José Pedro Croft, the representative of Portugal in Venice Biennale, will exhibit at Galeria Senda on March 2017

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Critics consider José Pedro Croft one of the renovators in Portuguese sculpture, and one of the most representative figures in the artistic international panorama. He personifies a coherent and constant artistic trajectory, who aside from working with Galeria Senda for more than fifteen years, Croft will have a solo show in the space in Barcelona in March 2017.

Invited by Álvaro Siza, one of the most important names in the architecture field, José Pedro Croft will work together with him in a large project that will begin in the Architecture Biennial in Venice and will culminate in the Arts Biennial in 2017. Although Portugal does not have an official pavilion in any of the Biennials, his project will represent the country for both events.

The Portuguese exhibit is the only one, because it will be installed in the island of Giudecca in Venice, where Siza’s social dwelling project, created in 1985, can be found: Campo di Marte. This project, related with social architecture, was formed by four architects (Aldo Rossi, Arlos Aymonino, Rafael Moneo and Siza himself) and he was never able to complete it because he didn’t have enough funding. Campo di Marte was composed by four buildings that conform an interior patio where José Pedro Croft is in charge of creating a source of dialogue with a space built by these buildings. All of this will take place in the 15th Architecture Biennial, which will be from May 28th until November 27th of this year.

In reference to the 57th Arts Biennial in Venice (from May 13th until November 26th in 2017), Croft also represented Portugal with an installation curated by João Pinharanda, which will create dialogue with Siza’s architecture project. The artist will build a monumental sculpture in the Campo di Marte and it will be made with iron, mirrors and glass, three elements that characterize Croft’s artistic proposal.

Adrián Balseca, participates in Ecuador: The center of the world (and a little beyond)

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Pablo José Ramírez , curator and political theorist, has written an article for the space Cites and Places on the page of the Cisneros Collection, based on European migration to Ecuador and its influence in the architecture and other elements of the country.

Ramirez comments: “Reflecting on the relation between history-aesthetics-politics, I will try, with this text, to sketch, draw and imagine views that come close to the modern and contemporary Ecuador, through different conceptual paths through the pre-Colombian and colonial history.”

In the text there are images of courtesy from artists such as Adrián Balseca, Oswaldo Terreros, and José Falconi, who reflect the artistic and thought-provoking focus that they give to Ecuador and its unfinished modernity.

“This critical approach from contemporary art in Ecuador is not necessarily founded in the logics of “socially compromised art”, nor much less in art that discusses politics, but rather a much wider meaning. These proposals sabotage different places of power: collections, archives, national emblems, normalized identities” (Ramírez, 2016)

Complete article here.

 

 

 

 

¿Who was really Ángeles Santos?

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As part of the Women’s Views Biennial  2016, galería  SENDA  has organized a talk focused on  life and work of Spanish artist Ángeles Santos Torroellla.

The  WVB-2016 it is an event that brings together different initiatives to show the creative activity of women and their large demonstrations in a national and international way. It’s taking place from March to December 2016, the Women’s Views Biennial will bring together initiatives that make women and gender issues a source for reflection, debate and creation.

Ángeles Santos Torroella is a painter  that  deserves an special place in the Spanish surrealist painting, born in Portbou in 1911, moves at sixteen years old to Valladolid where she takes painting classes and two years later created, whats it’s going to be  his first major work, Un Mundo,  large format oil that caused a sensation among the intellectual media of the time, particularly considering that the artist was a young woman living in the provinces, too far from the capital’s cultural scene to have come across any of the advances of the new art movements.  Currently this work is exposed as a permanent work in the National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. In 1929 she has his first solo show at the Ateneo of Valladolid , since that she begins a long artistic career full of  ups and downs that ends after his dead in 2013.

Talk:  Life and work

 

Speakers:

 Anna Capella, art historian, curator of expositions , ex director of  the Museo del Empordà and  current director of   Museo of Mataró, author of the book  Ángeles Santos, Between life and painting (2011).

 Cristina Massanes, Journalist and writer , was curator of the exposition  (Re)visions del món. 100 anys d’Ángeles Santos Torroella (2011).

 

 Rosa Brugat, Visual art,  Author of the  video art Buenas noches, Inspired  in the paint, El mundo de Mª Santos Torroella, the video will be displayed after the talk.

