PARTICIPATING CREATORS

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Aitor Lajarin

Arthur Prins

Imanol Marrodan

Jose Luis Santalla

Jose Luis Serzo

nicola costantino

Oscar Seco

Pep Guerrero

PSJM

Ruth Quirce

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Aitor Lajarin

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Aitor Lajarín paints human beings inside their houses who are in a strange situation. It is about architectures that do not appear as icons but as housing proposals, which is why the painter develops, from the house, only these primary structures of walls and floor, frivolously fed by the spatial occupation of some other piece of isolated design furniture. The characters that, we intuit, inhabit these ambiences domesticos, seem to be there circumstantially, as if their occupation, the fact of leaving their traces, were impossible, much less, they were allowed to collapse them with memories. They appear before us as if they inhabited someone else's space, a space that belongs to no one... or an uninhabited space.

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Imanol Marrodan

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Interdisciplinary creator and critical thinker who has focused his work within the framework of research and contemporary artistic creation. He has exhibited his projects in numerous countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Korea, Argentina, Switzerland and the United States. His work has participated in numerous international contemporary art fairs as well as being present in important collections of museums and public and private institutions.

It is also worth noting his critical and managerial work in the production of different events related to art and contemporary thought.

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Jose Luis Santalla

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He belongs to the generation that, beginning his career in the eighties, has used photography as a versatile and flexible tool, in an imaginative exploration of its narrative possibilities. His series have followed one another as a search for limit possibilities

(Manipulations) or in which the duplication, from the introduction of the idea of the mirror, generates possible spaces for the imagination (Diptychs). Many of his images have tended to build allegories in which objects take on a different meaning and use, opting more for developing a discourse of stylistic fragmentation that would allow him narrative versatility from which to address specific themes, tensions, and contradictions (In Silence ). Oscillating between the inert and the animated, and precisely from his latest series, A happy world  y Fugas , his work acquires a denser thickness, linked to a meditation on values and models in contemporary society.

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Jose Luis Serzo

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He ventures in search of a mysterious being called THEWELCOME, and presents his first exhibition (again with an exhibition-story) at the Blanca Soto gallery in Madrid. To do this, he uses different disciplines, and with the collaboration of real and fictional friends, this young "researcher" tries to shape a universal portrait configured by means of infinite testimonies, stories and descriptions that contain our best wishes.

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nicola costantino

 

Nicola Costantino (1964) was born in Rosario, Argentina,  where she studied Fine Arts with a specialization in sculpture.

Cochon sur canapé (1992), his first solo show, is considered a precursor of contemporary Latin American art. In 1994 he entered the Fundación Antorchas Barracas workshop coordinated by Suárez and Benedit and moved to Buenos Aires, where he lives and works. In 1998 he represented Argentina at the Sao Paulo Biennial, and since then he has participated in numerous exhibitions in museums around the world, including Liverpool (1999), Tel Aviv (2002) and Zurich (2011). In 2000 he held a solo show at Deitch Projects (New York) and his Corset made of human fur entered the MOMA collection. In 2004 he presented Animal Motion Planet, a series of orthopedic machines for unborn animals, and Savon de Corps, a work that had a great impact in the press. The meeting with Gabriel Valansi in 2006 meant his entry into the world of photography, with more than 30 works in which his leading role is constant, embodying different personalities of art and photography. Her interest in video performance led her to create the self-referential work Trailer (2010), her first cinematographic production, and to approach a paradigmatic female historical figure such as Eva Perón in Unfinished Rhapsody (55th Venice Biennale, 2013).

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Oscar Seco

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On this occasion, the artist exhibits, in addition to paintings, a series of models and a video made in collaboration with Manuel Mingo set in the middle of Seville's Holy Week.

Seco, as usual, tackles a work with an imaginary theme that refers to fantastic literature, science fiction and comics. His work, full of references to art history and the world of “B” movies, is full of irony and sarcasm. A corrosive humor that allows him to play in an apparently childish way, with many of the conflicts of the human being; war, technology, the current state of the art are recurring themes, hence this fertile symbology that ranges from the most varied fantastic fauna to the war repertoire full of tanks, guns and soldiers.

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Pep Guerrero

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Pep Guerrero's painting shows features of the dominant eclecticism in all current artistic activity, taking up findings from previous artistic movements to integrate them as habitual tools in his creation: the collage applied to everyday elements and the decontextualized use of elements of popular culture link the work of Pep Guerrero with artistic tendencies such as Dadaism, Pop or the Bauhaus.

Composing his pieces with disparate but always harmonious iconographies (prints, toile de jouie landscapes or fake animal skins), the artist now incorporates reproductions of Renaissance paintings, achieving a pleasantly impressive result.

The usual Camper shoes or the most classic pieces of furniture have been replaced, this time, by simple nostalgic games evocative of an irretrievable time, of the childhood and adolescence of an entire generation.

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PSJM

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PSJM is an artistic team made up of Pablo San José (Mieres, 1969) and Cynthia Viera (Las Palmas, 1973), who are working in Madrid. PSJM works as a commercial brand of outstanding art, its actions and works speak about works of art and its place in the market, communication with the art consumer and the function as an art theme, using resources and elements of communication capitalism and the society of the spectacle to find the paradoxes that are produced by its chaotic development.
PSJM has had shows in places like New York ("The Real Royal Trip. By the Arts", PS1-MOMA. In collaboration with El Perro and Aitor Méndez.), Miami ("Deluxe", Casas Reigner gallery), Colonia (KunstKöln04 ), Blanca Soto Gallery) or Berlin ("Shopped till Death", Tuteurhaus) and many individual and group shows in Spain.

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Ruth Quirce

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Little Apocalypse is the title under which Ruth Quirce (Madrid 1974).

On this occasion, his work revolves around the idea of chaos, a "small apocalypse" that evokes those moments of fragility, those small limits, explosions, that unbalance a calm situation;  in short , small outbreaks of chaos that disturb the apparent tranquility of all things.

Ruth starts from her own sensation of a still element, and from her immobile position, she herself is a spectator of everything that happens around her. Everything that surrounds it moves, turns; both the most immediate and the most remote, beyond the limits of the Universe.  In the artist's own words: “I speak from my own space, still, regulated and sheltered. A small “savior” space that, like the soll before, looks at everything from a certain distance”

Little Apocalypse presents paintings where geometry provides stability and disorder at the same time, with planes, lines  and energetic elements, with a robust metallic appearance like that mountain / pyramid / ziggurat that acts as a source of energy , “light as an atmosphere, as a declarative medium where things, reality appear.”2

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