2023-09-11 19:50:32
BARCELONA GALLERY WEEKEND
Seven curators from the local context propose seven itineraries to visit the galleries of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023.
The texts by Sara Catalán, Pilar Cruz, Mariella Franzoni, Sabel Gavaldon, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani, Zaida Trallero and Veronica Valentini will serve as a guide to discover the exhibitions through their particular perspectives.
With 24 individual or double exhibitions and 27 artists in total, the participation of the artists exceeds a third of exhibitions.
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat: Gabriel Virgilio Luciani,
NoguerasBlanchard. Anne-Lise Coste: Emoji peace dove Emoji red heart Emoji blue butterfly
Again, we are visual beings. Anne-Lise Coste surely knows that. She summarizes the power of propaganda and its link to a possible collectivization of pressing issues, such as #MeToo, LGBTIQ+ rights, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Ana Mas Projects. Berta Cáccamo, Patricia Dauder: Triple route
In a dialectical relationship it takes two people to dance a tango. Harmony cannot be achieved without the participation of at least two note-issuing beings. Berta Cáccamo participates, from a distant land, in a dialogue with Patricia Dauder, connecting a specific period of Cáccamo’s fruitful career with Dauder’s obsession with her gaze, an aspect that she shares with Cáccamo.
Merchant Passage : Sabel Gavaldón
ProjecteSD. Patricia Dauder: Interiors
The view of Patricia Dauder, whose exhibition at ProjecteSD we will visit, corresponds to this second modality. Her work is rooted in a poetics of the subterranean, inviting fungi, microorganisms and other environmental factors to intervene in its creation. Here the word creation It would not be the same as “getting something out of nothing,” but rather it points to a relationship of reciprocity—a conversation—in which the artist’s hand lends itself to listening to her materials as much as giving them shape. In a gesture of humility, Dauder opens his process to an ecology of relationships whose complexity resists passing through the bottleneck of interpretation.
Zielinsky. Sandra Monterroso: The wound, the bandage, the cure
This ecological perspective is also fundamental for the artist Sandra Monterroso, with an exhibition at the Zielinsky gallery. Born in Guatemala in the middle of the civil war, Monterroso conceives its practice as a healing art. It is about carefully repairing the ontological fabric of those indigenous worlds that were suppressed by colonial modernity. Since the late 1990s, her pioneering work in the field of performance bears witness to that history of violence that continues to haunt the present. In their textiles, pigments such as indigo or cochineal are resignified, whose circulation as colonial products played a key role in the development of a new global order.
Monterroso’s color blocks have their reverse in the group exhibition that can be seen in the Marc Domènech gallery. This collects a set of monochrome paintings that range from post-war abstraction to the present. Monochrome is usually understood as the modernist gesture par excellence: an exercise in erasure that would serve as a taste buds, cutting the Gordian knot that linked painting to representation to erect a new aesthetic order based on the autonomy of art. However, a careful look at the surface of these canvases is enough to complicate this hegemonic narrative, inviting us to explore other underground passages.
Council of Cent and surroundings: Pilar Cruz
Joan Prats Gallery. Lola Lasurt: Pictorial curation I: Esther Guillén. A project by Lola Lasurt
The first look is at Lola Lasurt’s brush with the usual description of the art curator. From the Joan Prats Gallery, the artist curates, but not on painting but painting, based on the work of the ceramist Esther Guillén. Lola paints connecting to Esther’s organic abstraction ceramics, influenced by avant-garde artistic practices from two politically unstable and intense moments in the Spanish State. The second blow to the common places is that of the artists in the group exhibition at the 3 Punts gallery, who contribute their vision on the extreme labeling that society exerts on each individual, and how we are forced to exercise these categories. A tyranny of labels promoted by economies of control and privilege, by cognitive biases, or by social laziness.
From Eixample to Gràcia: Mariella Franzoni
Artur Ramon Art. Yolanda Tabanera: Wild Room
Our first encounter will be with the mystical and introspective universe of Yolanda Tabanerawhich presents “Savage Room” at Artur Ramon Art, a project populated by forms that emerge from artisanal processes and techniques, thus giving symbolic life to materials such as ceramics, esparto grass and glass, even leather and goldsmithing.
Suburbia Contemporary. Mar Hernández: Universale
The «Universale» project by Mar Hernandez in Suburbia Contemporary: while weaving multiple chronological dimensions, his drawings pose spectral architectures that confuse memories and imagination.
Around Enric Granados: Sara Catalán
Marlborough Gallery. Anna Bella Geiger: Anna Bella Geiger and Pedro Geiger: affective cartography
Following a vision antithetical to the theories that try to define us, we understand ourselves as all equally incomplete, in a flow of transitions and learning.
Being complicit in the tracing of an affective cartography between Anna Bella Geiger and Pedro Pinchas Geiger, the Marlborough gallery will be a stop where the work will become a dialogue that draws emotional ties as a landscape of our history as people who relate and share the presence of the other. The non-performative presence that happens when living.
DNA Gallery. Bouchra KhaliliAbdelkader Benchamma. Fanning the spark of hope in the past. Structure
In DNA Bouchra Khalili exposes the traces of other movements in the absence of the people who live them. The systemic violence of different policies towards migratory movements, the scars that remain. Manifesting the transformations that build the before, during and after “corners” such as revolutions, migrations, ports or new technologies.
Calle Trafalgar: Veronica Valentini
Dilalica. Stella Rahola Matutes: The Library
Stella Rahola Matutes spreads out on the floor of the Dilalica gallery a carpet of more than 2,000 pieces of glass, coming from waste material from the artisan workshops that the artist collects. Between an inventory of objects and a library of manual knowledge, the exhibition is completed with a play of images and light in dialogue with the glass, which recalls both the inside of a human body and the inside of glass.
Between Sant Antoni and Ciutat Vella: Zaida Trallero
Chiquita Room. Teresa Estapé: Children and Fools
Fragility, time and mystery are concepts that are deployed in the three exhibition proposals, used to question hegemonic discourses or uncertain futures. Although fragility is represented by materials such as talc or paper, time is approached both from a physical magnitude and from its own experience. Teresa Estapé, artist who presents “Children and Fools” at Chiquita Room, chooses talc (the softest material on the Mohs scale of hardness) to design jewelry that, in its brutalist appearance, does not seem as fragile as it is. The portability of the pieces prevents comfortable movement due to their weight and fragile consistency. And that is precisely where Estapé’s interest lies, in placing jewelry that stops you, thus generating an awareness of your own body, which must be still. In that stoppage, in that unproductivity, lies the fragility of our time.
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