This is the first time we participate in the leading art fair in Africa, specializing in the work produced on this continent. Our presence is articulated through a solo show of the photographer and video creator Anna Malagrida (Barcelona, 1970) who developed a project with the Instituto Cervantes in the city of Casablanca. This participation contributes  to other actions taken by the gallery recently exploring new emerging markets and promoting local artists represented by SENDA gallery (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Istanbul, Moscow, etc. ..) The work of Anna Malagrida reflects on the context that generates the image and nature based on concrete and fixed elements of social reality. A swing structured by the poetics of opposition between interior and exterior space, transparency and opacity, and reflection of the role of photography in contemporary world. She uses mainly photography and video, means that become its own object of thought: often operating by association and juxtaposition of planes on the same surface, works drawn, polysemic, intermingling more or less obvious references and citations to other media such as painting, sculpture and film, while preserving the specificity of the medium in which they operate. The presence of SENDA  gallery is supported  by  the Spanish Embassy in South Africa and the Government of Catalunya.

We are pleased to announce that  Espai 2NOU2 booth at the Summa  Fair of Madrid has won the Award of Photography Comunidad de Madrid Summa 2013 with the work of Rosell Meseguer "Tamarugal".
This work will form part of the collection of the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo.
The jury is composed of Isabell Rosell, José María Díaz-Maroto, Ferran Barenblit, Jose Guirao and Carmen Perez de Andrés.

Comprising two suites of photos— Socles and Walls—the project The Walls Spoke documents some of the slogans and graffiti that appeared between 2011 and 2013 in the wake of the social movements in Spain. It is a kind of photographic inventory of the barely visible traces of the scribblings or anonymous cries of protest that dirtied the walls of various buildings before they were swiftly erased. The images were taken on the walls of buildings, belonging mostly to banking or political institutions in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid.

The peaceful protests of the 15-M or Indignants movement, which sprang to life in May 2011, were followed by a prolonged series of demonstrations largely organised on social networks. These two suites of photos are predicated on a will to create an inventory and to record the print that these protests left on city walls, the places where indignant voices left their marks. The texts and words of the original inscriptions were compiled for this project in two formats: a diary and a projection accompanied by a soundtrack composed of original sound recordings from the demonstrations.

These works, which register traces and restore memory, also focus on the transformation of the photographed objects. In the photos grouped together in Socles one sees the remains of the cries of social protest, even though the actual painting has been erased and the voices silenced. The bases or plinths of the buildings are somehow transformed into unmovable, hieratic stone sculptures, not unlike the institutions they house. Presented in large format, the graffiti-covered Walls seem to the beholder like paintings born from social conflict. Likewise, the recording of the voices restores the original moment of the events, plunging the spectator into a journey in time

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Where does the work of an artist finish and start the next one? In a gallery the gap is set by the frame, but on the streets the situation changes. From this premise, Debens (Barcelona, 1980) invites Albert de Blobs, the duo Lolo and Sosaku, Hamada and Pau MF Mina to break this classic limitation  with the first urban art exhibition at gallery Senda. This "supergroup" will look forward the limit of works painted at 2, 4 and up to 6 hands, a mode of production that aims to show cooperative collective action and urban art.

Exhibition curated by Art From Chaos

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The artist Guillermo Pérez Villalta donated his private collection to the Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art. The agreement will includes more than 1000 works.

About 200 works form the exhibition "Souvenir of life’s. Legacy Guillermo Pérez Villalta"  was inaugurated on July 11 and will run until early 2014.

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The artist and singer Cody Critcheloe presents his show on June 28 from 01:00 at Razzmatazz in Barcelona.
Cody Critcheloe currently participates in the group exhibition Family Values at galeria SENDA​, curated by Michael Bevilacqua. The exhibition features colored pencils drawings and a photographic portrait shooted by Casey Spooner.

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Glenda Leon has inaugurated its participation in the 55th edition of the Venice Biennial for the Cuban Pavilion, with the sound installation Music of the spheres, which invites you to dream about travel in time and space and to reflect on the origins and evolution of western culture.

Music of the spheres is located in the National Archaeological Museum in Venice, surrounded by great greek gods who, in perpetual silence listen. Including Apollo, the god of light, and also of music.

Glenda and others artists like Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Sandra Ramos, Antonio Eligio and Lázaro Saavedra will participate in the Cuban Pavilion, identified with the perversion of the classic: anarchy in the stories. Curated by Jorge Fernández and Giacomo Zaza.

Here an installation video of Music of the spheres

Pinta London is the only art event dedicated to Latin American Art providing a platform to exhibit and promote artists. In this year Sandra Vásquez de la Horra present solo show of her works exhibited in Galeria Senda.

Sandra creates art with the technique of drawing and watercolor on dipped wax paper. The melancholic dreams and phantoms, which constantly appear in her oeuvre, recall to the political past experienced during her adolescence.

In 2009 she won the Prize for Contemporary Drawing, awarded by the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation in Paris, and later that year her work was exhibited in the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Sandra is from Chile, she lives and works in Berlin. She participates in Pinta Projects with others 9 artists like Armando Andrade Tudela, Jorge Pedro Nuñez, Oswaldo Macia and Rodrigo Matheus.

Pinta also includes artists from Spain and Portugal reflecting these countries undeniable influence in the formation of the Latin American identity.

 

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whiteonwhite

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 The first solo exhibition in Canada of artist Eve Sussman and her collaborative team Rufus Corporation brings together a series of interrelated films and videos, photographs and installations developed on numerous journeys through Russia and Central Asia.

The focus of the exhibition is the film installation whiteonwhite: algorithmicnoir, which draws on the radial abstractions and reflections on transcendence of Kasimir Malevich, and the fate of Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin, seen through the lens of science fiction and film noir cinematography.

 

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Glenda León (Havana, Cuba, 1976) is a visual artist based in Havana and Madrid. Her work expands from drawing to video art, including installation and photography. After her Solo Show “Bruit Bleu”in the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Montélimar, France (2013) and her current participation in the Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk (Poland), and in the Prefix Institute for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Glenda León is currently focusing on her upcoming participation at the 55th Venice Biennale where she will present, together with other artists, the Cuban Pavilion, curated by Jorge Fernandez.

 

The idea for the video “Inversión” arose from a conversation with two financiers and collectors of art. ”Inversión” has two meanings in Spanish:

1) to invest money on something
2) to turn something upside down.

This absurd gesture of inhaling money has obvious economic connotations: a reference to the current economic crisis, questioning of the most established structures of society and money as object of desire.

While most of the people work for money, I invest my time and even certain physical effort in destroying it. Making art has, after all, always been linked to a palpable or immediate social utility.

This is just a sketch of the multiple significations that this video may have; I leave a space of silence to be completed by the spectator.

Glenda León

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