Adentro/Afuera
Group show by Alejandro Manzano, Clara Moreno Cela, Fran Sabariego, Gil Gijón, Irene Anguita, Lucas Marcos Barquilla, Marcos Tapia González, Nerea Rodríguez Fernández
Adentro/Afuera
Group show by Alejandro Manzano, Clara Moreno Cela, Fran Sabariego, Gil Gijón, Irene Anguita, Lucas Marcos Barquilla, Marcos Tapia González, Nerea Rodríguez Fernández
20 April - 14 May 2021
We deeply thank the support of Margarita Gonzlález
Adentro/Afuera is the first exhibition of Fine Arts graduates from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid held at El Chico. This exhibition is a selection of works by these students in the "in-between" that is the end of formal training and the beginning of self-exploration of the artistic in solitary. This exhibition, conceived to be held every year, can be seen as one of the possible thematic areas of the concerns and interests of a generation. Even so, from this exhibition it is intended to understand the "generational" concept in a broader sense than its temporal and chronological limits, thinking of generation as a shared vital stage or situation. In this case, a period as marked in learning as the university, and taking the first steps towards the professionalization of artistic work, has just ended.
Among the themes present in this exhibition, we could highlight the everyday life represented from a very intuitive point of view, as reflected in the pictorial work of Irene Anguita, with genre scenes both from the historical tradition and from her own reality, capturing night and festive moments. This genre is also used by Clara Moreno Cela, who in her two pieces explores the tension between figuration and abstraction through drawing, with a fairly everyday theme, almost anodyne, but with a playful point: 'Mis amigas las palomas.'
The experiences of a festive atmosphere and the night are also the scenario of Marcos Tapia's works, although in this case, the memories have less weight, and abstraction prevails in pursuit of the exploration of the pictorial medium itself and representation. Thus, his gesture becomes an allegory of the urban, the subculture and the popular. In this path that involves rethinking the motifs and iconography that make up one's own identity, we find the drawings of Fran Sabariego, in which in this case, he uses collage and mixed media to build links in the autobiographical exploration of his imagination.
In other works of this selection, memory is studied in a completely opposite way—in this case from a more reflective and intimate figuration—by Gil Gijón, who makes dustographies of photographic memories. Gil obtains the dust he uses in each work from places directly related to representation, such as the homes of the characters he later portrays. In his exercise, in addition to his own sentimental vision, he investigates the material's own capacities as a container of meanings; the confrontation between his memory and that of the dust itself, that is, of life and the places it has occupied.
The work of Alejandro Manzano, who captures, among others, nocturnal moments towards reverie, is at the crossroads of the most intimate space of everyday life. In this case, the drawings of his booklet reflect the different variations of a language of very immediate representation, crossing the limits of innocence and the oneiric. The interest in intimacy can also be seen in the work of Nerea Rodriguez, who focuses her work on the study of the home from the representation and architectural analysis with a very refined geometric abstraction achieved thanks to techniques such as embossing.
Lastly, time is another of the themes present in this selection; in this case, time is understood as the rhythm determined by work, productivity and routine, the mechanical and the productive of the artistic. Thus, the work of Lucas Marcos Barquilla studies the artistic act itself, abstracting his most common work technique, ceramics, to dynamics and production patterns. In this case, he exhibits as an archeology of the technique ten pieces worked from the performative to try to reflect on the meaning of artistic work itself, and at the same time, to show the limits of work at a stage in which being in a 'in-between,' its definition is completely indeterminate.
Among the themes present in this exhibition, we could highlight the everyday life represented from a very intuitive point of view, as reflected in the pictorial work of Irene Anguita, with genre scenes both from the historical tradition and from her own reality, capturing night and festive moments. This genre is also used by Clara Moreno Cela, who in her two pieces explores the tension between figuration and abstraction through drawing, with a fairly everyday theme, almost anodyne, but with a playful point: 'Mis amigas las palomas.'
The experiences of a festive atmosphere and the night are also the scenario of Marcos Tapia's works, although in this case, the memories have less weight, and abstraction prevails in pursuit of the exploration of the pictorial medium itself and representation. Thus, his gesture becomes an allegory of the urban, the subculture and the popular. In this path that involves rethinking the motifs and iconography that make up one's own identity, we find the drawings of Fran Sabariego, in which in this case, he uses collage and mixed media to build links in the autobiographical exploration of his imagination.
In other works of this selection, memory is studied in a completely opposite way—in this case from a more reflective and intimate figuration—by Gil Gijón, who makes dustographies of photographic memories. Gil obtains the dust he uses in each work from places directly related to representation, such as the homes of the characters he later portrays. In his exercise, in addition to his own sentimental vision, he investigates the material's own capacities as a container of meanings; the confrontation between his memory and that of the dust itself, that is, of life and the places it has occupied.
The work of Alejandro Manzano, who captures, among others, nocturnal moments towards reverie, is at the crossroads of the most intimate space of everyday life. In this case, the drawings of his booklet reflect the different variations of a language of very immediate representation, crossing the limits of innocence and the oneiric. The interest in intimacy can also be seen in the work of Nerea Rodriguez, who focuses her work on the study of the home from the representation and architectural analysis with a very refined geometric abstraction achieved thanks to techniques such as embossing.
Lastly, time is another of the themes present in this selection; in this case, time is understood as the rhythm determined by work, productivity and routine, the mechanical and the productive of the artistic. Thus, the work of Lucas Marcos Barquilla studies the artistic act itself, abstracting his most common work technique, ceramics, to dynamics and production patterns. In this case, he exhibits as an archeology of the technique ten pieces worked from the performative to try to reflect on the meaning of artistic work itself, and at the same time, to show the limits of work at a stage in which being in a 'in-between,' its definition is completely indeterminate.
As part of Adentro/Afuera, we have invited professionals to chat about the delicate and important transition between leaving the Academy and starting a path as an artist.
HERRAMIENTAS PARA SOBREVIVIR CREANDO
Teresa Solar
27 April 2021
LA ACADEMIA AL REVÉS
William Mackinnon
29 April 2021
ACERCARSE A LAS GALERÍAS
Inés López-Quesada, Silvia Ortiz
6 March 2021
