Moda y arte en la ciudad condal with GINO RUBERT

La llegada del otoño a Barcelona siempre trae consigo un aire de vanguardia, creatividad y tendencia. Como cada año por estas fechas, la ciudad se prepara para vivir uno de los eventos más esperados en el ámbito de la moda: la 080 Barcelona Fashion Week, que se celebrará del 14 al 17 de octubre. La semana de la moda catalana no solo destaca por ser una plataforma clave para diseñadores emergentes y consagrados, sino también por su capacidad de conectar la moda con otras disciplinas artísticas.

Este evento coincide con dos exposiciones que nos invitan a explorar el mundo de la moda desde dos perspectivas únicas. 

“Cariàtides” de Gino Rubert en galeria SENDA: El arte de la indumentaria

La primera parada artística relacionada con la 080 Fashion Week es la exposición “Cariàtides” del pintor Gino Rubert, expuesta en la galeria SENDA. Rubert es conocido por su capacidad de explorar las emociones humanas a través de figuras que rozan lo surrealista. En esta ocasión, su enfoque pone especial atención en un aspecto fundamental del universo de la moda: la construcción de las prendas.

En “Cariàtides“, Rubert juega con texturas, pliegues, alfileres sobre el lienzo e, incluso, piezas de joyería, creando una conexión simbólica con el proceso artesanal de confeccionar ropa. A través de sus obras, se percibe cómo el pintor utiliza la tela como un material moldeable, donde cada pliegue y cada costura se vuelven elementos cruciales para la construcción de la figura femenina. Este acto de construir prendas en el lienzo refleja el minucioso trabajo de los diseñadores de moda y su atención al detalle en la creación de piezas que son tanto artísticas como funcionales.

Así como un modista crea prendas que visten cuerpos, Rubert viste sus figuras femeninas de “Cariàtides” a través de su pincel, utilizando los materiales como metáfora de la conexión entre el arte pictórico y el arte del vestir.

“Into the river” (2024). 54 x 41 cm

“La Tempesta” (2024). 73 x 65 cm. Detalle

“Dos + Uno. 1984/2024” de José Manuel Ferrater en LAB 36: El tiempo y la moda a través de la fotografía

En LAB 36, otra exposición complementa el espíritu de la 080 Barcelona Fashion Week, pero desde una perspectiva fotográfica. José Manuel Ferrater, afamado fotógrafo de moda, presenta “Dos + Uno. 1984/2024”, una retrospectiva que ofrece un fascinante diálogo visual entre diferentes épocas de su carrera.

La muestra consiste en una contraposición de imágenes icónicas de 1984 y sus antagónicas tomadas en la actualidad, permitiendo al espectador viajar a través del tiempo y observar cómo han evolucionado tanto la moda como la fotografía misma. Ferrater, conocido por su capacidad de capturar la esencia del mundo de la moda con su lente, nos ofrece una reflexión sobre los cambios estilísticos y culturales a lo largo de los años.

A través de su obra, vemos cómo los ideales de belleza, los estilos y las tendencias han mutado con el paso de las décadas, pero también cómo algunos elementos perduran. La moda se presenta no solo como una forma de expresión personal, sino también como un reflejo de los tiempos que vivimos. La exposición es, en esencia, un diálogo entre el pasado y el presente, entre la nostalgia de las épocas doradas de la moda y la constante innovación del mundo contemporáneo.

Vista de sala. “Dos + Uno. 1984/2024”

El diálogo entre moda y arte: Un encuentro inevitable

Ambas exposiciones, en su relación con la moda, encuentran un terreno común: la noción de la moda como arte en sí misma. Rubert y Ferrater, desde sus respectivas disciplinas, exploran y celebran la moda como un medio para expresar y desafiar convenciones. Mientras que Rubert se enfoca en la construcción meticulosa de prendas como un acto artístico y escultórico, Ferrater documenta la moda en su contexto sociocultural, inmortalizando momentos y tendencias que han definido épocas.

