IDENTITIES
VICTOR LOPE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO
IDENTITIES
Installation view of Identities at Víctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona
Identities starts from a differential story where each work is an unfolded identity.
This exhibition speaks of the beauty of diverse identities, each unfolding from its own identity, and of their perfect coexistence. Abstraction dialogues with figuration, just as sculpture, has a presence as well in this survey of differentiated identities.
The group exhibition features works by Patrik Grijalvo, Cesc Abad, Dirk Salz, Eric Cruikshank, Francisco Suárez, Mario Dilitz, and Lluc Baños.
Light plays a different role in each of the artists’ works. For Patrick Grijalvo, light is a fundamental factor in segmenting information into layers of abstraction. Grijalvo undergoes an exercise where photography becomes sculptural, uprooting it from the real world. In the work of Javier Ruiz, by contrast, light bathed in dreamlike hues permeates the scenes. Ruiz makes fun of the everyday as a praise of the sublime and captures the exact moment of dialogue between both worlds.
This line could be related to Cesc Abad, with his naïve and ironic style. Abad shows a hybrid reality between the technological revolution and the animal instinct. With an acidic and refined look, the metaphor is the order of the day as an expressive weapon.
On the other hand, Dirk Salz‘s images are placed on smooth surfaces that serve as metaphorical mirrors for the viewer; mirrors that reflect the viewer as a way of understanding the frame in which the work is placed, its viewer and the relationship that is created between both. The spectator is reflected in the work, while the work reverberates in the one who contemplates it.
Patrik Grijalvo, Centro Niemeyer, 2020,150 x 150 x 10 cm
Photo taken with Hasselblad medium format analog camera
Cesc Abad, Garden at War, 2020, Jarrón Cerámico, 45 x 30 x 30 cm
Dirk Salz, #2535, 2019, Pigmentos y resina sobre multiplex, 140 x 100 x 12 cm
In relation to Salz, Eric Cruikshank studies color as an homage to his native Scotland. The use of color in an emotional way translates into a study of the everyday, while the viewer is encouraged to address notions of his surroundings, where the familiar opens up and becomes full of possibilities. His artistic process opens a dialogue between the past and the present, the historical and the contemporary.
The drive between past and present traces is addressed by Francisco Suárez in his painting. The geometry in his work translates into a certain mysterious drive of what emerges spontaneously in the act of painting. His fields of lines are born from drops of paint that, placed freehand, flow over the surface and give the whole a special vibration.
Eric Cruikshank, Untitled 11, 2020, Oil on Linen over Board, 31.5 x 26 cm
Francisco Suárez, Lumen 25, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 125 x 92 x 4.5 cm
On the sculptural plane, Mario Dilitz contrasts the aesthetic beauty of his sculptures and the content of the themes, in a profound confrontation with the whims of human existence. His sculptures, most of them life-size, are placed on the same physical plane of the spectator, in an eternal wait to begin a dialogue.
In this same sense, Lluc Baños unfolds a new personal imaginary. His work is built on the decoding of signs, formats and materials, as if it were a language, with which he offers a focused vision of the act of seeing, representing and knowing.
The artworks in the group exhibition ‘Identities’ are the result of an expressive freedom on the part of the artists. In their representative outburst, they invite new characters into their inner worlds as a way of distancing the artists themselves from — and an appreciation of — their respective realities, now in the third person.
Perhaps the common axis of all the works is depth, different but at the same time linked to similar sensations: the spectator enters the work as does its creator. In this display of different characters, the paradox extends itself: the hidden becomes visible. Identities allows the materialization of the most hidden part of the work: the artist’s identity.
Javier Ruiz, Cualquier día nos encontraremos (note), 2020, oil on paper, 20 x 30.6 cm
Mario Dilitz, 179, 2019, Hand-carved walnut wood and black glue, 90 x 26 x 18 cm
Lluc Baños, Untitled (Rosetta series), 2019, welded iron
VICTOR LOPE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO
Barcelona, Spain
Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo is an art gallery founded in Barcelona in 2009. Gallery value proposition is to launch and consolidate careers of emerging and mid career artists having a unique approach to contemporary art, delivering this value globally, consolidating them in the european art market.
Located in the gallery district of Barcelona, it has two exhibition rooms with a total of 130 square meters. Gallery organizes between 8-10 shows per year, some of them curated by different experts. It also participates in several international art fairs, loop festival and Barcelona Gallery Weekend. Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo is located at C/ Aribau 75, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.
The group show ‘Identities’ is on view from November 5, 2020 to January 30, 2021.
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