Todas las fiestas del mañana
Solo show by Irene Anguita
Todas las fiestas del mañana
Solo show by Irene Anguita
1 July - 29 July 2021
The work of Irene Anguita (Cordoba, 1997) is a reflection of her own time, paintings that bear witness to what is happening to us everyday. In this series presented, 'Todas las fiestas del mañana' and 'Feed' (2020), we observe the artist's interest in the relationship between the technological and the physical, a relationship on which she focuses her research.
How are we influenced by the amount of images we consume every day? And how can this influence contemporary artistic practice? We live in an eminently visual society in which we are bombarded with hundreds of images every day, making us incapable of processing this information and at the same time becoming insensitive to it. Irene's work arises as a vindication against the subjugation of images in which we live, as an exercise that asks us to pause and reflect on what we are observing, but also under a simple and casual gaze. The motivation for this body of work is precisely the plastic characteristics of these images. The work is born as a translation of the artificial screen light and its dynamism to the pictorial medium - a reflection about the union between new technologies and tradition in painting. We observe how these canvases emerge from a much more formal concern and evolve towards a narrative interest, in which materiality itself gains prominence.
The result is a work that speaks about its context, a tremendously lively painting that makes use of the universal theme of the party, but from a personal and intimate language. A work that reminds us of the importance of painting as a form of language intrinsic to the human being, as a space in which we can talk about the multiplicity of the world in another way. Due to this body of work shown by Irene, we are more aware that painting can never die, and if it does, it will rise again, in an act that is inherent to our humanity, as it is a way of assimilating to the world in which we live.
How are we influenced by the amount of images we consume every day? And how can this influence contemporary artistic practice? We live in an eminently visual society in which we are bombarded with hundreds of images every day, making us incapable of processing this information and at the same time becoming insensitive to it. Irene's work arises as a vindication against the subjugation of images in which we live, as an exercise that asks us to pause and reflect on what we are observing, but also under a simple and casual gaze. The motivation for this body of work is precisely the plastic characteristics of these images. The work is born as a translation of the artificial screen light and its dynamism to the pictorial medium - a reflection about the union between new technologies and tradition in painting. We observe how these canvases emerge from a much more formal concern and evolve towards a narrative interest, in which materiality itself gains prominence.
The result is a work that speaks about its context, a tremendously lively painting that makes use of the universal theme of the party, but from a personal and intimate language. A work that reminds us of the importance of painting as a form of language intrinsic to the human being, as a space in which we can talk about the multiplicity of the world in another way. Due to this body of work shown by Irene, we are more aware that painting can never die, and if it does, it will rise again, in an act that is inherent to our humanity, as it is a way of assimilating to the world in which we live.
