“ L’Herbier Merveilleux” title of Jean Michel Othoniel’s  last solo show will take place at Castillo Real in Provence from the 7th of July to the 30th of Septemeber. The exhibition gathers some of Othoniel’s works as well as the medieval miniatures of King René the 1st, Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence.
The exhibition is curated by Ado Bastié and it’s framed on the context of the tenth edition of APART (art contemporain des Alpilles et de Provence), festival of contemporary art which will take place in the city of Tarascon.

The current ACFNY Visiting Artist, Isabel Rocamora (U.K/ Spain) will present a screening of two of her short films. The artist/filmmaker will present Body of War and Horizon of exile on 1st August

Body of War (2010) reflects on how a man becomes a soldier through the relentless repetition of acts of violence. Set in the Normandy Landing geography, punctuated by testimonies of serving soldiers, a visceral hand-to-hand combat is gradually deconstructed – inviting the viewer to engage in the relationship between human intimacy and the brutality of war choreography. An observation of the momentary collapse of the heroic, Body of War stages the pathos of military strategy by using documented mise-en-scène as a form of discourse rather than celebration.

The relationship between architectural practice and artistic creation in the work of Juan Navarro Baldeweg (Santander, 1939) has marked out a territory with few limitations throughout the author’s creative career.  That concern for experiment, beyond the limits of architecture, has found one of its best examples in the project titled La mesa (The table, 1974-2005), made up of a large stage for positioning a number of pieces, in which balance, gravity and structural tension make up a unique work of art.

The sculpture comprises 31 works, positioned on a unique structure of 130 x 220 x 950 cm with a laboratory-style continuum in which the structural and formal combinations multiply on the large surface of the table to create dynamic spaces laden with meaning.

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Oleg Dou's work develops and pushes to the limit the idea of the human body as an object of subversion, distortion and other mutations that undermine their integrity.In an interview with Zoom Magazine, the young photographer said: “I have a passion for a human face. I use artificial nature of a digital photography as a tool to reach the point between opposites such as alive and dead, attractive and disturbing, beautiful and ugly.”

Oleg Dou uses digital photography to portray fictional characters and inquire about the concepts of beauty, perfection and innocence. His images, which refer to the video game universe, kitsch or fashion, are disturbing and calming at the same time, undoubtedly sick but peculiarly youthful and alive. With his extremely careful work, Dou encourages these ambivalent emotions, seeking to agitate the viewer’s sense of what is a normal appearance

Second participation of Espai 2NOU2 gallery in SWAB from May 26th to 29th with a selection of Spanish and international artists.

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Isabel Rocamora's exhibition, The Intimacy of Violence, extends to the Arts Santa Monica Museum where, suspended in its stairwell, we find the moving image dyptich, Fear, Defence, Disappearance (2011); until 12th June. Through an exploration of the simile between the blockhouses found on the Normandy beaches –now disused vestiges of the Second World War– and the young, fierce bodies of today's soldiers in training, this work questions established notions on the necessity for conflict and the mental and physical structures of defence built around it.

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The debut of director and writer Martin Sastre, an internationally recognized artist and gallery exhibited at SENDA as part of the fair LOOP 2009 with its video art "Forever Fever" and now debuts in film with his own script has been awarded with two silver biznagas the Malaga Film Festival.
MISS TACUAREMBÓ The film is based on a novel by Dani Umpi. The story follows a young girl growing up during the eighties in a small town north of Uruguay. Today, being an adult of 30 years, she discovers that none of his childhood fantasies came true.

Jaime Sunico is an artist that works with portrait painting. In these portraits are presented solemn faces of anonymous people in a uniform format that generates tensions and correspondences.The portrait is a traditional theme in the history of art, but Súnico focuses  from a risky conceptual perspective. Close-ups of faces are characterized by the use of saturated colors and a distinct material of the compositions. This riot of color and volume provides sculptural bas-relief profile to works. Thus, the paint manifests an explicit sensuality contrast to the harshness with which  Súnico treats the sitters.

From the 2 March 2011, the Centre Pompidou will show a one-man show of Jean-Michel Othoniel’s work from the beginnings of his career in 1987 to the present day.
In collaboration with the artist, the Centre Pompidou will offer a retrospective of his plastic work entitled My Way. Composed of an ensemble of 24 hitherto unseen works, the exhibition traces his career from the first, confidential, intimate and poetic works and then leads the visitor to discoverhis monumental works of spectacular dimensions which dazzle and fire the imagination.

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