PARTICIPATING CREATORS

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Eugenio Marchesi

Imanol Marrodan

Jose Luis Santalla

Angel Masip

Jose Luis Serzo

Oscar Seco

Chema Lopez

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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.

 

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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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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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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Oscar Seco

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For more than a decade now  my work is part of a neo-pop and political-fiction aesthetic. This work materializes in the use of elements and resources from literature, cinema, poster design, advertising...

With these elements I have put together various thematic series on, for example, the chaotic relationship between man and nature or the series "Apocalypse and Alternative Worlds", a review of covert politics in cultural manifestations (B-series movies, posters, comic, advertising, etc.) during the Cold War in the fifties.

Starting from these premises, the project that I am currently developing focuses on the Spanish Civil War and its iconography, under a personal, iconoclastic, ironic and playful vision, at the same time documented and adhered to specific historical moments of our recent history.

A war where the Renau, Bardasano or Saez de Tejada cartels mix in an Alternative Spain, where fascists and republicans coexist with manga icons, Japanese monsters, superheroes and war iconography  taken from old photos of the contest.

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