Fran Meana
dal 24/1/2012 al 15/3/2012
Segnalato da
24/1/2012
Fran Meana
Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona
The exhibition title, Greenroom, refers to a space in a theatre, television studio or similar venue which accommodates performers who are not on stage. The show comprises an installation that relies on a layering of disparate elements and combining construction materials, geometric structures, video and found objects.
NoguerasBlanchard is pleased to announce Fran Meana's Greenroom, the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery. In line with his recent practice, the exhibition comprises an installation that relies on a layering of disparate elements and combining construction materials, geometric structures, video and found objects. Meana builds a personal methodology constantly adding new data, dubious family members, fictional structures or deliberately inaccurate readings in order to investigate two of his abiding themes: the construction of historical narratives and the questioning of temporal structures - past, present and future.
The exhibition title, Greenroom, refers to a space in a theatre, television studio or similar venue which accommodates performers who are not on stage. The amalgamation of characters, situations and narratives which take place here usually contradict the temporal and narrative logic of the official script. It is here that we find the encounters and conflicts which will never happen on stage. Fran Meana relocates the concept of 'green room' to the gallery space inferring casual associations among the exhibited objects and sculptures. As fragments or components that are simultaneously complete and incomplete, they activate parallel narratives that act as a counterpoint to the story narrated in the video Algunas cosas no funcionan y aún así son útiles (Some things don't work and still, they are useful).
The video tells the story of a character who in the 1950's emigrates to Venezuela, a tropical ex-colony, to embark upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. Having spent most of his life working in an industrial factory, he finds hope in his mechanical work routine through the illusion that one day he'll succeed in this utopian project.
Most works in the exhibition are somehow related to the story in the video. Found objects, construction materials, a system of objects, images and texts are decontextualized and re-defined by their mutual dependence or interaction with other objects while emphasizing their individual aesthetic quality. According to the artist, the raw finishes relates the objects to the past and future alike. In this way, the temporal ambiguity suggested by his aesthetic, allows for multiple non-linear narratives where reality and fiction are interwoven and the story folds in on itself without following a logical pursuit.
Fran Meana (Avilés, 1982). Recent exhibitions include: Delimitations: An Exhibition of Contemporary Spanish Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, IL (2012); La cuestión del Paradigma. Genealogías de la emergencia en el arte contemporáneo en Cataluña, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, SP (2011); Antes que todo (Before Everything), CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles (2010); Basado en hechos reales, ARTIUM Collection, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2010); Everything is out there, 'Inéditos' La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2010); 89Km., MARCO, Vigo/ CGAC, Santiago de Compostela (2010); Educando el saber, Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, León (2010). Fran Meana currently lives in Rotterdam where he is studying the Master of Fine Arts at Piet Zwart Institute.
Image: Guerrilla Garden, 2010, plant living on five copies of “On Guerrilla: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries (Softcover)'
NoguerasBlanchard
Xuclà 7 - Barcelona
monday to friday: 10.30 am to 7 pm
saturday: by appointment
Free admission