We share the wonderful article by Conxita Oliver for El Temps de les Arts about the exhibition ‘Fons perdut de núvols’ by Andrés Galeano, at the MAC Mataró Art Contemporani and RocioSantaCruz gallery.
Below we show you the article Arco, the kingdom of women, by Roberta Bosco in El País on July 12, 2021, where she refers to the RocioSantaCruz stand.
Rocío Santacruz dedicated her special project to Mar Arza, who intervenes old books turning them into rare objects and who presented a large installation in homage to the Chalk Cabinet of the Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza. Santacruz also exhibited two audiovisual reinterpretations of the still life in a technological and hyper-realistic key by Marina Núñez, awarded the ARCO-Beep Prize for Electronic Art, which thus became part of this Catalan collection. Colita’s photographs, revealed by her in the 60s and 70s, completed a proposal presided over by the portraits of the 44 artists of the Bauhaus (defined with contempt “the weavers” by the machismo of the European avant-garde), gathered in a mural of 10 meters by Gonzalo Elvira.
The artist Gonzalo Elvira (Patagonia, Argentina, 1971) has been awarded the Ciutat de Palma Antoni Gelabert Award for Visual Arts 2020 for his Dream installation. Former recipients of this award include artists such as N.ria G.ell and Carles Congost. From RocioSantaCruz, we celebrate with emotion the recognition of Elvira, whose vision and sensitivity are a reference in the field of artistic creation.Elvira traces a journey through the ignote cartography of the dream.Somnis rescues stories of the fog, of this thick, infinite fog that is the unconscious. The artist took as his starting point the illustrations that Grete Stern, a German photographer, a member of the Bauhaus and exiled in Argentina, created for the magazine Idilli. The publication offered his readers a psychological consulting exercise of dream interpretation. The section soon became a sort of surrealist archive, a repository of mobs, desires, and contradictions, to which Stern accompanied with enigmatic illustrations.He would resurrect the voices of these women, he plunged into a maze of alien fears and longings to give them a new life. His compositions not only reflect the distorted reality of these stories, but give them new meanings, mixing the past and the present, the dream and the reality, the stroke and the word. In his own words, Dreams allows a “movement to certain phenomena that have recently taken place in the reality of the world that we’re living in.”The artist strips the illustrations of his original context and reproduces them on ancient maps: the woman who looks to the sky in “Ambition Dreams”, sitting on the American East; the woman who moves on to the palpentas in “The Geometry Dreams”, opening her way through Western Europe. In each image, a contained story, a voice that crosses time and space. For each of them, a piece of world.
The artist Marina Núñez presents Vanitas, a solo exhibition at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza from today until August 29, 2021.
Exhibition curated by Rocío De la Villa.
Discover a great video review of the exhibition in this press article on cyltv.es.
On the fence
The ARCOmadrid E-xhibition is presented as a virtual space, a kind of psychic representation that allows Jean Denant (Sète, France, 1979) to inscribe a mental cartography of his research.
La Traversée, a border work that separates the real from the imaginary, conscious and unconscious, represents a map of the Mediterranean in a polished stainless steel mirror, embedded in the wall, a living work that feeds and evolves with the passage of light and look.
Border between two worlds, La Traversée is the representation of reality that accompanies the archaeological traces of the artist’s passage, like men in the course of time.
Memory of exchanges in its waters, where Gauls and Romans were already fighting for the borders, a necklace of amphora rubble reminds us of the memory of exchanges between men found at the bottom of the seas.
Greek heroes have also passed through it and left their mark. The necklace of this Giant, as a vestige of mythological tales, tells us that it is in this geographical space where peoples mixed, shared their beliefs and invented their gods.
This Mediterranean, here presented as a continent, is also considered a border, sometimes as an insurmountable wall.
In Jean Denant’s work, everything is a question of construction and deconstruction, as in the Anarchitecture works that he also presents. This place, at the same time an intimate landscape that is being built and a real landscape that is being made, comes to set our gaze once again on the border, the passage from one state to another.
Like these drawings of landscapes in Palestine, the cradle of our civilization, drawings painted in cement on paper, which constitute the series États limites, in reference to this psychic organization “between two waters”, between neurosis and psychosis, which allows us to link this universal landscape, the center of our civilization, and an intimate landscape.
Jean Denant navigates between two waters in an attempt to express the fragility of the border issue, both physical and psychological, from a universal and at the same time unique point of view.
Text by Gaëlle Combes
We share some images of what was the guided tour, with the presence of Toni Ricart Giró, through the exhibition Fotoclubismos: Barcelona – São Paulo. 1932-1964, on the occasion of the Dies d’Artévete, on Friday, May 7. Toni spoke of the history, work and artistic and personal relationship of Marcel Giró and Palmira Puig, and of their belonging to the Fotoclubismo movement.
We want to thank Anna Pahissa and the entire ArtBarcelona team for organizing these days and for the initiative of this event.
The Llotja Superior School of Design and Art in Barcelona announces the fourth artist’s book award for national schools. The aim of this award is to promote the production of artist books within the different Art schools. This modality covers a great variety of plastic languages and artistic techniques. The objective of this award is to grow and contribute novelties while rewarding the exciting world of the Artist’s book.
This year, and coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the school’s collaboration with Japanese paper artisans from the city of Aoya, a special prize is being held for books made with Japanese paper. The quality, diversity, as well as the ideal printing of this paper, opens a wide range of experimentation within the book formats.
You’re able to see the winning editions of this year at the gallery from Monday 10th to Saturday 15th May or on the website of the Llotja Superior School of Design and Art in Barcelona
Photo: Cecilia Coca Peña
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of German Lorca (May 28, 1922 – May 8, 2021). Exceptional man, excellent artist and photographer. His death, at the age of 98, coincides with the inauguration today at the Moma in NY of the exhibition Fotoclubismo. Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946-1964 , where some of his most famous photographs are shown. We’ll miss you very much. Big hug for your whole family.
A Procura de Emprego, 1948-51
Rocío Santa Cruz and Germán Lorca at SP-Arte 2018
Menina na Chuva, 1952
Self portrait
This Saturday, May 8th, the exhibition Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946-1964, will be inaugurated at MoMA in New York. A spectacular retrospective of this artistic movement, curated by Sarah H. Meister and Dana Ostrander, where you could find photographs by Marcel Giró, Palmira Puig, German Lorca and Rubens Teixeira Scavone among others.
MoMA will reopen its doors with this exhibition that excites us so much and make us very proud of it as we had have the opportunity to collaborate deeply on it.
Therefore we’ve decided to extend the closing of our exhibition at the gallery, Fotoclubismos: Barcelona – São Paulo. 1932-1964, until Saturday, May 15th, so you will be able to come to visit it two weeks more.
Estudo. Palmia Puig. c. 1950
In the Arte en contexto sectionof the Colección Banco Sabadell website you can find these incredible images of the works by Mar Arza and Lluís Hortalà:
Mar Arza. En vano (celosía). 2018
Lluís Hortalà. Ante la ley. 2019-2020
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