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On Friday 20th of November from 5pm to 9pm, Domingo Sanchez Blanco will present his exhibition, “the intruder does not have freedom because he does not know the places”. His exhibition highlights the cultural relation between Ireland and Spain, in which conversation is conceived as an art work in itself.
The context of the exhibition is related to the well-known work of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Through his conversations with 8 figures of Spanish culture, links are developed between old and modern concepts: “going deeper into the reality of feelings and the most essential part of the human being, it is the familiar thing”.
The visual work will be accompanied by a lecture from the international curator Fernando Castro Florez, a musical selection of a geologist DJ (as an erratic rock), and some food including Spanish wine and olive oil.
This project is a proposal of “El Gallo” contemporary art space(Salamanca, Spain) and Artdiversion (Dublin) in collaboration with SEACEX (la Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior) www.seacex.es, La Junta de Castilla y León (Spain), IPCE (Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España), and El Museo de arte moderno de Valencia (IVAM).
Please confirm attendance and number of people to:
Meritxell Reves: artdiversion[at]gmail.com
Domingo Sánchez Blanco (Salamanca 1955)
His work has included a bit of everything: The Bengala tiger in the Museum of “Bellas Artes” Oviedo, together with the death director of fear behind the windows(Spain), the ring fight against Charles Juhasz in the Puerto Rico Art Museum (Puerto Rico), the attendance to Leonardo Morales in Santo Domingo, when that tiny artist, in the middle of his own demolition, said a memorable sentence: (“ they break my mother, I get off in Cancún”)(Santo Domingo, México), the hot kiss of the trio on top of the packaging in the Nuoro Museum(Cerdeña), the heroic visit to Klossowski to ask him for his ashes in a radicalization of the hospitality rules,(París),the bachata world persecution in the people from Madrid exile (Spain, Santo Domingo), the daily documents with the heavy weight champion Teófilo Stevenson (Cuba, Italia), the ceremony about Garrincha (Brasil, in a “ buñuelesca” perversion proposition of the original version “the exterminator angel”(Spain), one dinner- ceremony in the Bienal of Habana (Cuba)….and many other unexpected events that read as a consistent story of peculiarities.
Artists shown in the exhibition conversations
Juan Hidalgo:
Embodying the vanguard spirit, Juan Hidalgo is pure creativity, without limits. He can be sometimes subtle, other times brutal, but always transgressing. His zeal is to erase the limits and to enlarge the boundaries of creation. He is the first Spanish composer to be invited to the mythical festival of Darmstad, the first one to create an electro-acoustic composition, the founder of ZAJ and the creator of the etcetera.
Javier Utray:
He was part of a new artistic culture that reacts against the Bauhaus dictatorship. As an artist, he takes on the message of Venturini, illustrating the possibility of reutilizing classic styles in current structures, which has been referred to as the “post-modern” movement.
Isidoro Valcarcel Medina:
Key figure in the so called “conceptual art” in Spain. Since the seventies, his work questions the idea of masterpiece and its aesthetic dimension. He has experimented with all sorts of media: poetry, music, film, amongst others.
Fernando Arrabal:
Versatile, audacious, controversial, nonconformist with Franco’s politics and society, he is one of the most represented Spanish Authors in the world. His interest in theatre appeared in his youth, achieving the Barcelona award for “Los chicos del triciclo” at the age of 31, he established his home in Paris and began his frenetic theatrical production, starting with small experimental works, later creating the “panic” movement (together with Jodorowski and Topol), he earned his reputation when the Comedie Française played his “Torre de Babel”. Success and scandal accompany him through his career, marked by extravagance and compromise.
Jess Franco:
A great fan of jazz, he began his cinematographic career as a composer. His muse, Lina Romay, was always present in all of his work. His trajectory covers the most varied genres, with the constant outstanding content of sex and terror, up to the point that the Catholic Church declared him damaging.
Victor Mira:
He was a Spanish poet, painter and sculptor, His work was inspired by the aesthetics expressionism and was characterized by having a great artistic density and by the constant presence of symbols and allegories dealing with death.
Lugan:
He is unanimously recognized as the indisputable pioneer in sound sculpture in Spain. He is a difficult artist to classify and his work is full of historic vanguard spirit, above all, constructivism and Dadaism, which are the movements that have most influenced his work.
Carlos Oroza:
He is a poet. During sunny mornings, his transparency and spoken word amble in the streets of Vigo, attentive to the voice and rhythm that they give off.
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