Este diálogo entre arte y moda se vuelve aún más relevante en el contexto de la 080 Barcelona Fashion Week, un evento que tradicionalmente ha buscado desafiar las barreras entre disciplinas. En un momento en que la moda se enfrenta a una constante demanda de innovación y sostenibilidad, las exposiciones de Rubert y Ferrater nos recuerdan que la moda no es solo tendencia, sino también un arte profundamente ligado a la expresión creativa.

Galeria SENDA presents Gino Rubert for SWAB art fair in Barcelona

From SENDA Gallery we present a Gino Rubert  in this year’s edition of the fair SWAB. A single show starring the artist’s surprising works: recent paintings that incorporate light and sound. Rubert described his pictorial technique in an interview with Gisela Chillida in 2015:

I feel satisfied when the images finally suggest more than narrate. […] I love that people want to touch my paintings to understand what they are seeing, to create the illusion of space and action where there is neither one thing nor the other. Hence the taste for using the real objects you speak of [photographs, fabrics, plastics, hair, etc.].”

With 14 editions behind it, the SWAB fair faces 2022 maintaining its mission of providing projection to the spaces and disciplines that are charting the course of the art scene in the coming years. 
 

The edition will take place from October 6 to 9, 2022.
Visit us at Stand 25.

SWAB chooses Barcelona for its free spirit and cosmopolitan character. Holding the fair in this city means generating a unique platform for international exchange and dialogue, a meeting between cultures united by art and twinned under the blue Mediterranean sky. 

For all these reasons, SWAB is located in a representative place in the city, in front of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, at the foot of the Font Màgica, and guarded by the Venetian Towers of Plaza España: the Italian Pavilion of the Fira de Barcelona.

Booth installation view for SWAB 2022

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Galeria SENDA at Art Brussels 2022

28.04 – 01.05.22, Tour & Taxis | Booth A50

With great excitement and enthusiasm, this year we are pleased to announce the twentieth participation of Galeria SENDA in the prestigious contemporary art fair Art Brussels, which will take place from April 28th to May 1st, 2022. For this special edition, we have carefully prepared a selection of artists that represent the plastic, sculptural and compositional quality of a small sample of the talent of those who are part of the SENDA family.

In our stand at Art Brussels you will find works by renowned artists exhibited at SENDA such as Jaume Plensa and his conceptual brutality represented in “Who Are You? V”; Peter Halley and his lively use of colors in his large geometric paintings; Yago Hortal and the grandeur of his canvases such as “Z53”; Stephan Balkenhol with his huge sculptural figures; Iran do Espírito Santo and his audacious way of turning contradiction into a tangible thing as with his sculpture “Black Light”; Glenda León with her reinterpretation of the lunar cycle in “Listening to the Moon”; Túlio Pinto and his sculptures created from the fusion of materials; Sandra Vásquez de la Horra with her universe of fantastic figures that invite reflection on incendiary themes of the society in which we live; Gino Rubert with his farewells and reunions charged with symbolism; Xavi Bou and the wonderful chrono-photographic work captured in “Ornithographies“; Anthony Goicolea with his portraits where he explores human identity related to social issues such as migration; Donald Sultan and the reinvention of still lifes with works such as “Winter Mimosa Jan 28”; or the evocative photographs of Jordi Bernadó such as “New York (OS 276. 2)”. All this and much more is what anyone who attends the Art Brussels Week and passes by the stand A50 of Galeria SENDA will be able to find.

This amalgam of artistic projects demonstrates the solid gallery proposal of SENDA, betting on the dissemination of both national and international art. Likewise, the variety of techniques and disciplines is key to understand the idiosyncrasy of our gallery. Without the presence of this generous amount of projects so different from each other, fairs like Art Brussels would not make sense. For all this, if after getting to know the wide range of artists that will accompany SENDA in Brussels, you want to live an immersive experience and immerse yourself in the busy and vivid world of the fairs, you can find us at stand A50, in the Tour & Taxis building of the Belgian capital.

