We announce the Contest and our participation in WE ARE FAIR 2017.
Contemporary Art Fair.
Dates : October 20-22, 2017
Opening : Friday, October 20, 2017, 6:00 p.m.
Venue : Vaults Room, Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid.
STAND B 1 D
Our concept, White: "the beginning / the foundation / the seed / latent / the word on the tip of the tongue / unheard / inaudible / odd / pregnant / null / ageless / the one buried with open eyes / innocent / promiscuous / the word / nameless / speechless." While these verses written by Octavio Paz in 1966 bear no direct relation to what you are about to see and experience, they also condense the uniqueness of this exhibition: a sort of laboratory of ambitious ideas in which we collectively rethink white, or rather, whites, their nuances, their symbolism and myths, all the concepts they may generate. Here, we want you to approach the beginning, the blank page, the space without a center, freedom and light, the invitation to be and, of course, nothingness, from which everything must be born.
DDR Art Gallery , an online gallery of contemporary art, is always open.
We attend art fairs where we can share the experience of creation with its main players, the artists.
PRIZE RULES:
To celebrate our participation in We Are Fair, we are launching this contest to win a work by Roberto López Martin. All our Instagram followers who share a photo of the DDR ART GALLERY B1D stand at WE ARE FAIR and share it on Instagram with the hashtag #iloveddrartgallery and mentioning @ddrartgallery are eligible to participate!
The winner will be the photo posted on Instagram with the most likes by 10:00 AM GMT+1 on October 31, 2017. We will announce the winner on November 1st on our DDR ART GALLERYFacebook and Twitter accounts. In the event of a tie, the winner will be the Instagrammer with the longest follower count.
Work: Play With Them , by Roberto López Martín
Play with Them! Give Them a Stuffed Animal, Too.
Limited series, signed and serialized in 30 copies.
ONE copy, serial number 3/30, is being raffled off.
Technique: Pigmented ink printing on 300 gr laid paper.
Measurements: 30x22 cm.
On Saturday, October 21st at 6:00 PM, Raúl Casassola will perform a live performance of one of his works.
That art that persists, that questions and questions, and sometimes answers, like Annita Klimt 's pieces, where subtlety is embellished and poeticized, and where every story can begin, however each person wishes, with a few words, with the right word, with an insistent cut and an image that reclaims the heritage of classic French cinema. Something more than daydreams.
Work: , by Annita Klimt
Something more than sharing thoughts. This poetic quality also appears in Evangelina Esparza 's work, in the emotions hidden in the furniture, in the drawer of the nightstand, where we often keep our most intimate possessions, what makes us vulnerable, perhaps, something so inherent to white and light: purity or innocence, the memory of what we've already experienced.
Work: Adonis Annua , by Evangeliza Esparza
But poetry is free and art never stops trying to be so, hence it becomes the imposing work of David Heras Verde , reflections of a coming and going, of transience and not of destiny, where Duchamp's maxim is fulfilled: "A painting that does not make an impact is not worth it."
Work: White Light, White Heat , by David Heras Verde.
Roberto López Martín also talks to us about games with his avatars, Homo videns : toys distorted by the schizophrenic logic that guides and absorbs us, where the screen, the virtual, and solitude matter more than friends, real bikes, or imagination. As McLuhan said, "the medium is the message."
Work: Avatar Cowboy , by Roberto López Martín.
We all often want to escape from that suffocating logic, from our small reality, and we seek asylum in fiction, as exemplified by the work of David Delgado Ruiz. Through his renowned documentary photography, he invites us into his fictional reality, invented from the truth, and leads us to his disturbing and inspiring terrain, but without really knowing where we are walking. This is a decontextualization of time and space, a deconstruction of the reality we observe. Are we walking through a utopia or a dystopia? Our gaze is the window through which we view time, our emotions are those that interpret that reality.
Work: The Jedish, New York Betches Mobile Call, by David Delgado Ruiz.
What remains to be discovered is Raúl Casassola , a renowned artist linked to urban art who presents beautiful and sensitive work: portraits in which precision, good framing, and just the right shading are ultimately overcome by the expressions on the subjects' faces, by the paint stains, the draftsman's attempts, or the exposed support, spaces where matter becomes flesh. His work is open, with an intentional appearance of being "half-finished"—or not—with its lashings of white; in short, and as with the rest of the pieces, this exhibition is completely open, to bring us together, and in white, so that we can all contribute our own visions and interpretations.
Work: Crypticus Sciencia – Melancholy - , by Raul Casassola.
Remember, come see us and enter our contest on Instagram with the hashtag #iloveddrartgallery. Participate in our contest and win an original, serialized, and signed work of art by Roberto López Martin for your art collection.
On Saturday, October 21st at 6:00 PM, Raul Casassola will perform a live performance of one of his works. Enjoy his creation live.
We are waiting for you.
Text and Curatorship: Sara Zambrana & DDR ART GALLERY