Orvar
dal 6/5/2011 al 12/5/2011
Segnalato da
6/5/2011
Orvar
91mQ art project space, Berlin
O. is a site-specific project, of drawings and performance, operating a semantic analysis of the mythopoetic mechanisms of the body. A process of writing, of and with the body, that proceeds through a descriptive and ritualistic approach.
curated by Fabio Campagna
O. by Orvar (1984, Mexico) is a site-specific project, of drawings and performance, operating a semantic analysis of the mythopoetic mechanisms of the body. A process of writing, of and with the body, that proceeds through a descriptive and ritualistic approach.
His scenic and symbolic space of action is the desert. A physical and existential Limen. Ecstatic annihilation, that presents itself as a suspended void, lacerated and hard, within the immaterial space of the paper. From the traces of sedimentation left behind emerges a series of portraits. A silent multitude. Resplendent and physical. The very objectivity, photographic, conveyed with ease and technical expertise, is enhanced by the unfolding of a universe rich with symbols.
A personal mythology is sketched, becoming abruptly common text.
A vigorous emersion that, in its thick references to iconography belonging to precolombian and Catholicism symbolism, activates a paradoxical and profound transcription of the imaginary. An alive distortion, made of contradictory signs. Dissonant geometries of symbols and faces. And their conflict, like a source of content, writes personal metanarratives. Without solutions of continuity.
The imaginary as proliferation of different, other texts. Dense, real. A complex mythography, whose profound, cohesive mark, is the body. A hermeneutic code that gives form to the figurative universe of Orvar. Operating a symbolic transfiguration of reality into a mythological theatre of trauma.
It is precisely this pain, as discontinuity, limit, and self-realisation of the body, who is the protagonist within the system of signs through the installative construction of O. The trauma, together personal and collective, that alone informs every narration. Actualising a panic rituality. Unveiling itself. An operation which is completed through the performative interventions by Orvar. Actions which dynamically ignite the installative machine, following behind it, the process of writing.
The body, through its purest exemplification, the articulation of the voice, illustrating the fractures and the idiosyncrasies of the profound. Positioning itself, in that way, as narrative spaces of a cruel, but necessary, introspective trance.
An irreplaceable ontological pain.
Drawing an alternative and solid position for the human within reality.
Orvar (1984. Mexico) is a crossing media artist. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He studied architecure at Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Mexico. www.wix.com/oorvar/orvar
Solo Shows: 2008. XACTACEA, Galeria Iberoamericana. Festival Romerias de Mayo. Holguin, Cuba.
Group shows: 2010. Dach 11. The Palace of Art. Minsk, Belarus; Cut&paste#2. 3D Gallery. Venezia, Italy; 1984. Sine Die Project Room. Berlin, Germany; Totonaca. Museum of contemporary TrashArt. Berlin, Germany; 2009. Dibujos. Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo de Xalapa. Veracruz, Mexico; 2007. Como Pedro por mi casa. Auditorio de la Central del Raval. Barcelona, Spain; 2006. Artistas Coahuilences nacidos del 60 al 84.
Galeria Casa Hayasamin.
Grants: 2009-2010. Annual Grant. Young Artists. Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Coahuila, Mexico. FECAC.
2009. Winner First Contemporary Painting Contest. Galeria Blanco. Mexico. 2005-2006 Annual Grant. Young Artists.
Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Coahuila, Mexico. FECAC.
7 May 2011 | opening h 19.30 _ performance h 21.30
91mQ Art project space
Landsberger Allee 54 - Berlin
by appointment: