ARCO Lisboa 2018

For the occasion, an installation composed of five pieces that was chosen which dialogues with each other in order to highlight and put in evidence the very personal style and the special concept of the German artist. Sculptures carved in wood and low-reliefs are constant in his production. The human figure represented always as an iconic form, at the same time the contrast with some of his other pieces that follow a more abstract and minimalist line; influenced intellectually and artistically by the sculptor Ulrich Rükriem. Balkenhol developed his own language by approximation and contrast of Rükriem artistic thoughts.

Stephan Balkenhol´s participation in the special projects section of ARCO Lisboa 2018 is part of the intense program of exhibitions that Stephan Balkenhol has displayed in the last years. Among them, deserve to be highlighted the very recent Retrospective in the Center of Contemporary Art in Malaga – CAC Málaga – where the sculptures here we presented were previously seen – and New Sculptures first individual of Balkenhol in Barcelona; Galeria SENDA.

The german sculpture has been characterized by the artist’s striving to re-ground figurative sculpture. He stood out against the prevailing tendencies is articulated through his very personal Technic. Balkenhol carving soft wood of Alamo and Obeche, materials that remain clearly visible in the work through chisel marks, cracks or knots in the wood. The work process left marks through slabs or splinters that contrast with polished areas. In most of the sculptures uses a single block of wood which usually polychrome to delimit the robes and theme include a pedestal in sculptures totem types that remains the popular art and refer to medieval carving techniques.

Balkenhol strength with his work an exchange with the viewer, which immerse in a deep atmosphere of complicity. The artist also underscores as part of the compromise with the contemporary, the different between the sculptural scale, as the ideal scale, and the human scale as the real standard.

 

 

Art Brussels 2018

Galeria Senda will be participating in 50th edition of Art Brussels whit works of the artists: AES+F, Stephan Balkenhol, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Anna Malagrida, Francis Ruyter, Glenda León y Aitor Ortiz.

 

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.