Ola Kolehmainen, who will present his work at Senda Gallery from July 15th until July 31st is showing his new project titled South of home-Journey of a mind at the 17th Biennale of Sidney that takes place from May 12th until August 1st.
South of home-Journey of a mind is composed by a series of projections of iconic modernist buildings, not only from Sydney but also from elsewhere that the artist has captured previously with photographs. These projections let us see the approaching of the artist to the material he wants to interpret, to what he tries to depict, in an abstract way, mystifying photography itself and giving qualities that have more to be with the elements he shows in reality than the thing in its iconic nature. Despite what we could think, there are no digital manipulations in the images.

Gao Xingjian who won the Nobel prize in Literature will show his paintings at Casal Solleric in Palma de Mallorca with the exhibition Al fons del món.
From June 3rd to July 11th this place will exhibit the work of this versatile artist. The main characterictic of this work is the fusion between oriental and occidental culture. The ink or the rice paper become into the vehicle to investigate the pictoric matter and give it a pure contemporary sense in which there is no evidence of bounderies between abstraction and figuration.

Karin Kneffel, Professor of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and former outstanding disciple of Gerhard Richter, shows in Kunsthalle Tübingen from the 1st of May to 11th of July a retrospective presenting paintings of the last twenty years. Her work is characterized by a will of creation, that has its origins in the baroque paintings, with topics as landscapes, animals and fruits. For more information, click here

Mapfre foundation will show Anna Malagrida's retrospective exhibition in Madrid, which includes all the works done between 1998 and 2010, including the series Interiores, Barrio Chino, En la Sombra,  Vistas Veladas, etc.

Invitation, click here

Video Art Fair LOOP will open its doors on May 20th. Senda Gallery and Vanguardia Gallery, in Bilbao, will present the video entitled Frontera by Anna Malagrida (video loop, 6’ 25”, 2009).

Malagrida chooses an ancient line between Spain and France, a scene of numerous battles, to reflect the experience of the past and the present.

Through the appearance and disappearance of a red smoke in a spring landscape, ideas about bounderies, temporality and collective memories are taken up again. These collective memories are seemingly forgotten, because the who could remember them are not alive anymore.

On the other hand, Espai 2NOU2, will exhibit the video-installation Canciones para mi mochila: La herencia que me dejaron mis hermanos al caer (2009) by Rodolfo Peraza.

In this work Peraza analyzes hymns of the period of the Spanish Franco-dicatatorship and points out the control and contamination of the human population by totalitarian regimes.

Espai 2nou2 supports the fair of emergent art Swab, presenting and confronting works of the artists Jaime Súnico, Christhopher Mir, Anna Malagrida, Annette Merrild and Yago Hortal .

Jaime Súnico will be the main protagonist, presenting five portraits of monks of the serie that will be shown in Montserrat´s museum, being composed by oils of big format.

The photographers Jordi Bernadó (Lleida, 1966) and Massimo Vitali (Como, 1944) present a new project that pretends to do a portrait of Barcelona through one of the most emblematic public spaces of this city, la Rambla.

Each photographer, faithful to their visual poetry, present their personal vision of la Rambla, two faces, two profiles, two ways to view this place. Bernadó gets inside the buildings of la Rambla and takes purified images contained in hiden places. Vitali portraits the public and cosmopolitan side of la Rambla with panoramic views that capture the crowd in the urban space as a scene of the massive turism. This doble photographyc chronicle proposes, from the particularity of la Rambla, a reflection about architecture, urbanism and the transformation of the contemporary city in the new global age.

To view the press article published in  La Vanguardia, click here

SENDA will participate for the first time in Armory Show 2010 fair with a selection of works by the following Spanish and international artists:

– Michael Bevilacqua
– José Pedro Croft
– Karin Kneffel
– Anna Malagrida
– Massimo Vitali

For a preview of selected works, please click here

From the 25th of February to the 24th of March, the works of Gino Rubert and Oleg Dou will be in display at the exhibition «ATOPÍA. Arte y ciudad en el siglo XXI» of the CCCB (Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona).The show will be curated by Josep Ramoneda and the art critic Ivàn de la Nuez.

At B’ART, the new gallery space of the College of Architecture of Catalunya (COAC), Joaquim Chancho shows for the first time his artist's book Teoria dels Senyals. During these weeks we can also see six large format compositions at the Volart gallery of Fundació Vila Casas in his solo exhibition Seqüencies curated by Glòria Bosch.

Teoria dels senyals
04.02.2010>01.02.2010
B'ART del COAC
Barcelona

Sequències
21.01.10 > 20.03.10
l’Espai Volart2, Fundació Vila Casas
Barcelona