Susy Gomez
dal 17/5/2000 al 16/7/2000
Segnalato da
17/5/2000
Susy Gomez
IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia
A Few Things That I Used To Call Mine.
This is the first solo exhibition in a Spanish museum
of Susy Gómez (Pollença, Majorca, 1965). She
studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona and
held her first exhibition at the Galeria Norai in
Pollença in 1987. She burst onto the Spanish scene
in the early nineties, causing great surprise with her
solo exhibition at the Fundació Joan Miró in
Barcelona (Sense TÃtol, Espai 13, 1993) and later at
the GalerÃa Luis Adelantado in Valencia and the
Galeria Maior in Pollença (1994), and with her
participation in successive editions of ARCO. Since
then she has presented a dozen solo exhibitions, including Sense TÃtol. New
Art (Galeria
Toni TÃ pies-Edicions T, Barcelona, 1996), La Casa Que Hoy Soy (Galleria
Giorgio Persano,
Turin, 1997), With A Kiss (Centre of Contemporary Art Ileana Tounta, Athens,
1998) and
Maldito Corazón (Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, 1999).
Susy Gómez's work is characterised by its great technical versatility,
ranging from drawing
to video and including hybrid techniques that she has made her own, such as
computer
manipulation of collage, photographic enlargement of drawings and
presentation of
large-scale decontextualised images, always with great symbolic
possibilities. The
restricted range of media and the clinical treatment of image and object
define her work as
distinctly intimist, with all the elements forming part of everyday life. Her
work focuses on a
study of the subject, but from different viewpoints and in constant
transformation. In this
way, part of Susy Gómez's work is structured around the idea of the end of
innocence.
The wide range of proposals and categories that can be seen in her work,
continuing the
tradition begun by Post-Minimalism which rejects form for form's sake without
seeking to
impose any other possibility, connects her with the most current aesthetics
related with the
body and female identity. A mere enumeration of the images with which she
works-hearts,
houses, dresses, landscapes-suggests themes such as love, the interior and
appearances,
childhood and memory, artistic creation, what one is and those who are close
to one,
among others. Susy Gómez's images have an aspect of objectivity, but
gradually they
become illustrations of tremendous, powerful obsessions. They are, in a way,
indebted to
Surrealism, considered as a broader tradition extending from Buñuel to Louise
Bourgeois
and Bruce Nauman. Her world is peopled by recognisable forms and objects that
will
certainly have a specific significance for the spectator. In various
combinations and
configurations, they form a kind of three-dimensional visual poem that is at
the same time
evocative, playful and passionate.
Organised by:
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno
Curator: Enrique Juncosa
IVAM Centre del Carme
46003 Valencia
opening hours
tuesday to sunday
11 am to 2.30 pm
4.30 to 7 pm
monday: closed
admission: free