 

Date: 7 julio 2016

Time:  19 hrs

“Imaging Faith” of Isabel Rocamora in The Summerhall, Edinburgh.

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Isabel Rocamora’s Imaging Faith centres on Faith, a film triptych which intimately observes the act of worship of the three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem. Set in the wilderness of the Holy Land – the historically significant landscapes of the Judean desert, far from the built and contested territories – an Orthodox Jew (Cohen descent), a Greek Orthodox Christian (Father, Church of Nativity) and a Sunni Muslim (Quran reader, Al Aqsa Mosque) perform their morning prayers. In time, their synchronous action reveals an uncanny similarity of inner state and gestural intention. Questioning segregation while celebrating difference, Faith contemplates issues of human belief, inviting reflection on one of the most tragic, world resonating conflicts that persist in this new century.

 

In the adjoining gallery a series of still images offer a window into Rocamora’s research in Jerusalem, culturally and politically contextualising the film triptych. A dedicated reading room provides a contemplative space in which six contemporary thinkers (historians, theologians and philosophers, including Gil Anidjar, Mark Cauchi, Victoria Rocamora and Simon Critchley) have been invited to curate passages from seminal texts in response to the themes of the exhibition.

 

Imaging Faith presents the UK premiere of this new body of work by the Edinburgh-based artist as well as the first exhibition of Rocamora’s work in Scotland.

 

Galeria SENDA organises talks about Europe

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Regarding this year’s topic of DOCfield>16 “Europe: Lost in translation”, Galeria SENDA has organised a series of conversations with interesting characters in the context of the work “Europa” by Jordi Bernadó.

In this project, Bernadó starts a journey through 27 cities, portraying landscapes and perspectives of the continent to create the book “Europa”. The following conversations are inspired in those images:

 

First talk: “Europe has not always existed”
Tuesday May 24th, 2016. 19h.
Galeria Senda

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Juanjo Lahuerta: He’s an Architect and professor of Art History and Architecture in the School of Architecture of Barcelona. He has been a member of the Collegio Docenti della Scuola Dottorati del Istituto Universitario di Architettura IUAV of Venice and has had the title of the Kina Juan Carlos I Chair of Spanish Culture and Civilization in New York University. He’s currently the Chief of Collection of MNAC.

 

Second talk: “Europe and its ghosts”
Monday June 13th, 2016. 19h.
Galeria Senda

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Valentín Roma: He holds a PhD in Philosophy and a BAS in Art History. He was the Head Curator of MACBA until 2015. In 2009, he won the contest to curate the first Catalonian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. He’s currently the Director of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge.

 

Third talk: “Europe in the labyrinth”
Monday June 27th, 2016. 19h.
Galeria Senda

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Juan Corona: He holds a PhD in Economic Sciences; he’s a professor in Applied Economics and a permanent member of the Royal Academy of Doctors. Author of a vas work in economics and enterprises matters, he has also been an advisor for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and several programmes of the European Union.

 

 

Anna Malagrida was awarded with the Carte Blanche of the PMU and Centre Pompidou

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After the jury’s deliberation among six finalists, Anna Malagrida received the award on January 20 of this year. In her project, Anna imagines the places “of Paris” as a scenic device in which, from their movement, the characters will become the actors, the reflections of the city mixed with the insides of cafe’s, the decoration; and the words united in the universe of chance, the text.

Through the “Carte Blanche” award, the PMU shows its compromise with contemporary photographic creation, giving carte blanche to the artists so they can take their vision into the universe of chance.

For the seventh edition, the PMU has launched an open call to any professional photographer or artist. The winner will get a prize of 20,000 euros for the realization of an unpublished project, a book from Filigranes publishing and an exhibition in the Photographic Gallery of the Centre Pompideu from September 28th to October 17th 2016.

The Photographic Gallery is an open space of the Centre Pompideu of free entrance and dedicated exclusively to photography. This new gallery of 200 m2 wants to open the richness of the photographic collection of the Centre Pompideu to the public, conformed by more than 40,000 pieces and more than 60,000 negatives.

“Anna Malagrida opens a window to a space that confronts the urban and the human and proposes a sensible interpretation of a social link form that unites behind the windows” Benoît Cornu, Communications Director of the PMU, president of the jury.