stamp 30th contemporary art fair, Stand 5D28.
We announce our participation in Estampa, the international contemporary art fair, celebrating its 30th anniversary.
IFEMA
From October 13-16, 2022.
Stand 5D28.
DDR ART GALLERY.
Our proposal for Estampa 2022 is based on a dialogue between the works of four artists, with the human figure and its interaction with form and space as the backbone of the proposal.
Four artistic disciplines allow us to offer a reflection to the viewer, where Virginia Rivas 's informalist painting reveals the artist's work, the material that defines her as an artist, which is precisely painting. From there, she explores form and matter through abstraction and gesture in search of a unique palette in which textures, naive strokes, and brief texts emerge, moving between chance and intention.
To delve into human behavior through the artist's own experiences as a guideline for investigating the individual-environment connection and creating a plural, contemporary sociological discourse that explores the relationship between the work, the viewer, and the space.
Continuing with painting, Venezuelan Roger Sanguino presents the work he has been developing in recent years, moving from classical sculpture to painting. This work is marked by a discourse that references the human being, the importance of portraiture, bodily expression, and urban space.
As for the formalization of the work, the technical aspect lies in what has been fundamental in the final construction of the work: Metal and its possibilities.
Through the use of rods and piano wires, and later bolts and nets, all these possibilities of steel gave rise to a dialogue between painting and sculpture, generating a bridge between both disciplines through conceptual and formal foundations.
With the body and the portrait as its axes, this crossroads begins where the use of mixed techniques determines the structure of the work.
Various traces appear on the plane and the volume; stains and primordial lines that give shape to the character, along with a lattice that floats above it like a grid, giving rise to a metallic framework that references the urban or everyday landscape. This framework, in turn, helps organize structures, defining limits and content from a geometric perspective that also includes the void.
With all this intervention carried out on the portraits, a process begins that leads to the disruption of concepts of identity, transforming them into altered, modified concepts, giving rise to new identities.
From his ongoing analysis of painting and sculpture, Roberto López Martín 's work warns us of the impoverishment of understanding and the loss of the capacity for abstraction. Both are caused by the primacy of the image generated by television and the internet, and all their applications, over the written word.
The toy is an essential concept and one in which it takes on its maximum value in the context of human development.
It is through toys that children explore, discover, learn, and interact with multiple objects and problems that form an important part of their proper development as individuals.
The child, behind the created mask of false childhood, becomes a series, a catalog reference, a kind of avatar, or a completely distorted graphic representation associated with a user for future identification in their demand. They position themselves behind the toy-product, acquiring those values, enhancing emotional anesthesia and following the pattern of what we call social media.
All this leads us to the need to document reality itself, in the photography of David Delgado Ruiz , who analyses and preserves contemporary reality in his images, telling stories about how time and space generate a context in social relations between human beings and the hostile environment that surrounds them, the city understood as present, past and future.
It's not just about documenting reality, but also about evoking imaginary landscapes, common places to turn to in these uncertain times where the only thing that doesn't last is the constant change of reality through which we travel, with hardly any time to stop, pause, look, or, much less, look back.
ARTISTS.
- Roger Sanguino - Venezuela.
- David Delgado Ruiz - Spain.
- Virginia Rivas - Spain.
- Roberto López Martín - Spain.
For more information, please email us at customers@ddrartgallery.com
DDR ART GALLERY.
