Once again this year, SENDA is pleased to announce that we will be back at By Invitation 2024, an exhibition of modern and contemporary art that, for the fifth consecutive year, will be held at the Círculo Ecuestre de Barcelona.
With the intention of fostering the dialogue between different artistic currents, By Invitation 2024 will feature invited galleries and selected projects, covering both the secondary market and the primary market of established and emerging artists from the national scene. The show will be mostly made up of galleries from Barcelona, although there will also be galleries from other parts of Spain, such as Madrid, Valencia and Gijon.
In this edition, SENDA has its own space to present its gallery proposal: the Japanese Room. The imposing room will host the works of a wide variety of artists, reflecting the versatility of the gallery. From the Chinese ink lithographs of Gao Xingjian, to the dreamlike sculptures of Gonzalo Guzman, the imposing acrylic paintings of Yago Hortal, the colorful wooden creations of Mina Hamada, the black and white photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, or the mixed media compositions of the internationally renowned Jaume Plensa.
In particular, we would like to let you know that the hall will be an accomplice of a tribute to the famed painter Joan Miró on the occasion of his year of celebration. The piece presented will be a watercolor, “Aquarelle sur papier”, from the artist’s Japanese series. A perfect work to be exhibited in a room full of oriental influences.
If you do not want to miss the opportunity to be part of this exhibition, ask for your accreditation in the link below. See you from the 7th to the 10th of November at the Círculo Ecuestre de Barcelona.
Last Wednesday, La Central Llibreria de Barcelona was the setting for the presentation of the latest monograph by Jordi Bernadó, “Project ID”. The event, in collaboration with the Museu Nacional De Catalunya and galeria SENDA, with the participation of the journalist Sergio Vila San Juan.
Jordi Bernadó is a photographer with a cosmopolitan and curious vision, a tireless traveler who has left his mark on the world of photography contemporary. One of his latest works, ID Project , was exhibited at the MNAC during the summer of 2022, and has become in the central axis of a publication that explores the complete work of this artist.
What makes Bernadó’s work so interesting is his “relational” approach. Instead of simply capturing images of his subjects, Bernadó acts as an intermediary between the subject and the audience, asking the subject to choose the place where he wants to be photographed. The result is a stage inhabited by a single person, whose identity is not revealed in the image, but in the accompanying text, written by Laura Ferrero.
This approach creates a territory of social experimentation and offers an alternative to the uniformity of human behavior. Instead of simply observing the subjects, Bernadó involves them in the creative process and makes them full participants in the final result. It is an approach that seeks to establish a relationship of trust between the photographer and the subject, and that allows the final image to be a truer and more authentic representation of the person being photographed.
Alejandro Castellote, for his part, carries out an acute and multifaceted analysis of Bernadó’s career, exploring the different readings that can be made of his work and his artistic approach. The publication, co-published with the MNAC in Barcelona and in collaboration with the Senda gallery in Barcelona, is a work that not only explores the work of an artist, but also delves into the very nature of photography and its ability to connect with the world around us.
During the presentation, Bernadó explained this “relational” approach and how this technique allows him to involve his subjects in the creative process and create more authentic and true images. He also spoke of his love of travel and exploration, and how it has influenced his work. It was an opportunity to discover the work of a unique artist in the world of contemporary photography. “ID Project” is a monograph that not only explores Bernadó’s work, but also delves into the very nature of photography and its ability to connect us with the world around us.
After the recent inauguration of the monographic exhibition “Zush in Ibiza ”, at the Fundació Suñol in Barcelona, in collaboration with the Museu d’Art Contemporani d’Eivissa, Evru/Zush returns to exhibit part of his work conceived in Ibiza (1968-1983), a fundamental period for the artist, who experimented with very different formats and techniques never seen before. Precisely at that time, in 1968, the young artist Albert Porta decided to become Zush and carry out a creative self-healing strategy after he had passed through the phrenopathy hospital in Barcelona.
If we were to read in a prestigious medium in the art world that an artist has created a highly personal proposal that is absolutely coherent, ingenious, solid and bold in the metaverse, with avatars and codes, languages of the world video game or augmented reality, with stereoscopic images, colors and unreal worlds, providing a radically new scenario to the world of creation, we would launch ourselves to discover the proposal of this advanced Artist.
