Places categories: IVAM Centre Julio González

We start a series of conversations between artists, whose aim is to connect works and projects that are similar in some way –or which present differences- with the intention of laying key concepts on the table, which will allow people to understand the contemporary artistic practice. Our intention is to be able to create a dialogue, to rethink, to imagine or to compare ideas, so that these, and their specification in several art forms, become again a consubstantial element of the debate on culture and contemporary art. Also, so that the artists themselves can present them.

Toño Barreiro (Zamora, 1965) has been developing since the mid-eighties, a multidisciplinary work that alternates between photography, painting, sculpture and digital processes. The questioning of the limits of the pictorial medium, through play with sculptural elements, breaking the traditional frame of painting and digital techniques, is a constant in the work. In his work you can see a number of new methodologies and creative processes that lead to winding and synesthetic paintings, playing with the concept of deconstruction, the symbiotic, or the most basic biological processes.

Sergio Barrera (Valencia, 1967). “Painting is a way to learn from the findings of others, as Science says. Something that from the perspective of tradition and its modes of transmission is more than obvious, of course. In this regard and in front of the doubt the ideas raised on copyright and authorship, although management option is only as Dada and conceptual game and drift, if one prefers to make a painting that, despite my presence in practice, cut themselves off from the personal. the paint and wallpaper are not shown on the idea of ​​ownership over what is done, but in any case, the possibility, in the opening direction. Remarkably, this reflection is the product of a series of observation pictorial gestures that are repeated as a constant, both in paintings that I did and many others. Gestures, in a broad sense, whose appearance can be seen almost the same frequencies and intensities. ” (From the press release of the exhibition RECORD A SCENE, overlapping and intertwining. Gallery SET)

We continue the series of conversations between artists whose aim is to connect works and projects that are similar in some way –or which present differences- with the intention of laying key concepts on the table, which will allow people to understand the contemporary artistic practice. Our intention is to be able to create a dialogue, to rethink, to imagine or to compare ideas, so that these, and their specification in several art forms, become again a consubstantial element of the debate on culture and contemporary art. Also, so that the artists themselves can present them.

Conversation between artists Salomé Cuesta and Maria Jose Martinez de Pison, professors at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Polytechnic University of Valencia and member of the Laboratory of Light.

Since 1990 the Laboratory of light located at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Valencia, works as a meeting, study and research of aesthetic and expressive principles linked to image-light. Currently, laboratory components belong to different departments and their participation varies depending on the proposals that are being developed: working between the collective and the individual, between university research and artistic activities, including the production of projects and word spread, and open to those who want to develop their work under this structure interdisciplinary field.

On the occasion of the presentation of the Aplec of Design, the IVAM organized a round table on editorial design with the components of the group: Sebastián Alós,  Dídac Ballester, Antonio Ballesteros, Alejandro Benavent, and Iban Ramón Enrique Casp. Moderator: Álvaro de los Angeles

Gallery 4 in the exhibition “Building new worlds 1914-1945.”

Conversation between the artist, Rogelio López Cuenca, and the curator of the exhibition and curator at the IVAM, Teresa Millet, on the occasion of the exhibition “RADICAL GEOGRAPHICS Rogelio López Cuenca”.

Rogelio López Cuenca, Nerja 1959, focuses his artistic practice on the analysis of mass media, the construction of identities and cultural criticism. He develops this work by means of publications, courses, exhibitions, interventions in public urban spaces, on TV or on the Internet (www.malagana.com), resorting to his own processes not only of visual arts but also of literature and social sciences.

In April, May and June of 2015 he has coordinated several sessions of the No/w/here Valencia workshop, which he organised with the collaboration of the School of Fine Arts of the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia.

The city is a collection of trophies, a permanent public exhibition of the booty that was accumulated by the consecutive victors throughout history. But this deposit of legitimation documents is also a store of filed cases, forced to close, unresolved, denied: an archive of omission, the dismissed pages of the memory of those who were ignored, the deleted verses of the songs of the forgotten.