Monday, January 10, 2011

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Álvaro Perdices: Transfiguration space

DENIED, Open and naked is the title of the last exposure to Álvaro Perdices Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló. Partridge
invites us to reflect on the institution, what is the institution? What role can reach?. To do so creates and diversifies Perdices way to approach this reality unknown to many of us. Thus, forging an institutional vision through different prisms, from the sculptural intervention EACC the same, using the exhibition center's own role and referred and also emphasizes the work center manager, project management and use of public space by the viewer.

Álvaro Perdices the institution intends to accommodate a sofa from which position in a myriad of possibilities. This act itself we moved to the more complex world of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

The different points of view to which Partridge directs our watchful eyes we discover unsuspected facets and new developments between what we consider "inside" and "out" of our society and how these spaces can be reversed depending on our own positioning.

The artistic skill used by our artist is in the paradoxical articulation of relations, ie in the game that begins with what can be and is not, for instance in the game that occurs between the three corners of a triangle and its possible transformation.

Álvaro Perdices DENIED titled, Open and naked moves in the Espai d'Art Contemporani everything should be in place. The exposure draft itself activates different EACC spaces and functions by a joint art exhibition in all areas. And down endless interconnections that are used to link the various interrelationships and contradictions which are caused in the exhibition space.


One of the items on this exhibition is intended to clarify Álvaro all the administrative work that lies beneath the artist's creative talent eclipsing, so that makes everything visible what is not seen in the daily life of a space or public entity, incorporating the viewer as essential and indispensable part of the process. Hence, part of the exhibition hall is the setting to present on a white carpet the offices, the center's employees and their daily functions as a performance. Again will reverse the roles because the empty offices thus become an exhibition hall with the help of the artist.

Partridge once again proposed a scenario where the roles of space and its innate functions as those of visitors are extrapolated, in this particular case, through sculptural intervention in the building of the EACC , in which the artist creates a free and direct access from outside to inside it, cut off from the space and that is not accessible through the interior of the showroom. We could talk about a kind of sculpture as an optical illusion, as it proposes a new reading between the role of exhibition space and houses the works.

Álvaro Perdices parallel to the construction of a new network of re-articulation of roles and readings of the institution as well as the works and the roles of these and the reactions of viewers, has developed a set of video installations and photographs the result of three "actions" taken around the walls that enclose the exhibition area of \u200b\u200bthe room of EACC. To produce contributed equally to this work made up of disparate groups: 22 children in the School Census of Castellon, 27 dogs canine Recovery Center Services Castellón and 15 students of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Valencia. With performing different exercises, through physical activity, performance, and action imitation whipped-collect the responses and behaviors of the different bodies and their undeniable politicization with the institutional space. Reactions coming from the depths of being where the ability to know and acquire knowledge is precisely because of human inability.

Through of the various actions carried out within the space we can get the minimum degree of understanding that only when we fail to reach harvest with obvious knowledge. Therefore "not understand" what we visualize or expect to acquire the work is what brings us closer to achieving incongruously so desired aesthetic experience, which lies between being stunned or mesmerized by the same practice.

However, black and white walls of the EACC, in this particular case, become the perfect setting in the individual recipient, the key element of the work, as are those receive and welcome the product of a series of stimuli and effervescent action, the result of many reactions of various kinds. No doubt the emotional premium on sound, clearly reflecting popular unrest against concealment or widespread violence by discrimination in the cultural field.
The filming of the performances, accompanying the exhibition, makes video installations that penetrate and unravel the physical characteristics of space. Opposing and contrasting directly with the photographs that the artist has taken over the act of action, therefore, creates a palpable tension between action and reflection through which is generated and wanders the meaning of the exhibition.


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