Obra abstracta d'uns peus que obren un portal de colors
Representació de la fase lunar
Pintura abstracta amb pinzellades rosades i ataronjades sobre fons negre

Portal, 2022
Sandra VÁSQUEZ DE LA HORRA
Grafit, watercolour and gouache on wax-plated paper
76 × 56 cm

Escuchando la Luna, 2020
Glenda LEÓN
Cow’s skin and wood
50 × 200 × 10 cm

Z51, 2022
Yago HORTAL
Acrylic in cloth
230 × 190 cm

Imatge d'un estand de fira amb pintures i escultures d'art contemporani

Booth A50 – Galeria SENDA

Galeria SENDA at Art Brussels 2021

03.06 – 06.06.21, Tour & Taxis

Black, white and red abstract polka dot painting

Donald Sultan. Autumn Mimosa (Feb, 2018)
Enamel, latex, graphite and tar on masonite. 122 x 244 cm

From June 3rd to 6th, Galeria SENDA presents a group exhibition at Art Brussels, one of the most renowned contemporary art fairs in Europe and an unmissable event on the international art calendar. Art Brussels is the ideal opportunity to discover the artistic and cultural richness of the art and cultural scene of the European capital, attracting a considerable number of collectors, curators, gallery owners, art professionals and art lovers from all over the world. Each year, the fair welcomes around 25,000 visitors to the emblematic Tour & Taxis building in the heart of the Belgian capital.

Instead of the usual format, this year the Belgian fair will offer a new edition: the Art Brussels week will feature Viewing Rooms, i.e. online exhibitions, from June 2nd to 14th and will also present physical gallery tours from June 3rd to 6th. For those unfamiliar with the term “viewing room,” this is a digital system that allows viewers to explore and examine works of art, either through high-quality images, videos or detailed descriptions. These viewing rooms are often used at art fairs and galleries as a way to show works of art to those who cannot physically attend the place where the works are exhibited. Through the “viewing rooms” visitors can, apart from appreciating the pieces, obtain information about them and the artists and even contact the gallery to make inquiries or purchases. All you need is an Internet connection and a great desire to enter into this extrasensory experience of online visits.

Painting of a racialized person lying on an orange float floating in dark water

Anthony Goicolea. Inflatable Pieta.
Oil on raw linen canvas. 90 x 130 cm

This year, for the physical gallery tour, SENDA invites the public to visit our current exhibition: “Day and night: New paintings and drawings” by Donald Sultan. Sultan is a contemporary painter, sculptor and printmaker known for his large-scale paintings, which explore the dichotomies between beauty and rudeness and realism and abstraction through the construction of a particular imaginary rich in color and form. With the fusion of techniques and materials, Sultan manages to build works that dance between the representation of images directly recognizable in the collective imagination and the purest abstraction. A great example of this mix of concepts is his ability to reinvent a technique as old as still life, using images of lemons, poppies, fruits, flowers and everyday objects, which give a breath of fresh air to the grandeur of his compositions.

The online exhibition continues to present our selected artists in the Viewing Room so that the shows can reach many more people. The artists chosen to represent our gallery in Brussels are Peter Halley, Jaume Plensa, Yago Hortal, Anthony Goicolea, Jordi Bernadó, Oleg Dou, Glenda León, Stephan Balkenhol, Gino Rubert and Evru Zush. The exhibition includes painting, photography, sculpture and drawings to create a constellation of works representing multiple techniques and artistic expressions. The wide variety of artistic proposals for this art week in Brussels aims to extol the most significant attributes of our gallery, advocating a brutal combination that perfectly represents the exquisiteness of the contemporary art that SENDA is committed to exhibit.

Do not miss this unique artistic encounter where works from different corners of the world converge for a few days in Brussels to be appreciated by a wide range of attendees and art lovers, in a unique cultural experience.