That is precisely what Zush already did, more than 40 years ago!
Booth view 9B21 (Artist Project) #1
Booth view 9B21 (Artist Project) #2
Evrugo Mental State, a world as real as our own, but existing in an uncertain place (which today we would probably translate as some sort of metaverse) with its own language, characters that inhabit it, currency, anthem and so many other characteristics typical of a real world, it was worked on and defined by him for years and presented in different contexts, we have seen it at MACBA, at the Reina Sofía, the São Paulo biennials or at Documenta, and even in the fantastic exhibition of the “Wizards of the Earth” at the Pompidou Center by Jean Huber Martin.
That real world, it has been and it is and that shows us how advanced in his time our honoree always was and is, who launched himself to investigate and create (through some devices, then called Personal Computers and that were unattainable except for a few professionals or researchers) and with them, through tools that would surprise us today, to continue creating their fascinating world. The WWW had not even been imagined then. Before our today.
Several words like Scanahrome or Infographics had to be invented. Works worked through digitalization and then in some cases printed on those rudimentary devices that today we would call plotters.
Zush is undoubtedly a universal pioneer in this world and that is why we want to pay tribute to his work.
“My thing is individual mythologies. I am someone who generates his own way of thinking, of seeing reality or of seeing the world. What interests me is being a bridge between sanity and madness”.
Evru/Zush
Renusa, 1989-1990
Acrylic painting on photography paper mounted on wood
200 × 100 × 5 cm
Thus, once again, the bells are once again the protagonists in space, this time accompanied by their famous nagas, Hindu deities with a human face and torso, generally of a woman, and the body of a snake. In this way, the desire to return to being Evru materializes, under the representation of snakes, beings that, like the artist himself, shed their skin in a natural process of renewal and growth. This desire for transformation is a constant in his career, through turning points that allow him to reflect on concepts such as identity, otherness or the passage of time. Thus, the desire for death and rebirth is the declaration of intent of a transgressive and unclassifiable artist who denies himself and reaffirms himself more and more emphatically and immortal.
An essential artist on the contemporary scene, Anna Malagrida, has been working in photography and videography since the late 90s with impressive consistency. Malagrida addresses political issues with great poetic delicacy and subtly works the staging, the play of light and chiaroscuro, confusing photography and pictorial art in the same gesture.
Anna Malagrida expresses the personal representation of the city of Paris through her images: the globalized city, on its walls and facades, appears as a skin that bears the traces of the events and crises it is going through.
Exhibition from January 17th to March 5th, 2023 at La Filature, Mulhouse Tuesday to Sunday from 2pm to 6pm + show nights (La Filature will be closed to the public from February 12 to 26.)
For more information you can visit the La Filature website through this link:
On the occasion of the By Invitation art fair, organized by the Círculo Ecuestre de Barcelona, La Roca Village, in collaboration with the Senda andLab36 galleries and the artistMina Hamada, donates some sculptures by the artist Mina Hamada for exhibition and charity sale in favor of the Fundación Lucha contra las Infecciones.
Paseo Colorido, Mina Hamada para La Roca Village, 2022
The galleries LAB36 and Galeria Senda together with Mina Hamada joins through art to the solidarity project led by La Roca Village with the Fight Against Infections Foundation as part of its commitment and mission.
The sculptures by Mina Hamada, a Japanese artist based in Barcelona, are part of the project Paseo Colorido , which has been on display at La Roca Village since summer. As part of The Bicester Collection’s DO GOOD program, to which La Roca Village belongs, the amount from the sale of These 3 large-format pieces will go to the Fight Against Infectious Diseases Foundation, chaired by dr. Bonaventura Clotet.
Like last year, access will be by invitation only (contact the gallery) 📩 and a series of conferences will be held in parallel to the exhibition.
On January 12 at 7 pm Imma Prieto, director of Es Baluard, and Mateo Feijoo, curator of the El Archivo del Polvo project, will present LOVE SONG at Galeria SENDA
The exhibition is dedicated to the life and work of Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris (02.10.197 Long Beach CA.- 01.29.2013 Brooklyn, NY) whose music can be heard during the course of the exhibition courtesy of the artist’s legacy – with our thanks.
