PARTICIPATING CREATORS

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Jose Luis Santalla

Angel Masip

Aitor Lajarin

Eugenio Marchesi

Santiago Talavera

Ruth Quirce

Jose Luis Serzo

neil hamon

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Jose Luis Santalla

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José Luis Santalla, (Madrid, 1965) belongs to the generation that, beginning its 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 duplication, since 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 issues, 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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Aitor Lajarin

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Painting and installation in  my case  do not act  as two separate agents, as two clearly differentiated fields that complement each other but rather the installations come to be the prolongation and drift of the painting through the architecture of the exhibition hall, in a kind of expansive action of the painting that enters into interaction and questioning relationship with the architectural framework.

In this situation in which the exhibition space is activated and becomes so important and where each scene is inserted in a larger narrative, the assembly of the rest of the pieces is equally careful, trying to generate correlations between them and to form in the room a discursive thread that is more or less concrete and evident but that exists, albeit in a latent way. The cohesion  of the pieces and the space is reinforced by the direct pictorial intervention on the walls of the room, which gives the exhibition the appearance and sense of a single installation.

It is important the fact of being able through the means that are managed to make pieces that in an open and suggestive way, never imposing, provoke reflections in the spectator who will be the one who ultimately makes the work, internalizing it and confusing it with his own experience.

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Eugenio Marchesi

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My work is based on the observation and poetry of the relationship between homosapiens and nature, treating homosapiens so that they are not different from any other species. I use the medium presented through the science of art as the fundamental expression in my projects.
The human species transforms, consumes, degrades and improves the environment for its own immediate advantage. The implications are profound, beyond what can ever be redeemed through the elastoplast offered by science and technology. The consequence of these actions will have far-reaching evolutionary consequences. The materials I use, more or less, come from nature, science and technology. My main job is to search for genetically modified crops and the genetic improvements prevalent in livestock farming. Both have been introduced into our ecosystem, the very storehouse that feeds our human life support system. Science seductively proposes to improve a large part of our lives and, in fact, it has turned against us, becoming a fundamental evolutionary weapon of the human species.

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Santiago Talavera

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The sea, as necessary as it is fearsome, has always been used by man's imagination to speak of his own fears and emotional states. Thus, a devastating storm or tidal wave was interpreted in terms of "the illusion of a just world" as a deserved punishment. Due to its strong symbolic charge carried over the centuries, the ocean has remained perpetually linked to artistic production.

In "Becoming an Ocean" Santiago Talavera (Cuenca, 1979) presents audiovisual poetry in the form of drawings, paintings and music,  which enter and exit through the windows of a miniature house. Looking through them, the espectador  becomes a spy and spectator of the minuscule. It will search  as in a dream, discovering and selecting details that offer a wide range of readings. Some doors open and others that reveal the remains of an unexpected arrival of nature. A great domestic tsunami, or rather taming.

The pieces are consciously made from the most personal universe of the artist, from the inside of the house to the outside and vice versa; unified in an exhibition project.

A project that speaks, in short, of a sudden and brutal event, destructive and regenerative like life itself, which stimulates our perception of the landscape, both natural and personal. 

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Ruth Quirce

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This time his work revolves around the idea of chaos, "Little Apocalypse" that recalls 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, starting from her own sensation as a silent element and from her immobile position, is a spectator of everything that happens around her. Everything around her is moving, spinning; the closest and the farthest, beyond the limits of the universe. In the artist's own words: "I am speaking from my own space, calm, controlled and protected. A small "redemptive" space that, like the sun, looks at everything from a certain distance."

"Little Apocalypse" presents paintings where geometry contributes to stability and disorder at the same time, with planes, lines and energetic elements with a robust metallic appearance like this mountain / pyramid / ziggurat that acts as a source of energy, "light as atmosphere, as a statement means where things, reality appears ".

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[1] Reference to the exhibition “Night Journeys of the Sun” carried out in Blanca Soto Arte in 2004

[1] Man and the divine. Maria Zambrano.

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Jose Luis Serzo

I am working on the inevitable persecution of a character called THEWELCOME, (the/the/the welcome), a somewhat elusive, polymorphic, eclectic, timeless, expected, necessary, surprising, good, transmuting, repairing, expansive, healing, nutritious, being. empathetic, magical... and a long etc.

I want to get closer to that character who carries that "good vibes", a being who produces the same sensation of relief as a window to the outside that brings fresh air and light to a dark and closed place.

A binding being of positive and constructive particles, an unmistakable being of goodness and union, of growth, of expansion.

I think that this character should aspire to configure the sum of all our dreams, and since I know that this is "practically" impossible, I would like to work on the satellites that circle that planet-sun.

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