Jaime Pitarch
dal 7/6/2002 al 13/7/2002
Segnalato da
7/6/2002
Jaime Pitarch
Hales Gallery, London
Barcelona based artist Jaime Pitarch's solo show at Hales Gallery comprises of an eclectic series of ongoing projects grouped together under the title of dispensable realities. At the heart of Pitarch's art is a poetry, which plays off perceived images against the raw materials from which Pitarch selects or forms them.
Dispensable Realities
Barcelona based artist Jaime Pitarch's solo show at Hales Gallery comprises of an
eclectic series of ongoing projects grouped together under the title of dispensable
realities.
At the heart of Pitarch's art is a poetry, which plays off perceived images against the
raw materials from which Pitarch selects or forms them. Many are simple and direct
manipulations onto maps or press photographs.
Included among the works in the show are enlarged photographs of burned discarded
matches, collected from clubs, bars, brothels and business meetings over the last five
years. The tips bare a striking resemblance to human skulls. Pitarch aims to produce
40 of these images in all (the number of matches in a box). So far from the 2,500
photographs he has taken - only 28 have been deemed suitable.
Also included are simple line drawings tracing the visual information of press
photographs on newsprint. The quality of the line flattens the image and fixes the
background and foreground on the same plane, the elements within the image lose
their hierarchical status. This process parallels the flattening of information itself, (the
vision of the photographer, the editors choice, the ideological orientation of the
newspaper etc...), so that it can be more easily consumed by the reader. Pitarch
reflects upon the fictionalisation of reality and the realisation of fiction.
The most recurrent theme in the cover pages of national newspapers (war) is also
present in a video that shows a group of plastic soldiers under attack of bomb like
explosions. These are in reality popcorn kernels exploding inside a microwave, where
the scene is being filmed.
Pitarchs works are both striking and surprising and made with an engaging wit.
Jaime Pitarchs previous solo shows Obis Mundana at Galeria dels Angels,
Barcelona and Henry Peacock Gallery, London, and Work in Progress at Galerie de
lecole Superieur de Beaux Arts, Grenoble.
Hales Gallery
70 Deptford High Street
London