El Primero
Group show by Guillermo Martín Bermejo, Juan de Sande, María López Díez, Silvia Olabarría, Pepe Domínguez, Abel García, Juan Isaac Silva, Ismael Cervantes, Zac Reyes
El Primero
Group show by Guillermo Martín Bermejo, Juan de Sande, María López Díez, Silvia Olabarría, Pepe Domínguez, Abel García, Juan Isaac Silva, Ismael Cervantes, Zac Reyes
29 January - 12 March 2021
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Juan de Sande
The first stage of el Primero will open on January 29th, 2021 with Silvia Olabarría and María López Díez.
The second stage will open on February 12th, 2021 with Juan de Sande and Guillermo Martín Bermejo.
For this first project in el Chico, we want to lay the foundations of what we believe is relevant to understand the process of the cultural fabric in Madrid –and probably in Spain. The first project will be built throughout its duration, crossed by different disciplines and modes of dissemination and exhibition.
We are inviting artists and academics that we consider relevant to understand the cultural processes of our contemporary history: Silvia Olabarría (Bilbao, 1974), Juan de Sande (Madrid, 1964), Guillermo Martín Bermejo (Madrid, 1971) and María López Díez. These artists in each of their disciplines, Silvia -painting-, Juan -photography- and Guillermo -drawing-, have pushed their practices on several occasions to the edge of the unknown, of the uncomfortable and not very commercial, encouraged by an uncommon intellectual impetus and a more global vision. The extension of their careers makes their voice valid to be used as a reference not only for their generation but also for those to come. On her side, María (PhD in Art History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and professor at the New York University NYU in Madrid) has dedicated her career to actively research art in different variants, from architecture to design.
This first project will build itself and will be accumulative. Each couple (Silvia and María, Juan and Guillermo,) will hold open conversations about the art circuit in Madrid and the Academy in Spain. Each couple will select a work by each other to be exhibited at the space; the conversations will be recorded and will be part of the el Chico podcast archive. Between each couple there will be a period of two weeks in which the works will be exhibited, and the recorded conversation can be heard at el Chico. During each stage, we will carry out both face-to-face and online activities that will encourage reflection on the topics of the conversations. The intention is that the first guests later choose other interlocutors to continue the construction of the project-exhibition for a period that can be extended in time if required.
We are interested in knowing what these artists and thinkers would change and/or reinforce -present and past- so that the construction of the cultural tissue becomes more sustainable. We understand that this tissue is complex in its layers and not only depends on public and private institutions. The Academy, museums, private institutions, galleries and in equal measure, artists, have a responsibility to these dynamics that must begin to be more reciprocal. el Chico's intentions are focused on unraveling the mechanics of our cultural system to expose and discuss them from our particularity and heritage as a society.
We are inviting artists and academics that we consider relevant to understand the cultural processes of our contemporary history: Silvia Olabarría (Bilbao, 1974), Juan de Sande (Madrid, 1964), Guillermo Martín Bermejo (Madrid, 1971) and María López Díez. These artists in each of their disciplines, Silvia -painting-, Juan -photography- and Guillermo -drawing-, have pushed their practices on several occasions to the edge of the unknown, of the uncomfortable and not very commercial, encouraged by an uncommon intellectual impetus and a more global vision. The extension of their careers makes their voice valid to be used as a reference not only for their generation but also for those to come. On her side, María (PhD in Art History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and professor at the New York University NYU in Madrid) has dedicated her career to actively research art in different variants, from architecture to design.
This first project will build itself and will be accumulative. Each couple (Silvia and María, Juan and Guillermo,) will hold open conversations about the art circuit in Madrid and the Academy in Spain. Each couple will select a work by each other to be exhibited at the space; the conversations will be recorded and will be part of the el Chico podcast archive. Between each couple there will be a period of two weeks in which the works will be exhibited, and the recorded conversation can be heard at el Chico. During each stage, we will carry out both face-to-face and online activities that will encourage reflection on the topics of the conversations. The intention is that the first guests later choose other interlocutors to continue the construction of the project-exhibition for a period that can be extended in time if required.
We are interested in knowing what these artists and thinkers would change and/or reinforce -present and past- so that the construction of the cultural tissue becomes more sustainable. We understand that this tissue is complex in its layers and not only depends on public and private institutions. The Academy, museums, private institutions, galleries and in equal measure, artists, have a responsibility to these dynamics that must begin to be more reciprocal. el Chico's intentions are focused on unraveling the mechanics of our cultural system to expose and discuss them from our particularity and heritage as a society.
