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6/7/2006

Three exhibitions

MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo

Inside-Out. Contemporary Artists from Israel
Ground Floor
07 de July - 08 de October de 2006

To complete the Museum’s exhibition programme for the following months, Marco of Vigo presents the group exhibition Inside-Out. Contemporary Artists from Israel, curated by Octavio Zaya, included on the group of exhibitions produced by Marco -four out of five- organized until now by the museum over 2006. The show coincides in time with the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Spain and Israel.

Artist: Keren Assaf, Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, Ori Gersht, Varda Getzow, Talia Keinan, Miki Kratsman, Sigalit Landau, Adi Nes, Eliezer Sonnenschein, Gal Weinstein, Nadav Weissma, Sharon Ya'ari y Rona Yefman

The curator has chosen a selection of 14 artists who has not been at all chosen as the representatives of Israeli art, but as a sample of the complexity and diversity of contemporary art in that country, with subjective visions, with their contradictions, multiple senses and interpretations. It tries to get closer to the character and sense of the artistic practices and production of a group of contemporary artists from Israel. Far from any institutional speech or any attempt in order to politic instrumentalization, there is on the other hand a clear intention of contributing to a better diffusion of the work of some artists -most of them emerging artists who begin to stand out in the international scene- who for different reasons are almost unknown in Spain.

The fact is that it is really difficult to mention the name of Israel without being irremediably linked to questions that, very little or nothing, have to do with the intention of the exhibition project. “In fact -quoting the curator’s words for the catalogue- every single thing that has to do with Israel has been already marked or signified in a way in our modern conscience (...) As we all know, the realities in which is inspired and debate, where it finds and loses, those that Israeli contemporary art makes go beyond or ignores—or by Israeli artists around the conditions and vicissitudes of artistic practise in a country on a constant state of emergency — are tragic and extraordinary."

This new generation of artists seem to have overcome the Zionist idea of the unity of Israel, but the works on the exhibition have a an element in common: they pay attention to the idea of territory and landscape, that still remains a constant.

Landscapes and visions of nature are landscapes and visions of the human being, where ideas and approaches meet around the fragility of existence. From the allegoric view of the tree felling shown in Ori Gersht’s videoinstallation The Forest to the landscape/memory in Varda Getzow’s installation, a powerful presence full of memories shows us that nature has memory from the past. From Gal Weinstein’s recreation of a mythical for the Israeli people as it is Lake Huleh, to Sharon Ya’ari’s documental photography, with that sensibility in relation to the abandoned and deserted, to the seemingly lazy and without singularity. Finally, Miki Kratsman’s Territory Series would have no sense without the general context of her works on the occupied territories.

On the other hand, Keren Assaf’s idealistic and pintoresque view of the American-Israeli dream, the place of the individual in a city like Tel Aviv in Yael Bartana’s video, Guy Ben-Her’s diary of a shipwrecked, Adi Nes’ aestheticist and symbolic images of the Israel troops, and also Rona Yefman’s images about human sexuality and the relationship between the individuals and their bodies, with the landscape and the social environment.

Finally, magic spaces like Taila Keinan’s curl on a constant transition or the magic of the perfect balance —just as a trick— in Eliezer Sonnenschein’s mountains of playing cards, with a fragility similar to that of Nadav Weissman’s installation, dwelled by ‘characters’ existing in a dimension half-way between childhood and maturity. And also, poetic references to mortality, vulnerability, boundaries, frontiers and, by extension, to the idea of territory and to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, in Sigalit Landau’s video.

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Switch on the power! Noise and the policies of music
First Floor
09 de June - 17 de September de 2006

Curator Xabier Arakistain

Switch on the power! Noise and policies of music brings together a series of artists from the world of art and music that share performance and aesthetic strategies. Through exhibits and/or videographic documents, this exhibition highlights and at the same time delves into the interactions arising between these artistic genres.

Renouncing the temptation to show today’s music as yet another theme in art, this project focuses on the singularity of artistic discursive practices that we see as being shared by pop, rock and other musical artists, as well as visual artists. In some cases, these artists have been part of trends such as Happening, Fluxus, Body-Art, different types of performance, etc., whereas others have followed the approaches of the artistic movements that emerged during the 20th century reinventing them by adding their own contributions, building artistic discourses that often transmit alternative values or critical political contents.

Regarding the relationship between Art, Rock and Politics-in the classical sense of the term- the exhibition includes the emblematic work by Dan Graham Rock my Religion and the video Save the Planet, Kill Yourself by Chris Korda, inviting us to enter the strategies that in the 1990s linked music and political activism. Finally, it is a pleasure to recover -twenty years after it was first broadcast on television, the TVE programme La Edad de Oro, directed by Paloma Chamorro- the video by the British Artist Genesis P-Orridge and his group Psychic TV. With this video we include documentation on the PANDROGENY project, which is currently being developed by Genesis.

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Diego Santome'. Temporary works
Annex Space
23 de June - 03 de September de 2006

Curator Inaki Martinez Antelo

Temporary works is intended to directly connect art and life, from a reflection on immateriality of the work of art and the processes involved on artistic production. In film format, this work tell us about the various actions undertaken at A'ngel’s, Trini’s, Adria'n’s, Mauricio’s and Geseica’s homes, and also at A.P.A.M.P. Asociation. These actions -whether concluded or not- prove the fragility of the boundaries between artistic and vital experiences.

From the beginning, the idea was taking the work out of the museum. The exhibition itself takes place at the leading person’s homes. It is in these private places where the social function of art is revealed, by means of open, unexpected relationships, generated among the public -the family itself and my work- an the everyday space, transformed in an exhibition room.

MARCO. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo
Rua Principe, 54 36202 Vigo Galicia

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