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

Jordi Bernado presents his new photographic project: a large series of images of architectural and urban landscapes of Spain captured under his characteristic ironic point of view and sensitive to the absurdity and contradiction. Bernadó conceives projects that squeezed a look and a very sharp mind. Despite having repeatedly explored American spaces and cities in Japan and Europe, he has always been close to Spain, attentive to the evolution of its landscape and the interior decoration associated with very different universes.

Galeria Senda is pleased to announce the recent review on Christopher Mir's gallery show last summer, published on the November 2009 issue of Artforum.

To download a copy of the review, please go here. 

For a preview of the works to be shown in Pulse Miami 2009, please go aquí.

The German artist Karin Kneffel (1957, Marl) presents a new solo exhibition in Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany. Especially for the exhibition, the artist has developed a new cycle of thirteen paintings that are inspired directly in the history of the building of the museum, which architect Mies van der Rohe constructed for Josef Esters as a residential house in the 1920s.

KARIN KNEFFEL
House on the Edge of Town
18.10.2009 > 17.01.2010
Museum Haus Esters
Krefeld
www.kunstmuseenkrefeld.de