Game Elements, Solo Exhibition by Roberto López Martín.
DDR Art Gallery Exhibition Program.
Solo Exhibition by Roberto López Martín, Elements of Play.
07.04.2025 - 09.05.2025.
The solo exhibition “Elementos de Juego” by the artist Roberto López Martín will take place at the DDR ART GALLERY at Encomienda 21 in Madrid (Spain) , from April 7 to May 9, 2025.
Roberto López Martín is an artist who, through his multidisciplinary work, attempts to question the lines of what is socially established as dissimilarity to the normal, regarding what is conceived as beauty or the grotesque.
To this end, López Martín uses the codes embedded in mass media images, always working with representations that can often be iconic and indisputably manipulated in a social consensus. Performance, video, photography, painting... all can be part of a collage of information, which serves to talk about these images and how they are degenerated and reinterpreted for a purpose: consumption.
In Game Elements highlights this concept by focusing on childhood, that first moment of socialization when children begin to establish an imaginary relationship with their toys. They express their emotions in these relationships, granting their dolls their own values and emotions. According to López Martín, this relationship is distorted when corporations become involved, establishing uses and forms of consumption for different toys, causing them to pre-format a way for children to relate to the world.
This is how the artist, through his work, draws us into a universe in which, starting from the grotesque, he creates a fascination with discovering the new form we are observing. This is something that, according to him, could be considered "a voyeurism toward the morbid."
Curated by the gallery itself, with a long history in national and international fairs and with a recently opened location in Madrid.
"Herein exposure, Continuation of the project Children's TV: The new Homo Videns reflects on the elements used in games from a young age And especially symbolic play, where assimilation is balanced by accommodation. In symbolic play, assimilation prevails in the child's relationship with the meaning of things and even in the very construction of what the thing signifies. In this way, the child not only assimilates reality but also incorporates it in order to relive, master, or compensate for it.
In the use of elements of more consumption media and networks where advertising takes on greater importance, at a time when the The use of mobile phones and digital elements, including AI, are the order of the day. This exhibition raises a series of questions - where is the border? and how can it be achieved? The industry serves to influence our daily lives and especially in that of our infants?"
Game elements.
Roberto López Martín.
Encomienda Street 21, 28012. Madrid (Spain)
Open to the public from April 7 to May 9, 2025, Tuesday to Friday from 12:00 to 19:00.
Opening Friday, April 11, 2025 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.