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Madrid City Council recognizes the figure of Ouka Leele

In order to remember the figure of the artist Ouka Leele, the Madrid City Council has placed a commemorative plaque in the place where the artist lived and worked. From RocioSantaCruz we want to share this recognition to an artist whose own imaginary and individual symbolic world marked the evolution of contemporary art in a city like Madrid.

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Colita shows in “Colita Flamenco. El viaje sin fin” at Centro Cultural Casa Surga (Utrera)

Colita shows the exhibition “Colita Flamenco. El viaje sin fin” at the Centro Cultural Casa Surga (Utrera). It is an exhibition that shows Colita’s journey through flamenco tablaos, as well as dozens of portraits and snapshots of the most important figures of this cultural phenomenon such as Antonio Gades, La Chunga, Paco de Lucía, Pepe Mairena, José Menese, Lola Flores, Juan Talega, La Piriñaca, Enrique Morente, Mayte Martín and Miguel Poveda.
In the same way, the exhibition celebrates the donation of 7 copies from 1969 to the town of Utrera, in which pictures the sisters Fernanda and Bernarda were portrayed for the book “Luces y sombras del flamenco” (1975).

22.15.2023 — 22.06.2023

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Andrés Galeano exhibits in Corrents d’imatges, in Espai d’Arts Rocaumbert (Granollers)

Andrés Galeano exhibits in Corrents d’Imatges, an exhibition that brings together five artists from Quebec and Catalonia who undertook a digital photographic correspondence in 2020, when creation was done in confinement. The processes set in motion from the space of digital conversation and concretized in residencies in Quebec and Granollers during 2022 are witnesses of a process of exploration of the power of images to build stories and transform them, to create spheres of intimacy or even to become spiritual icons. This exhibition is the culmination of a collaboration between Roca Umbert and VU Photo, with the support of the Institut Ramon Llul, the Ministère des Relations Internationales et de la Francophonie du Québec and the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec.

From March 25 to June 25, 2023.

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Marina Núñez exhibits in the exhibition CRYPTO ART: A NEW POSSIBILITY EXHIBITION, Dynamicart Museum

Two busts of a woman and a man are made up of fragments of their own faces, like archaeological remains, multiple and fragmented, of their history. A history that comes to an end when the sculptures crumble, soft and inconsistent, around roses or penetrated by lilies. If in the baroque vanitas the flowers represented a pleasant but ephemeral existence, here they remain, the fleetingness is only human. Marina Núñez presents the two single-channel videos Vanitas (1), Vanitas (2), 2019, in the exhibition CRYPTO ART: A NEW POSSIBILITY EXHIBITION at the Dynamicart Museum.

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ORLAN: “I have tried to donate my body to a museum, with no luck so far”, La Vanguardia

“At first they thought this wasn’t art, that I was crazy. That’s what they said about the impressionists and now their images are on boxes of chocolates. I hope that the same thing will happen with my body,” said the artist ORLAN at the press conference held during the opening of Weeping women Are Angry.

Don’t miss the press article published here.

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RocioSantaCruz presenta a ORLAN en un Solo Project en ARCOmadrid 2023

Acompañando la propuesta del stand de RocioSantaCruz en ARCOmadrid 2023, RocioSantaCruz ha presentado un Solo Show de ORLAN de la serie Las Mujeres que lloran están enfadadas, exhibida en el Museo Picasso de París en 2022; donde la artista se hace cargo de una serie de pinturas y dibujos de Picasso de finales de la década de 1930. Representando figuras afligidas, alegorías del sufrimiento, se inspiraron en gran medida en la fotógrafa Dora Maar, entonces compañera del pintor. Con estos montajes fotográficos, ORLAN se apoya en la fuerza visual de las obras del artista para realizar una mirada crítica, incluso acusatoria, de la relación entre el pintor y su modelo.

En palabras de ORLAN “[…] Las mujeres que lloran están enfadadas es una nueva serie de fotografías híbridas que creé para mostrar a las mujeres en las sombras: las modelos, las musas. (…) Esta nueva serie de hibridaciones de las pinturas de Picasso de Dora Maar llorando es una destrucción, reconstrucción y creación de la figura femenina que caleidoscopia el mundo en el que se mezcla. Los retratos son desdibujados por su entorno y la ira se expresa en la obra. Mis creaciones, todas políticas y feministas, se basan en una investigación visual de rostros de horror, miedo y grandeza. Entre la pintura y la fotografía, el llanto y la ira, mis figuras femeninas se hibridan y desalienan en forma pictórica, como collages brutales, extremadamente libres y desenfrenados […]”

Esta serie de trabajos serán exhibidos en RocioSantaCruz a partir del 15 de marzo de 2023.

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