un(fair) Milan, Contemporary Art Fair.

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a(fair) Milano.

DDR Art Gallery un(fair) Milan 2022 exhibition project.



At DDR Art Gallery, we approach contemporary art through the connection between collector and artist, with our gallery as a unifying and facilitating element, combining attendance at Contemporary Art Fairs with online sales nationally and internationally, with a discourse of analysis and critique of the current reality.



From this perspective, our proposal for un(fair) Milano 2022 is based on a dialogue between the works of five artists, with the human figure and its interaction with form and space as the backbone of the proposal.



Five 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 the infinite continuum of drawing, the characters of Jose A. Vallejo emerge. Since 2007, he has been developing the project My Favorite Toy, a project of indeterminate duration that grows thanks to his own experiences, duly filtered and exposed with a strong narrative character.

Since 2010, he has reinforced the discourse of this kind of intimate diary materialized in graphic pieces (drawing and engraving), sculptures (stereolithographs from 3D scans of the artist's own body), installations of everyday objects, and even performance.



A puppet or teddy bear that tells us a personal story through phrases common to all, seeking to connect the everyday with the transcendent, thus creating a process that goes from the personal to the universal.



All of this leads us to the need to document reality itself, in the photography of David Delgado Ruiz, who analyzes 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.



And urban art, the most contemporary of the visual arts, not only with the artwork but with the Live Painting intervention of the international graffiti artist Casassola, with murals in London, Amsterdam, Naples, Dakar, Spain, and other international cities.

DDR ARTISTS ART GALLERY un(fair) Milano 2022.

- Roger Sanguino - Venezuela.

- David Delgado Ruiz - Spain.

- Virginia Rivas - Spain.

- Jose A. Vallejo - Spain.

- Casassola – Spain.





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