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5/7/2007

Juan Luis Moraza

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Unknowns

Produced for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by artist Juan Luis Moraza, Unknowns is an essay-exhibition describing the mapping of modern and contemporary art in the Basque Country. The exhibition provides a series of graphic systems that put a whole range of factors, variables, references, artists, works, impressions, documents, places and significant events, interactions, incidents and anthropological and aesthetic suggestions in an order that is at once recognizable and relatively easy to assimilate.

At any given time, artists interweave their emotions with their impressions of reality, their experiences, their projects and desires, all of which gives their creative output a certain capacity to convey something more of what is most real about the subject and the world. At any given time, several generations of artists coexist who share the same present moment, and it is the differences between them and their communications that enhance the here and now, adding fertility, memory and transformation.

The derivations and developments visible in the art produced by a broad range of artists, from the survivors of the legendary Basque School back in the 1960s to today’s bright young things as they set out on their international adventure, shed light on aspects of reality not otherwise easy to appreciate: living artists today are active players on the art scene at a remarkably crucial point in time, one that has witnessed a seismic shift from the modern world to the contemporary era, one that has taken us all from the age of industrial production to a period dominated by service management techniques, from an age of local activity to one of global outreach, from the era of ideology to the age of the economy, from mythology to today’s information overkill, from linearity to complexity, from the past to the future.

Unknowns is an attempt to convey something of the subtlety, the intensity and the complexity of the artist in the Basque context; something of the diversity that has marked the generational, stylistic and ideological handover; something of the contextual labyrinth in which all this art emerged. By following the time lines of this fragmentary tale retold in three galleries on the Museum’s third floor, the spectator will be able to appreciate the sheer complexity of the cultural adventure undertaken by three generations of artists here in the Basque Country.

Guggenheim Museum
Avenida Abandoibarra, 2 - Bilbao

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