Photo London 2018
17.05.2018 - 20.05.2018
RocioSantaCruz participates at Photo London 2018 with vintage photographs by Marcel Giró (Badalona, Spain, 1913-2011) and German Lorca (São Paulo, Brazil, b. 1922) – members of Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante (São Paulo, 1950s), as well as with conceptual works by Ferran Garcia Sevilla (Palma de Mallorca, Spain, b. 1949) and a post-photographic project “Unknown Photographers” by Andrés Galeano (Mataró, Spain, b. 1980).
SP-Arte / 2018
11.04.2018 - 15.04.2018
RocioSantaCruz participates in São Paulo international art fair SP-Arte/2018 with the works by Mar Arza (Castellón de la Plana, 1976) and Lluís Hortalà (Olot, 1959).
ARCOmadrid 2018
21.02.2018 - 25.02.2018
RocioSantaCruz participates in the International contemporary art fair ARCOmadrid2018, which takes place from 21st to 25th February.
We are happy to welcoming you at our booth 7G03 where we present a set-up that resonates with the spirit of the gallery: the intergenerational dialogue and rereading of the avant-gardes of the second half of the 20th century in the framework of contemporary art.
This year our ARCO stand includes past and current work by Ferran Garcia Sevilla and Pep Duran, and the latest audiovisual production by Lois Patiño, as well as a selection of iconic photographers from the Escola Paulista of Brasil: Marcel Giró and German Lorca. As every year, works by our other artists are also presented.
UNTITLED Miami 2017
06.12.2017 - 10.12.2017
Miami Beach
RocioSantaCruz participates at the Untitled Art Fair with the works by Mar Arza and Lluís Hortalà, with the series of photographies Sky Studies by Andrés Galeano, with a conceptual work by Ferran Garcia Sevilla and with a selection of photographies by Marcel Giró.
Paris Photo 2017
09.11.2017 - 12.11.2017
RocioSantaCruz participated at the Paris Photo 2017 with the conceptual work by Ferran Garcia Sevilla and a selection of vintage photographs by Marcel Giró.
LOOP Fair 2017
25.05.2017 - 26.05.2017
The gallery RocioSantaCruz participates in Loop Fair 2017 with the video El fuego de la visión of Marina Núñez
El fuego de la visión (The Fire of Vision) is a video installation composed of three pieces each just over a minute long. The three videos, titled just like the installation, are subtitled César, Luis and Rocío, respectively. They share not only the same intentionality, but also a similar structure that can be divided into two parts: the first shows how an eye emerges from inside greyish waves, the iris being light in colour, the black of the pupil emphasised; the eye seems to stare at us, unblinking yet agitated, upset —as can be perceived in its movements and the pupil’s contractions and dilations. The second part begins when a protuberance black as coal emerges and begins to morph into colours, forms, and even textures, abstractions which evoke something organic and undefined, completely removed from any element we might be capable of recognising in the real world.
Marina Núñez’s three videos are unsettling, not just due to the strangeness of the elements that spring up from the pupil, nor the sound that accompanies them, but because they bluntly bring us closer to the role that we grant to the gaze of the other. That gaze, the work’s main theme, not only receives this status because the protagonist is the eye —the organ whose responsibility it is to detect what surrounds us and deliver it to the brain— but also because it makes us think, it indicates to us that what makes those bizarre elements issue from within the pupil is the result and the product of what was seen beforehand: none other than we ourselves.
As some living thing lacking rest or end: that’s how the artist presents the eye that gazes at us, as well as the resulting vision from which “the fire” (a kind of unveiling of the observer’s interior) appears to emerge. El fuego de la visión acts as a metaphor that recalls the bewilderment and fear we feel as recipients of another’s look. It reminds us how when we confront that stare, our own phantoms and spectres surface, perhaps hidden in the deepest strata of our thoughts.
The language Marina Núñez uses by no means leaves us indifferent; it oscillates between the artificial and what we could label as organic. Playing with iconographic elements and forms that originate in science fiction, she manages to make us feel observed, as if the immobile eye were the objective of a camera that recorded us, and as if, with any movement, we could trigger acts of unforeseeable consequences.
Photo London 2017
18.05.2017 - 21.05.2017
Somerset House
Londres
RocioSantaCruz participates in Photo London 2017 with photographs of Jesús Madriñán, Lois Patiño, Lluís Hortalà, Miguel Trillo and Marcel Giró.
ARCOmadrid 2017
22.02.2017 - 26.03.2017
RocioSantaCruz participates in ARCOmadrid with a duo proposa, an artist related with the Escola Paulista in São Paulo on the 30s and 50s and another one from the conceptual art of Barcelona in the mid The 1960s to the late 1970s.
The revision of the very little known conceptual work of Ferran Garcia Sevilla (Palma de Mallorca, 1949) and the photographic work, unpublished in Spain, by the Brazilian Marcel Giró (Badalona, 1913).
UNTITLED Miami 2016
30.11.2016 - 04.12.2016
Miami Beach
Swab 2016
29.09.2016 - 02.10.2016
RocioSantaCruz atended the ninth edition of Swab Barcelona with the works of the artists Mar Arza, Ana Garcia-Pineda and Ignasi Rosés.
Unseen 2016
23.09.2016 - 25.09.2016
RocioSantaCruz attended the UNSEEN photo fair & festival held in Amsterdam from september 23rd untill the 25th with the works of Jesús Madriñán, Lois Patiño, Lluís Hortalà & Miguel Trillo.
ArtMarbella 2016
29.07.2016 - 03.08.2016
RocioSantaCruz attended the last edition of ArtMarbella which was held from the 29th of july untill the 3rd of august with the works of Pep Duran, Lluís Hortalà, Jordi Teixidor, Ignasi Rosés, Mayte Vieta, Mar Arza y Martin Parr.
Paris Photo
12.11.2015 - 15.11.2015
RocioSantaCruz took part in the last edition of Paris Photo, one of the sector’s leading fairs. Only two Spanish galleries were represented at the fair. The 20th edition was cancelled two days into its celebration because of the tragic events occurred on 13th November. The Parisian galleries that took part in Paris Photo exhibit again the works presented at their booths so the public can have the chance to see them.
Swab 2015
01.10.2015 - 04.10.2015
RocioSantaCruz participated in the last, eighth edition of Swab Barcelona.