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15/4/2014

Four exhibitions

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea CGAC, Santiago de Compostela

16 April - 15 June 2014

Paco Rocha
Naturalmente Humano

Curator: Christina Ferreira

Fortunately, everything that gives me pleasure and provides me with this feeling of peace and calm is related to my animal instincts and that is why my search begins with nature. I try to understand my existence, searching for little pieces of the landscape that might represent my mood, my feelings, my own self.

I set out to perceive and photograph perception.

I’m doing this exercise at a time in my life when I am full of rage, helplessness, pent-up fury and an unbelievable tameness which is not typical of me at all. The search begins among the masses of colour, its limits and the supposed visual chaos that rules in the ‘natural order’ of things.

Experience forms a part of the work intrinsically.

The hours spent driving for miles searching for bits of landscapes that provide a true reflection of the experience itself, walking through the marshland your feet sinking into the mud, in order to capture the shape of a tree overlapping another of a different colour...

The photographic technique is the most basic and natural, chemical photography, where the light reflected on the landscape corrodes the elements that make up the film emulsion, thus capturing part of the very essence of the moment. Large formats using plates or film and the use of a camera with an optical bench make it possible to approach each image as if it were a complex composition, full of decisions. A slight tilting of the optics is sufficient, making it possible to experience a wood with great clarity from the first step to the last, another movement creates a mass of diffuse colour at one end and in this way the composition is formed by focussing and taking out of focus as desired.

My life is a constant struggle with myself, among the melancholy, the madness and the obligation to belong to this society; double exposures reflect this final aim of making the two sides of myself one, brighter, more alive.

Paco Rocha

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16 April - 15 June 2014

Misha Bies Golas
27 negros, 2013-2014

A black 20 x 20 cm square is the starting point. Misha Bies Golas sets up a work consisting of a series of monochrome paintings commissioned to artists from different generations. Conceived as a character piece and titled 27 negros, it turns and opens its meaning beyond that which is merely descriptive and formal—27 black paintings and, at the same time 27 artists working for him following strict guidelines: one size, one colour. Black like ancient slaves, and black like literary figures relegated to anonymity. In this case, the artists define the work's fact sheet. They create and manufacture their objects for a larger work of which they know nothing of the other pieces in the assembly line nor about the final product. Bies Golas constitutes, absorbs, usurps and shares.

The iconic nature of the motif, chosen in reference to Malevich and the different reviews of single colours throughout the twentieth century, produces a major work consisting of small pieces that take over from each other following an itinerary that occupies the entire exhibit hall and is placed at the spectators' eye level so they can observe it as they walk. The first works condition the position of the following ones, they speak to each other and take over from each other like film frames or drawings, with slight variations that create movement.

Looking from a distance reveals a frieze of ellipses. It is an open work where the number of participating artists can increase or decrease and the positioning and sequencing of the pieces can change depending on the exhibit and the space. A close look reveals the trace and gesture of each artist, often linked to their own career and, in some cases, with an unpublished twist or solution.

Teo Soriano, Nacho Martín Silva, Carlos Maciá, Mikeldi Pérez Urkijo, Nuria Fuster, Alain Urrutia, Antonio González, Din Matamoro, Miren Doiz, Manuel Eirís, Julia Spínola, Guillermo Pfaff, José Manuel Vidal, Ion Macareno, Amaya González Reyes, Kiko Pérez, Xoan Torres, Juan López, Ian Waelder, Diego Vites, Jorge Varela, Dai KS, Kepa Garraza, Vítor Mejuto, Ángela Cuadra, Suso Fandiño and Mar Vicente. 27 ways of addressing the same theme, 27 versions that become a lesson in painting and a group exercise in style.

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16 April - 18 June 2014

Col.

Curator Miguel von Hafe Pérez

Artist: Usue Arrieta & Vicente Vázquez - François Bucher - Waltercio Caldas - André Cepeda - Patricia Esquivias - Suso Fandiño - Fermín Jiménez Landa - Loreto Martínez Troncoso - Chelo Matesanz - Fabio Morais - Pamen Pereira - Gabriel Pericàs - José Luis Seara - André Sousa

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16 April - 15 June 2014

One hundred years with Alejandro de la Sota

Curator Moisés Puente

One hundred years after his birth, the CGAC holds an exhibition devoted to Spanish architect Alejandro de la Sota (Pontevedra, Spain, 1913 - Madrid, Spain, 1996). The show, which is organised by ICO Foundation in collaboration with the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation, reflects on the man, his work, his teaching and perhaps most relevant of all, how relevant his legacy is today.

Alejandro de la Sota probably arouses more impassioned responses than any other Spanish architect. To his legendary status as an architect with a firm ethical stance in the profession must be added one of the most intense and consistent careers in the recent history of Spanish architecture. Although our circumstances are very different from his, his legacy is still there, ready to be used. Any reading of his work we attempt today will necessary entail updating him, and perhaps demystifying him, as we embrace and make our own his singular way of making the architecture that, as he argued, should be written with a lower-case a.

Image: Paco Rocha

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Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
Ramón del Valle Inclán 2
15703 Santiago de Compostela
Opening times: 11 to 20 h
Closed on Monday
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