Javier Longobardo
dal 16/4/2009 al 14/6/2009
Segnalato da
16/4/2009
Javier Longobardo
LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Gijon
Space Clips is an audiovisual Project that uses the video clip format to achieve the greatest sensorial impact, using its condition of integrated language. These videos are the fruit of the artist's collaboration with musicians who helped him provide imagery for the music of his preference. Part of the project includes object sculptures that show slides of virtual landscapes: 3D object viewers that, like tourist paraphernalia, give an impression of a mentally visited distant reality to the exhibition space.
Space Clips is an audiovisual project that uses the video clip format to achieve the
greatest sensorial impact, using its condition of integrated language. These videos
are the fruit of the artist’s collaboration with musicians who helped him provide
imagery for the music of his preference.
Part of the project includes object sculptures
that show slides of virtual landscapes: 3D object viewers that, like tourist
paraphernalia, give an impression of a mentally visited distant reality to the
exhibition space. Space Clips is based in tools provided by the road movie film genre
as a paradigm for speculative creation of fantastic and unlimited worlds.
The project
generates spatially coherent creations, but without physical limitations, using 3D
infographic technologies. This permits the reflection of epic atmospheres proper to
the world of science fiction, a legitimate refuge for the romantic landscape upon
which the artist is currently focused.
Javier Longobardo (Gijón, 1969) grew up taking painting for granted,
which is not surprising considering both his parents were drawing teachers. He
moved around continuously, living in Madrid, Gijón, Jerez and Granada, the city
where he finally settled down. After starting Fine Arts in Granada, he continued his
studies in Seville, Bilbao and Sheffield (England), finally graduating in the University
of the Basque Country. This peripatetic education has added a wealth of experience
to his work. Back in Granada, he started working as an artist, admittedly not very
prolific though highly eclectic. He has never tried to open up a place for himself in
the art market and his incursions into art galleries have been sporadic. He makes a
living as a drawing teacher in schools, academies and workshops and, at the current
moment, he is working in a little town in Badajoz called Cabeza del Buey. Internet
gives him the necessary diffusion to make up for the geographical limitation. Among
his one-person exhibitions are Buck Sad. (2008) Sala El Brocense, Cáceres; Zaidín
Monumental (2001), Palacio de Los Condes de Gabia. Área de Cultura de la
Diputación de Granada; Grandes Ilustraciones y Nuevas Aventuras de Mazinger Z
(1996), La Corrala de Santiago, City Council of Granada exhibition hall; Practique sin
Salir de Casa (1996), Sala Hydra, Granada, among others.
http://www.javierlongobardo.com/
Press contact
Pepa Telenti Alvargonzález Tel: +34 985 185582 E-mail: comunicacion@laboralcentrodearte.org
LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre
Los Prados, 121 - Gijon
Wednesday to Monday, 12 noon to 8 pm.