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On the occasion of the exhibition “The vintage of Pilar Aymerich” the journalist Teresa Sesé dedicates an extraordinary article about the exhibition in La Vanguardia.

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Inauguration November 22, 2023, from 19:00 hrs

Exhibition Hall of the Government of Andorra
Parc Central, Andorra la Vella
Curated by Rocío Santa Cruz and Ricard Planas Camps
Organized by the Government of Andorra, Bonart Cultural, RocioSantaCruz and Galeria Ceysson Bénétière

ORLAN is one of the world’s most important figures in the avant-garde of the second half of the twentieth century and the twenty-first century, known for his works and performances with a strong social critique. The exhibition will be open from November 22, 2023 to February 11, 2024.

The exhibition, which will be held at the Government Exhibition Hall, will showcase some of the themes and formats that the renowned French artist has worked on throughout her career. Highlights of her early works will be on display, such as ORLAN accouchant…. de elle me aime, videos of the most iconic performances that have positioned him as one of the most controversial and vindictive artists of his generation, such as Le baiser de la artiste, and the most recent series he has produced, Women who cry are angry, a series of hybridizations based on Pablo Picasso’s paintings depicting Dora Maar crying, a special “tribute” by Orlan to the Spanish artist in the year that marks the 50th anniversary of his death.

INVITATION TO THE OPENING

The International Photography Biennial Fotonoviembre, organized by the Tenerife Island Photography Center, opens its 17th edition with a varied program that includes exhibitions, workshops, screenings, round tables and performances. The central exhibition, ¿Cuánto dura un eco?, curated by Violeta Janeiro Alfageme, exhibits works by artists such as Pilar Aymerich and Colita. This exhibition focuses on the stories and ghosts of a generation of artists who captured the feminist movement of the 1970s, influencing the construction of the “apprenticeship of freedom” that contributed to the end of Franco’s dictatorship. From 17.11.2023 to 24.03.2023 at the Centro De Fotografía Isla de Tenerife.

RocioSantaCruz Gallery participates in this edition of the Loop Festival with the work “Ombra”, by Oriol Vilapuig. This single-channel video, framed within the exhibition “Teoria dels cossos”, continues with the conceptual and artistic approach of Vilapuig’s last work: How are bodies articulated in today’s societies? What discourses and problems does the body as a container bring with it?

The exhibition “Teoria dels cossos” can be enjoyed until 25.11.2023 at RocioSantaCruz Gallery.

Gonzalo Elvira participates in the documentary Invitation au voyage. Ibiza / Taïwan / Angers, which explores the artistic, cultural and natural heritage of Ibiza, Taïwan and Angers from the perspective of Walter Benjamin. Gonzalo Elvira brings his artistic perspective and the inspiration that the German philosopher brings to his work from Ibiza, a place of inspiration for both. For the German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, the island of Ibiza was a true refuge. In 1932, the thinker, translator and art critic fled the precariousness of his life in Berlin. On the white island of Ibiza, where he met with other European intellectuals, Walter Benjamin immersed himself in local traditions to perfect his anti-capitalist thought. In this ephemeral haven of peace he wrote some of his most important texts.

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Artist Diogo Pimentão exhibits EM CONTACTO at VNBM Arte Contemporánea, from 11.11.2023 to 28.01.2023. In the show, Diogo Pimentão’s graphite creations explore the fascinating crossover between drawing and sculpture, revealing the tensions and connections between both media. Paper is transformed into sculptures that evoke the appearance of steel, capturing the essence of bodily gesture in drawing strokes, and fusing raw building materials to give life to fragile works where destruction and reconstruction are inseparably intertwined.

Thank you very much to all of you who joined us last Saturday 28th during the special reading of the correspondence between John Berger and his son Yves Berger, with the special intervention of Isabel Coixet.

From RocioSantaCruz gallery we would like to thank Isabel Coixet and Yves Berger for their generosity in sharing their family and personal relationship with John Berger, who was one of the most influential writers and art critics of the last decades.

As part of the exhibition ‘Todo paisaje es una metáfora’, Javier del Camp San José (director of the CAB in Burgos) conducts this interview, in which he explains and contextualises all of Pepo Hernando’s artistic production presented in the exhibition.

The exhibition can be seen until the 1st of December at the Centre d’Art Caixa de Burgos (C. Saldaña, S/N, 09003 Burgos).

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In the gallery called 001. PhotoVision. Reflexión y debate en la creación fotográfica (PhotoVision. Reflection and debate in photographic creation) are presented works from the series Peluquería (Hairdresser’s) by the artist Ouka Leele. This section of the exhibition, Communicating Vessels, explores the 1980s in relation to photographic production. During this period, photography centres were set up in Spain to research, exhibit and disseminate national photography, as well as specialised magazines, biennials and events that allowed for debate and photographic creation.

Ouka Leele, S/T (Serie peluqueria), 1979. Gelatinobromuro de plata coloreado a mano sobre papel © Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Cortesía Galería RocioSantaCruz

Ouka Leele, S/T (Serie peluqueria), 1979. Gelatinobromuro de plata coloreado a mano sobre papel © Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Cortesía Galería RocioSantaCruz