Pozo have a strong autobiographical character, linked to the experiences of the artist. The feeling of belonging to a place, displacement and nostalgia are subjects that concern him. From the characteristics of the materials used (clay, plaster, pigments and also found objects), he seeks to talk about the precariousness of life, thus generating a reflection on the daily reality.

 

 

 

Aïda Andrés Rodrigálvarez (Barcelona, 1985) lives and works in Barcelona. She owns a Master’s Degree in Artistic Productions and Research (2015-16) and a a Degree in Fine Arts (2014) from the University of Barcelona. She have also an Architecture Degree from the ETSAB, Barcelona (2010). She has individually exhibited at Fundació Arranz-Bravo at L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (2017), in the Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell (2016) and at Tinta Invisible, Barcelona, (2014). She has been granted by Institut Ramon Llull for the Jeune Création Européenne Biennale, has received the production grant Felicia Fuster (2018), Guasch-Coranty  (2016) and the prize Arranz-Bravo (2017).

 

Pablo del Pozo (Badajoz, 1994) lives and works in Barcelona. He owns a Degree in Fine Arts (2014) from the University of Barcelona (2017). He has individually exhibited at Centre Tecla Sala de L’Hospitalet de Llobregat), at Le Beffroi de Montrouge, París (2017) and at the Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell (2016). He has been selected to the Biennal de Valls, the Guasch-Coranty prize (2017) and to the Jeune Création Européenne Biennale (2017-8) with exhibitions in several European cities like Montrouge, France (2017); Hjørring, Denmark; Cēsis, Latvia; Cluj, Romania (2018); Como, Italy; Figueres and Amarante, Portugal (2019). He also has been granted by a production scholarship by the Sala d’art Jove de la Generalitat (2017), where he will show during June 2018.