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Georgina’s Echoes is an exhibition curated by Nekane Aramburu for the Centro de Arte La Regenta (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) that explores the interconnections of different actors of Western contemporary art: among them, the photographer Miguel Rio Branco. With more than 50 works comprised by the most contemporary languages, the figure of Canary Islands artist Georgina Houghton is highlighted on the basis of her Victorian roots. As the curator describes it, “it is a curatorial essay that tries to provoke her translation to a contemporary development of methodologies and concepts pointed out by her. The curatorial axes of this exhibition are linked to the possible existence of these parallel realities as incomprehensible invisible forces that have been and are treated in different ways in contemporary creation today. Experiences interwoven in loops of non-times, where what is relevant is the independence of working methods beyond trends or classifications. From a post-pandemic 21st century loaded with new ways of understanding what surrounds us, works created in the context of the art system are tuned in as resonances close to Georgiana. Resonances that are tangibly embodied in the exhibition spaces”.

The exhibition can be visited until June 24, 2023 at the Exhibition Hall of the Instituto Canarias Cabrera Pinto.

The photographer Gloria Oyarzabal has been nominated for the Photography Prize awarded by the Enaire Foundation, aimed at promoting photographic creation and encouraging the acquisition of works for the ENAIRE Collection. The three winning works will be included in that collection.

In the series La Blanche et la Noire (USUS FRUCTUS ABUSCUS) (2022), it is part of a postmodern discourse focused on the visibilization of racial otherness. With it, Oyarzabal problematizes the museum as a container and perpetuator of the colonial discourse, rereading the plundering of African cultures that has fed the spaces that make up the museum narrative in Europe from the 18th century to the present day.

From the gallery team we wish Gloria Oyarzabal the best of luck!

On the 27th of April, 2023, the photographer Toni Amengual will open the exhibition Perles de Mallorca at Casal Solleric in Palma. It is an exhibition that brings together the most recent production of Amengual, focusing on the portrait of the island of Mallorca, where he is originally from. In the author’s own words:

“Driving around the island, photographing the infrastructures that have been built for decades to accommodate a floating population that is 15 times larger than the permanent population. A population that from one day to the next seems to have stopped floating.

“Tourism requires that natural landscapes, ethnic groups or cities are organized, geographically and symbolically, according to the requirements of commercial exploitation (i.e. the “tourist park”). The scenarios are classified and divided into units suitable for integration into the commercial network of tour operators and travel agencies. The economic exploitation of nature and local cultures is achieved when these elements are transformed into objects of “contemplation” through an iconography saturated with meanings that can be sold in the tourist industry”. (E. Illouz. The consumption of the romantic utopia. 2009).

The pearl is the result of the irritation of the oyster” – Toni Amengual

Next April 28, until May 5, 2023, Andres Galeano opens the exhibition Cumulus, at the art center the Gimp in Berlin, together with the artist Friedrich Herz.

Under the title Después de la Niebla, primeras flores. Oriente y los orientalismos, del modernismo a la modernidad, the curator, Menene Gras Balaguer, brings together 24 contemporary artists who are linked by the theme of flowers, each of them working through their own creative discourse, format and medium. Marina Núñez, with her characteristic video art, completes the exhibition, which includes drawings, paintings, photographs and installations.

The curator of the exhibition, Menene Gras Balaguer, defines the project of the exhibition as “to bring together the representation of floral forms in relation to all the contemporary productions that have been grouped together, arousing a particular interest in the validity of floral representation in contemporary art; and on the other hand, starting from the floral theme shared by these artists, to highlight the links that can be outlined between the works on display, the history that precedes them and the links that accredit their interest, as manifestations highlighted by contemporary art historiography and criticism”.

26.04.2023 – 07.01.2024

Diogo Pimentao participates in the exhibition Descuradas. Obras da Coleção Norlinda e José Lima held at the Centro de Arte Oliva in São João da Madeira (Portugal). It is a group exhibition focused on showing works belonging to the Norlinda and José Lima Collection.

From 01.04.2023 to 17.09.2023, curated by Sara & André

From 18 March to 18 June 2023, the Cordoba Biennial of Photography dedicates the monographic exhibition “Barbara Forever” to Ouka Leele. This exhibition, held at the Pepe Espaliú Art Centre (Centro de Arte Pepe Espaliú), pays tribute to one of the most important photographers of the 20th century in Spain.

The print media La Vanguardia publishes the following review of the exhibition Weeping women are angry. The article was published on 08.04.2023, written by Sonia Hernández.

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Rocío Santa Cruz curates the exhibition Salto de página. El libro de artista en el siglo XXI. Colección de Arte Banco Sabadell, in which she proposes a journey through the Banco Sabadell Art Collection, an outstanding collection of books by national and international artists, as well as works of contemporary art, which has given rise to one of the few private collections of artists’ books in Spain. The proposed route through this collection is divided into five different areas: historical background, artist’s books, object books, photobooks and self-publishing.

Works by Mar Arza, Blanca Casas Brullet and Toni Amengual can be enjoyed at the Museo de la Universidad de Alicante (MUA) until 30 April 2023.