Del Rivero will present a selection of works taken from various projects carried out throughout his career that culminate in the concept of admiration for life and experience – leitmotiv and essence of the artist’s inspiration.
In the context of the last stage of the ”Dust Archive” (2001-2021), Love Song will include the 30 collages-assemblages that were presented in Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, built with pieces of painting rescued from his study of works destroyed during the 9/11 attack.
From “Letters from Home”, where the artist delves into the domestic with the kitchen table as a banner, the artist proposes a conceptual experience with kitchen towels-paintings from different years.
Elena also incorporates works related to the “Letters to the Mother” , another of her great projects since 1991, with elements that she has used constantly throughout her career such as needles, painting, embroidery and fabrics.
The exhibition is completed with ”Fragments of my Ruin”, a work in which all his ethical and aesthetic concerns of recent years come together in a large installation.
The artist Elena Del Rivero for Metal Magazine
With a photograph of Butch walking through the East Village in New York and taken by Elena in 2008, the exhibition will close along with others taken during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the Soho neighborhood. The images will accompany us throughout the visit as a reflection on the historical, the collective and the personal in the context of an immediate present.
Elena del Rivero has lived and worked in New York, USA, since 1991. She has had individual exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid); New Museum (New York), Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington D.C.); International Center of Photography (New York); The Drawing Center (New York); or the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid, among others.
El documental “BCN-BXL. Coderch-De Koninck. Más allá del tiempo”, de Morrosko Vila-San-Juan, que establece un diálogo entre la arquitectura racionalista del belga Louis Herman de Koninck y la del barcelonés José Antonio Coderch, participará en el próximoFestival BARQ (International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona) y en el Brussels Capital Film Festival.
Dos universos, dos formas de entender la luz, el tiempo y el espacio: Coderch y De Koninck. Ambos, arquitectos y diseñadores, trabajaron para la burguesía de su época y crearon una estética y un imaginario de la sociedad de consumo y la vida cotidiana que ha llegado hasta nuestros días. Aunque pertenecen a generaciones distintas, Coderch (1913-1984) y De Koninck (1896-1984), los dos han dejado huella y su obra se admira y estudia en la actualidad.
De Koninck está considerado el mejor arquitecto belga de entreguerras y Coderch despuntó en la España de la posguerra como el arquitecto de la modernidad. Sus obras se han revalorizado y reivindicado con el paso del tiempo. Ambos racionalistas, ambos analizaron y entendieron muy bien la sociedad en la que les tocó vivir y sus necesidades. Y ambos trascendieron con sus obras. José Antonio Coderch en Barcelona y la costa mediterránea y Louis Herman De Koninck en Bruselas y alrededores.
Esta pieza documental de Morrosko Vila-San-Juan ofrece el contexto a través de diversas filmaciones y entrevistas con arquitectos (como el belga Bruno Erpicum y el español Óscar Tusquets) y diversos propietarios de algunas de las casas de Coderch y De Koninck, que nos explican su historia y la experiencia de habitar una casa icónica.
El documental forma parte de un proyecto artístico y expositivo expuesto en Bruselas durante 2021 y 2022. La pintora Bea Sarriasy el cineasta Morrosko Vila-San-Juan llevan tiempo pintando y filmando arquitectura icónica. El proyecto se ha expuesto en el centro artístico de LaVallée (Bruselas), en la galería Martin’s Atelier y en el espacio Spain Arts & cien LAB in Belgium. En 2023 se expondrá en Madrid, coincidiendo con Arco, de la Mano de Lab36 (Galería Senda) y Bulthaub. La proyección en el BARQ Festival, dentro de la Sección Oficial, será el próximo miércoles 11 de mayo, a las 19’30 en los Cinemes Girona de Barcelona. Y el viernes 13, a las 18’30, se podrá ver enLAB36 (GALERÍA SENDA), en el marco de MODEL (Festival d’Arquitectura de Barcelona). Por último, el día 26 de mayo se proyectará en Bruselas, dentro del Brussels Capital Film Festival.
