See you in Lisbon!! DDR ART GALLLERY participates in the JustLx 2022 Fair

DDR ART GALLERY [ STAND A3 ] will participate in Justlx from May 19-22, 2022.

At DDR Art Gallery, we approach contemporary art through contact between the collector
and the artist, with our gallery as a unifying and managing element, combining assistance to
Contemporary Art Fairs with online sales at national and international level, with a
speech of analysis and criticism of the reality of the present time.

From this perspective, our proposal for JustLx Lisbon is based on dialogue between the
Works by five artists, with the human figure and its interaction with form and space as the axis
backbone of the proposal.

There are five artistic disciplines that allow us to pose a reflection to the spectator, where
Virginia Rivas's informalist painting shows the artist's work, the material that
manages to define him as an artist, which is precisely what painting is. From there, the form is investigated
and the matter through abstraction and gesture in search of a palette of its own 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
to investigate the individual-environment link and create a sociological, plural and
contemporary where the relationship between the work, the spectator and the space is explored.
Continuing with painting, the Argentine Evangelina Esparza presents the work that is
focuses on drawing and painting of the female figure and birds.

“Birds pass through us in silent flight,” Rainer Maria Rilke.

Birds, or winged beings, are a symbol of aerial translation and the relationship between the
heaven and earth to transit between both worlds.

Its designation in Greek was translated as “omen” or “heavenly message.”

In ancient Rome, augurs observed birds and interpreted the celestial signs that
They could transmit, from which comes the word auspice, auspex is "the one who looks at the birds."
The bird is the symbol of the soul for many civilizations throughout history. From San
Juan de la Cruz in Castilian mystical literature to the Persian symbolism of Farid al Din Attaren his
well-known work The Language of Birds, the soul flies in search of spiritual ecstasy,
encounter with the divine.

This artist based in Spain of Argentine origin seeks to capture the immediacy of an instant,
Capture the beauty that swings between the contemplative and the transformative, like a symbiosis
between the real and the ideal, in order to slow down time to retain it in an image.
Evangelina addresses the genre of portraiture in her process, alluding to the indeterminacy of the
human essence.

The use of the bird in his drawings and paintings speaks to us of the superego and the precondition
to achieve the ability to move from one existential evolutionary state to a higher one.

It symbolizes humanity's desire for its ethereal transformation, associated with the condition of
transcendence for inhabiting a space between heaven and earth.
Evangelina Esparza immerses herself in the search for the essence inherent to the human soul and
attempts to blur the border between the human and the divine within that inseparable nature.

Annita Klimt's analog collages, the oldest means of expression, are
They attribute to Picasso, Braque the first “intentional” creations, to the surrealists or the
Dadaists, but scholars have seen antecedents of Collages in the works of calligraphers
13th century Japanese.

Today, collage is a privileged technique in a multitude of artistic expression media and in communication mediums such as advertising. Its richness lies in the ability to multiply instruments—photography, writing, textiles, and any other material—to create, from various elements, a single communicative product. And this is what Annita Klimt does. She carefully crafts her compositions using elements from diverse sources, imbuing them with communicable personal meanings, conveying ideas, emotions, and concepts.

In it, her nature as a female artist also establishes an imprint, an intention, this time
decisively and consciously formulated. In an interview (blog “women looking at women”),
defines her work “as a natural feminine choice-impulse” and even advocates for an “art
feminist” that seems necessary to overcome a world of assumed roles. But also
He expresses his wish that one day there will simply be Art, “that which shocks, repulses,
“It enchants or scares you just by looking at it, wherever it comes from.”

In Annita Klimt's Collages we find an approach to personal identity and
collective of women, at the same time as a subtle denunciation of the stereotypical codes of
representation of women. The representation of the body, whole or fragmented, almost
always naked, coexists with the representation of nature. A coexistence that seems
rather announce an identification: the Woman-Ceres goddess of the harvests, the Woman-Gaea, the
earth, nature.

This theme is almost a common thread in his work, so that his images become
a manifesto for the recognition of a place and a power of expression, a cry of
survival, a way of fighting.

fragrance of forgotten planets, is the summary of other passions such as archaeology, cinema
French from the sixties or poetry.

Remove. Find. Rescue.

The drive for the journey, for memory, for what has been experienced, and the need to synthesize.
From a frame. From a fragment. From split screens.

Also of the word, but as another image. Like an ending with letters, always with
women as protagonists.

Exploring, from minimalism and poetics, concepts such as loss, hope or
desire.

He works manually, as a way of moving away from the mechanization and perfection of culture.
of the image. A process that forces him to deconstruct and deconstruct himself. A struggle between the gaze
free and the submissive."

All this leads us to the need to document reality itself, in photography.
José Quintanilla, who analyzes and preserves contemporary reality in his images,
telling stories about how time and space create context in relationships
social relations between human beings and the hostile environment that surrounds them, the absence of the human being
understood as present, past and future.

“Time, without any support or center of gravity to stand on, rushes,
“It runs unstoppably” Byung-Chul Han (The scent of time).

And urban art, the most contemporary of the plastic arts, with the work of the intervention of
Live Painting by international graffiti artist Casassola, with murals in London, Amsterdam,
Naples, Dakar, Spain and other international cities.

Casassola's works were conceived as an urban intervention, applied on
layers of advertising paper that, after a period of living with the harshness of the city,
were plucked and prepared for display at the Fig Bilbao 2021 Fair.
Conceptually they are a way of understanding the collectivity of a space and a time, in the
21st-century city.

The city left its mark on the work: rain, pollution, attempts at destruction. In short,
They capture the soul of this space time, they are a memory and an analysis of the urbanity that we
It destroys and defines us in a fortuitous way that almost always leaves us breathless.