Cloud in a Raindrop by Ebru Uygun

The well-known Turkish artist expose a set composed by a variety of more that ten works produced this current year. Across an intense and impulsive process, Ebru Uygun remits us the fragmented dreaminess, where the ideas of time, rhythm and liturgical repetition lie.

Ebru Uygun works with four swathes of canvas, first painted and then deconstructed by her hands. She tears the painted material into strips, a performance that becomes physically demanding; once begun she cannot stop. We can easily imagine her working with unfettered abandon, relieved of rules, structures or any traditional painting practice. Uygun also archives the sound of this performance, recording all the audio activity at the studio, from the violent act of tearing of the canvas to the heavy breathing of her toil.

In this way, this pictorial reconstruction creates a not deliberate composition, where the colour fragments change from two to three dimension in a chance of pictorial bas-relief. Her picture becomes sensorial and the surface turn into an textures object which remits us to the techniques of assemblage or collage with threads, strips and pieces of material, hanging from the canvas.

This laborious technique resembles to a ritual process that invades the work of spirituality across artistic and unconscious drives. Through this practice, the artist highlights the evolution of the work process as an emancipation process of the pictorial traditional practice in an act of construction and deconstruction. The appealing fragility of this random composition brings us to the aesthetic knowledge via the poetical meditation.

ARCO Madrid 2018

Booth 9F06

February 21–25, 2018
IFEMA Madrid

We are pleased to participate in ARCO Madrid 2018, presenting works by Stephan Balkenhol, Jordi Bernadó, José Pedro Croft, Peter Halley, Yago Hortal, Glenda León, Anna Malagrida, Jaume Plensa and Sandra Vásquez de la Horra.

Visions de Berlín: Jaume Plensa, Miralda, Jordi Bernadó & Chema Alvargonzález

Cultural ephemerid and urban phenomenon recognized worldwide, the German capital was and still is synonymous with change, with transmutation. LAB36 offers multiple and heterogeneous perspectives, in the same way the city does. Political, poetic, impossible and pondered visions converge.

A group of Spanish artists invites us to walk around the city, from the divided Berlin to the current urban environment. In Taste Point Charlie (1979), the filmic journey and the fantasy of trespassing broadcasted by an inquiring Miralda reveal the violence of a cleaved city, ten years before the fall of the Wall. On the other hand, Plensa brings us closer to the more solemn and human side of the metropolis through the work he produced in Berlin, in the 80’s. While Jordi Bernadó presents the aftermath of History, Chema Alvargonzález delivers a chronicle of collapse and shows us a newer Berlin too. The latter two are the ones who capture, by means of the photographic lens, the fragmented reality of a later city—prelude to a destiny that is as much uncertain as promising.

Glenda León: Dirigir las nubes

Addressing clouds

According to a renowned scientist of quantum physics, there is evidence that, having achieved the degree of concentration and will needed, any individual can direct the clouds. The event occurred on different parts of the world but has seldom been seen, since nowadays almost no one looks carefully at the sky.

However, many people have found quite accurate shapes in the clouds, but they remain ignoring its peculiar origin.

Art Brussels 2017

Galeria Senda will be participating in Art Brussels 2017 that will take place in the exhibition space Tour & Taxis. In this edition will be hosting artworks from the renowned artists: Stephan Balkenhol, Gao Xingjian, Jaume Plensa, José Pedro Croft, Ola Kolehmainen, Anthony Goicolea, James Clar, Oleg Dou and Peter Halley.

VOLTA NY 2017: Anthony Goicolea + James Clar

Galería SENDA booth present the works of American-Cuban artist Anthony Goicolea with his most recents works Double Projection Shadow Portrait III and Anonymous Self-Portrait. For its part LAB 36 will show the characteristics lighting installations of the visual artist James Clar.

ARCO Madrid 2017

Galeria SENDA will participate in ARCOMadrid with works by Peter Halley, Anna Malagrida, Ola Kolehmainen, James Clar, Yago Hortal and Francis Lisa Ruyter. We will also exhibit pieces by Miralda and José Pedro Croft, participants of this year’s edition of the Venice Biennale. Finnaly, we will have works by major sculptors such as Jaume Plensa and Stephan Balkenhol.

Stand 9F08.

Gino Rubert: Un retrato de familia

LAB 36 presents Gino Rubert’s latest and most ambitious work “Open House”, a site specific piece commissioned by a good friend and art collector.

The complicity and confidence between artist and patron – “you have complete freedom” Vicenç told him – and the large format of the commissioned work – two meters wide by almost nine meters long – has hinted at Rubert’s work process, reformulating and making his language more sophisticated in order to display a gallery of people and situations that do not have former precedents.

Open House is a family portrait in which references, allusions, quotes, and winks to the patron are conjoined with the characters and distinguished environments that the artist portrays. The personal emblem of the commissioner – a V resting over the valley of an M – designed by Gino for the occasion, is carved in iron on the door and etched into the wood of a chair. Some of their family members appear with a sweetly perverse irony: the mother-in-law, converted into a little girl/old woman who drags her daughter-doll; the father, transformed in a little boy/old man with three eyes; or the wife and son, reincarnated into Andalusian puppets. And, of course, Vicens is portrayed as a party guest who offers a “mermaid cauldron” posing in a gesture that reminds us of the figures of patrons that appear in the medieval polyptychs.

Opening times:

Friday, February 17: 16-20h
Saturday, February 18: 16-20h
Tuesday, February 21: 16-20h

Contemporary Istanbul 2016

Galeria Senda will participate on the 11th edition of Contemporary Istanbul with a selection of works by artists such as Peter Halley, AES+F, Francis Lisa Ruyter, Ola Kolehmainen, among others. Join us at Booth A1-115!

Phosphorescence by Estefanía Urrutia

The Phosphorescence exhibition shows a series of paintings that focus on the isolation of the individual in our society. The series reflects situations of absolute intimacy where the subject is totally isolated from all surroundings and is immersed in the light emitted by certain electronic devices.

Light takes on a spiritual connotation. If someone unaware of the meaning of the screen itself were to observe the scenes that make up Phosphorescence, they would think something magical or mystical was happening.

Silence, stillness, calm. The invasion of the intimate space.

The characters appear from the shadows and are immersed in this light that traps them. The subtlety of the darkness makes their faces appear blurred, and lose their identity, in a metaphor for depersonalisation.

“A phosphorescent jewel gives off its glow and colour in the dark and loses its beauty in the light of day. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.” (Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows)

Place: LAB 36, Calle Trafalgar 36, Barcelona.

Visiting hours: Tuesday – Friday 4pm to 8pm