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22/9/2011

Four exhibitions

CAB Caja de Burgos, Burgos

Diego del Pozo-P4
Casting 1971

The exhibition “Casting 1971” arrives at the Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, CAB, after being selected to take part in the first edition of the project P4, Platform for Art Support in Castile and Leon, an initiative aiming at stimulating art creation within the parameters of current art in all its disciplines: painting, sculpture, etching, drawing, photography, video, graphic, installation, videoart, electronic art as well as any other current tendency. Another three art centers in the region participate together with the CAB in P4, Artium 2002 (DA2) in Salamanca, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) in León and the Patio herreriano-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español in Valladolid who will be holding other artistic proposals appointed by the Selecting Committee of the platform.

Multidisciplinary artist (drawing, video, objects installation…) and cultural producer, Diego del Pozo Barriuso (Valladolid, 1974) is the author of a work trying to establish connections between the satisfaction of individual major desires and the identity building processes, conditioned by the different mechanisms of social control. In short, the artist deepens in humans’ need for affection and our fight to resolve our yearnings within the context of a working and mass producing system, or as Del Pozo explains, in “too big distance between what people are and what they would like to be”.

For the installation presented at the CAB, Del Pozo has focused on his own generation, on those born between 1970 and 1979, marked by a strong emotional fragility and condemned to job insecurity in spite of their academic formation. In order to clearly study the dreams and frustrations of his contemporaries the artist has chosen a casting as the visual structure. This decision allows him to wisely investigate the behaviours, emotions, doubts and anxieties of the people he questions to present a mosaic aiming at defining the interrelation between the individuals’ subjectivity and the reality that surrounds and traps them.

The videos shown and the exhibition actually simulate a casting for advertising or cinema, in which the actors are invited to spontaneously interpret somebody of their age, somebody like them: his or her idea of success, failure, ethical models, emotional life, professional and economic problems. This way, a “polisemic device” is generated, capable of revealing the collective reality and foreseeing new imaginaries of this generation’s future. This device hints at the artist’s conviction that the mechanisms for social control are interiorised by the individuals.

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La colección (Artistas Burgaleses) [I+E]2

In 2011 the Caja de Burgos Contemporary Art Centre, CAB, has presented, in two different showings, artwork that has been incorporated to the bank's art collection over the last three years (2008, 2009, 2010) in the project La Colección de Caja de Burgos. [I+E]2. With the aim of presenting a general view of the works that Caja de Burgos is adding to its collection, relevant art works that have been selected from the individual exhibitions organised by the CAB over the above mentioned years.

The fact that Caja de Burgos has acquired these pieces works in line with the support given to the artists in every show.

Therefore, they are not isolated acquisitions or out of context, but pieces that, in most cases, have been conceived and produced particularly for the exhibitions in the CAB and which are enriched by the added value of being documents which show the artistic promotion the CAB has led over the years.

Every effort has always been made by the Caja de Burgos Art Collection to avoid hermetic decisions and favouritism towards one or another tendency, and this effort is demonstrated in the selection of works that are presented in this exhibition by the installations, videos, photographs, paintings, sculptures as well as other proposals of a different nature.

Taking research as a starting point, as well as the contact with new artists and creative proposals, guided on some occasions by intuition or emotions, the directors of the Caja de Burgos Art Collection (made up of more than 600 works), have outlined the paths through which current plastic and visual creation evolve; an artistic and changing reflection of our society.

This third and last exhibition presents the works of Burgos naturally born artists or those who develop or have developed their artistic work on a local scale. Although this third show means the end of the public presentation of the acquisitions Caja de Burgos has made over the last three years, the Collection is a living being that keeps on growing. For this reason, Caja de Burgos is willing to show at the CAB, in the near future, the works of many other local, national and international artists.

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Hans Op de Beeck
Sea of Tranquillity

Visiting the exhibition “Sea of Tranquillity” is like being in a dream. This installation conceived by visual artist Hans Op de Becak (Turnhout, Belgium, 1969) evokes, at first the melancholic and misty atmosphere of a museum which has not yet been opened or which is being dismantled: silence and a mysterious mood overcome the viewer, who approaches a room recalling the half-light of old-fashioned museums and inviting the visitors an amazing tour of around watercolours, models, sculptures and showcases filled with smaller pieces.

The articulating work of the installation is a short, from which the exhibition takes its title, combining shot images of actors and others three dimensional digitally generated. The short takes the viewer into a night tour on board of an intriguing cruise, Op de Beeck, who witnessed, at the French harbour of saint Nazaire, the construction of the Queen Mary 2, the biggest ocean liner at the time, uses this vast ship as a sharp metaphor of western principles such as leisure and luxurious consumption.

Reflection, a recurrent theme in this Belgian artist, on our complicated and troublesome relation with time, space and other humans is materialised through different aesthetic solutions, going stretching from an economic and minimalist visual language to overcharged, exaggerated designs, always responding to the objective of articulating the contents with as accurately as possible. Op de Beeck presents inexistent but identifiable places, moments and characters that seem to have been taken from everyday life so as to capture the tragicomic and absurd qualities of our postmodern existence through topics such as the absence of distances, the disincorporation of the being and the abstraction of time, consequences of a globalised world as well as the changes in our environment brought by the media, automation and technology.

The artist also reflects on the complex relation between reality and representation, between what we see and what we want to believe, between what we are and the ruses we implement to more easily accept one’s own insignificance and lack of identity. The visual outcome of this study often results, as in the case of “Sea of Tranquility”, in dreamlike, surprising and deceitful images.

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Gonzalo Puch
Una jornada sin nubes

He is one of the Spanish artists who has contributed the most to the full integration of photography in current art, Gonzalo Puch’s work (Seville, 1951) articulates his work on a singular presentation of mental processes that deepen in the artist’s relationship with his individual and social reality and, solely, with his natural environment.

“Nature is possible for us thanks to the range of relationships that can be established with it, this way nature and culture can not exist separately”. These words successfully convey the sense and meaning of “Una jornada sin nubes”, Puch’s proposal for the Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, CAB for this last term of 2011. Drawings, photographs, installation, video… The artist’s objective is to present a work in which nature is the background where everything takes place, as in previous projects, Puch portrays an endangered environment , represented through mysterious images full of poetry, fantasy and horror, where the line between real and the artistic world is somehow blurred, hardly maintained by a faint narrative thread.

This artist, a natural from Seville, who devoted the beginning of his career to sculpture and abstract painting has consecrated the last two years to combining drawing and photography through a process in which he first take pictures of his drawings and later mix them digitally with photographs. These “photographed drawings”, varied elements that are juxtaposed in certain situations that he captures with his camera and finally combines and adapts are part of the exhibition and are the central part of the current exhibition “Un día sin nubes”, formed by the cuttings of these drawings freed from the rectangular sheet in which they were created.

The video, corresponding to the artist’s photography period, was also created as a collage of sequences that is related to the drawings in a sort of endless sequence, at the end of which some pictures show the process of such a personal creative march. In “Una jornada sin nubes” there are also some objects strengthening the idea of art and life.

Gonzalo Puch, whose work is part of art collections such as Fundación Coca-Cola, Museo de Arte Blaton, Texas University, Fundación Telefónica, Fundación Arco and the Centro Andaluz para el Arte Contemporáneo is an old friend of the CAB since he has already taken part in a collective exhibition called Permanencias Difusas helfd from October 2005 to September 2006.

Image: Luis Mena, Fotografia 69.30x46.50 cm

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