Exhibitions

FELIPE II

ERWIN OLAF 11 May - 16 Jun 2021 We’re pleased to announce that the exhibition “Felipe II” by Erwin Olaf will not be a part of our VR program. The show features the series Felipe II, which Erwin Olaf developed at the editorial commission of Vanity Fair in 2019. Showcasing 14 photographs of a select group of the... Read more

ENERGY, FREQUENCY AND VIBRATION

Fernando Renes 20 Mar - 5 May 2021

“If you want to discover the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration”

This phrase by Nikola Tesla, selected by Fernando Renes to give title to his exhibition, alludes immediately to his own energy and work dynamics, qualities that keep alive in the creative and interpretive action present in the set of pieces that constitute his artistic proposal.
For this exhibition, two sets of works were selected in which the drawing, the written word and the use of color as instruments of expression are a constant. Present both in works that rest on paper, as in compositions built with tiles, they stimulate different relations between the spectator and the artist, surpassing the simple recognition of language to create the plastic fact together. The exhibition is complemented by two animations for which Renes used his experience in videography, but always based on drawing.

In the words of the artist: “I consider my work to be the result of a concatenation of intuitions, where there is usually no theoretical basis or a defined research project, but rather a rescue of these intuitions in other words, an attempt to intertwine the different certainties, sensations or emotions that I am having, and that as such are configuring the work, where combinatorics take on special importance, becoming my main work tool, resulting in that fabric made of remnants, intuitions, emotions, thoughts… Which is later formalized in drawings, ceramics, videos, sculptures, urban interventions.

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Fernando Renes was born in Covarrubias (Burgos), 1970. He lives and works between Bilbao and Covarrubias. With a degree in Fine Arts and a Masters in Research and Creation in Art, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions and several invitations to artistic confrontation. He has about twenty individual exhibitions, presented in cities in Spain and the United States, and his work has earned him, among other recognitions, the BilbaoArte Foundation (2018), AECID at the Spanish Academy of Rome (2013), ENDESA scholarships.

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RUTA

VORTIC 16 Mar - 1 May 2021 We’re pleased to present the exhibition RUTA on VORTIC’s platform with works by Ana Claudia Almeida (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1993), Lais Amaral (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1993) and Gabriela Monteiro (São Paulo, Brazil, 1996). The young brazilians artists, each in their own way, resort to researching the landscape in the composition of their works – reflecting their generational and developing a dialogue between them.

Mainly using the textile almost like a skin that absorbs a dynamic between gestures, colors and layers, the works exhibited here show how the three artists face the transformations of their subjective world versus the world around them. How they experience them and, mainly, how they make these experiences a subject for their work – just like a route. The exhibition is titled “Ruta” (spanish world to route) wich, as their works, opens to a dynamic that loads ways. Read more

GUAPÍSIMAS Y EL ARTE A SUS PIES

Artsy VR 16 Feb - 21 Mar 2021 We’re pleased to present Guapisimas y El arte a sus pies: an online exhibition by venezuelan artist Pepe López Reus (b. Caracas 1966)!



Pepe López Reus is an artist who lives and works in Paris. His work is based on a vast trajectory of diverse transmutation. López explores the map of the social spectrum through the translation of aesthetic codes, while developing his perception and concepts in a prolific variety of mediums such as: installations, objects, collages, paintings and performances.
The artist maps global interactions, as in the work “Guapisimas” where Pepe Lopez beckons his audience to confront the reality of global consumerism through cultural codes of society.
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DERMA

Artsy VR 6 - 27 Dec 2020 We’re pleased to announce our Viewing Room program at Artsy.
Now presenting Derma, an online exhibition by British artist Toby Christian (b. 1983 Boston, Lincolnshire).

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The exhibition comprises two new bodies of photography and sculpture, and extends Christian’s uniquely imbricated practice that spans an extensive range of process, where works stem episodically from his ongoing published writing. The umbrella title of this new exhibition, Derma, evokes that part of our skin beneath the outermost layer, formed from dense and irregular connective tissue, which cushions the body from exterior stress and strain.

Toby Christian lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include Repeller with Good Gear, for Studio Audio, commissioned by AICA-UK (International Association of Art Critics) in collaboration with PEER, London (2020), Burners, Alessandro Albanese, Milan (2019), Old School New Body, Celine, Glasgow (2019), Trippy Scroller, PEER, London, (2018), The News, Swimming Pool, Sofia, curated by David Dale, Glasgow (2017), and Railing, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017). His books Measures (2013) and Collar (2017) are published by Koenig Books, London, and his forthcoming book Commuters will be published by them in Spring 2021. Read more

DAY TO DAY

Massimo Vitali 11 Nov - 14 Dec 2020 We’re pleased to announce our Viewing Room program at Artsy.
Starring our dear artist Massimo Vitali – with 6 of his new works!

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Since 1993, Vitali, an Italian photographer, started his series in large format that investigate human behavior with the aim of social analysis, through the repetition of the same composition with subtle differences. That year Silvio Berlusconi had won the first presidential elections in Italy, and the curiosity of how this change had affected daily life made Vitali begin to observe mass concentrations. Taken with a large format camera, the photographs have the technical imposition of having to be taken from a platform several meters high that contribute to this distance and focus. The normality of the holidays is an excuse to talk about false complacency, the illusory sense of well-being, the commodification of leisure, the invasion of nature, vital conformism, exposed sexuality, cynical hedonism.

Massimo Vitali (Como, Italy, 1944) lives between Lucca, Italy, and Berlin, Germany. He studied classical culture at the Liceo de Milao and later graduated from the London College of Printing. From the seventies to the nineties he developed his career as a photo reporter, focusing on the artistic production from the nineties on. Read more