Espai 13
dal 30/10/2002 al 20/7/2003
Segnalato da
30/10/2002
Espai 13
Fundacio Joan Miro', Barcelona
The 'Psychodrome' cycle. The Espai 13 is the section of the Foundation devoted to the work of artists exploring new avenues in contemporary art. Those exhibiting this season are young artists from around the world who have consolidated their position in their own countries and are at interesting periods in their careers but whose work has not been seen much in Spain despite being frequently shown abroad.
Psychodrome
Curated by Grazia Quaroni and David Renaud
Joan Miró Foundation starts off the new season of exhibitions in the Espai 13
with the "Psychodrome" cycle, selected by Grazia Quaroni, curator during the
2001-2002 season, in collaboration with David Renaud. They both live and work
in Paris. The Espai 13 is the section of the Foundation devoted to the work of
artists exploring new avenues in contemporary art. Those exhibiting this
season are young artists from around the world who have consolidated their
position in their own countries and are at interesting periods in their
careers but whose work has not been seen much in Spain despite being
frequently shown abroad.
Psychodrome, the title of the cycle, refers to a circuit in a defined space -
the exhibition space in which a basic module will be installed in the form of
a circular structure that will change according to the needs of the different
artists. It also refers to "psychedelia", a familiar word since the 1970s that
means a disorder of consciousness through some external stimulus, in this case
visual art.
The artists taking part in the cycle have in common an interest in disorder,
be it of the imagination or of consciousness, through images and often through
the use of colour, sound or the direct intervention of the architectural
space. They explore the disturbances and interferences between reality and
illusion, fantasy and everyday life, sleep and wakefulness, the absence of
linearity and of beginning and end through a burst of colours and forms and
the creation of motifs repeated ad infinitum in an obsessive fashion.
Their ideas embrace painting, sculpture, video, wallpaper and mural paintings
as well as more conceptual work, all linked by an uninhibited creativity
bordering on the spheres of consciousness and unconsciousness.
What is new this year is that, instead of a succession of individual shows,
the programme has been designed as a single exhibition in four phases, with
three artists participating at a time in relays and most artists appearing in
two phases.
The artists will thus complete a kind of concentric circle - like a shooting
target or maze, two strongly hypnotic items related to disturbance. Present in
Psychodrome 01 will be David Renaud, Mariko Mori and Michel Gouéry; the latter
will continue in Psychodrome 02 accompanied by Franz Ackermann and Fred
Tomaselli. In Psychodrome 03 we will meet Tomaselli again, with Beatriz Barral
and Tor-Magnus Lundeby; and Lundeby will reappear in Psychodrome 04 with Ugo
Rondinone and, completing the circle, David Renaud.
Psychodrome 01
David Renaud - Mariko Mori - Michel Gouéry
31 October - 8 December 2002
Psychodrome 02
Michel Gouéry - Franz Ackerman - Fred Tomaselli
19 December 2002 - 9 February 2003
Psychodrome 03
Fred Tomaselli - Beatriz Barral - Tor-Magnus Lundeby
27 February - 27 April 2003
Psychodrome 04
Tor-Magnus Lundeby - Ugo Rondinone - David Renaud
15 May - 20 July 2003
Joan Miro Foundation
Parc de Montjuïc 08038 Barcelona
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