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28/11/2007

Fernando Renes

Galeria Distrito Cu4tro (Old space), Madrid

Fernando Renes returns to Distrito Cu4tro with the very first exhibition of his most recent work. For Animations from Havemeyer Street Renes has produced two works of animation in which his drawings come to life. “I think that I do animation because the soul is a form of projection and I must represent that”, he says. Basically they are watercolours and ink on paper, filled with a poetry of humour and imagination. “What an earth-shatteringly imaginative thrust it must take to make a Formula one car, a Ferrari for example,” reflects Renes. The intelligent irony of his drawings underpinned by excellent technical skill brings about a relationship of complicity with the spectator, something which we are now used to experiencing. The project which Fernando Renes is presenting is based on the development of two series of drawings which result in Omnivorous Romance and Fujinokisha, the first one lasting 13 minutes, both completed in 2007.

While the first one, Omnivorous Romance, is a mini-film with a line of argument running through it, Fujinokisha is looking to record precise incidents upon a uniform base and in continuous movement, the movement of a train going round Mt Fuji (in his previous animation, The Tableland, Renes flew over Fuji on his way from Covarrubias to New York ). The title Fujinokisha is literally in Japanese “The steam of Fuji” in this case “Kisha” is referring to a steam train.

Omnivorous Romance is a work made up of three projections, which is showing on the upper floor of the gallery and which in form relates to landscape painting. To make it, Renes did 7000 drawings, (one year’s work) and some of these are exhibited on the walls of the annexe. Fuji however consists of only 15 drawings which are also shown. All the drawings used in the animation, whose mode of execution ranges from the “premiere pensee”, as Delacroix would say, to the carefully constructed drawing, are water colour or ink on paper, 27.9 x 35.5cm.

Basically you could define the object of this exhibition as an attempt to show a truth, unedited, not previously told, he says.

Fernando Renes was born in Covarrubias, Burgos, in 1970, lives and works in New York and regularly exhibits in Spain. Since his show El maíz picotea al pájaro (Corn pecks the bird) in Espacio Distrito Cu4tro in 2004, he has had one man shows on both sides of the Atlantic: Mis animals y yo in Casa Encendida (2006), Fernando Renes at TRANS>area, New York (2005), De Covarrubias a Nueva York in CAB at Burgos (2004). He has participated in many group exhibitions in museums, institutes and galleries: Queens Museum of Art, New York, The Rose Art Museum Boston, The Esteban Vicente Museum, Segovia (La palabra imaginada, 2007) The Galician Centre of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela (Contos dixitais, 2006), MUSAC, León (Globos sonda 2006) Panera Art Centre Lleida (La Colecció d’art contemporary de l’Ajuntament de Lleida, 2007). The Jeannie Freilich Fine Art Centre NY (100 artists, 100 watercolours 2006). At the moment you can see Renes’ work in the exhibition Existencias, MUSAC, León and in Geopolíticas de la Animación at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville.

At this time Fernando Renes is preparing his next exhibition for the Jeannie Freilich Fine Art Gallery, New York, to take place in March 2008. He is also completing work for the next publication of a book of drawings from Omnivorous Romance edited by Octavio Zaya. He is also included in 100 Artistas españoles, contemporary Spanish artists selected by EXIT for a new volume to be presented at ARCO ’08.

Image: Romance omnívoro - Omnivorous Romance, 2007
3 screen projection, sound 13 min. 3 sec. Ed. 7 (still)

Galería Distrito Cu4tro
Bárbara de Braganza 2 E-28004 Madrid - Spain
Opening hours: Monday from 4.30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday to Friday from 11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. and from 4.30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday from 11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. and from 5.00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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