Iván Pérez
Garantía Social

Inauguration:
Friday 11.12.2009, 20:00 – 22:00 h.

Exhibition:
11.12.2009 – 30.01.2010

GALERÍA JM
Duquesa de Parcent, 12. E - 29001 Málaga.
Telf./Fax: 952 216 592
galeriajm.com

Timetable:
Monday to friday from 11,00 to 13,30 and 18,00 to 21,00 h.
Saturday from 11,00 to 13,30 h.

Iván Pérez.
Garantía Social 2009
Material escolar y botes de Cerveza.
198 x 151 x 148 cm.

Exhibition

After the exhibitions Producto interior bruto, Prehistoria, Warshow and Paisajes para un animal muerto, JM Gallery presents Garantía Social (Social Guarantee) in its halls, the fourth exhibition by the artist Iván Pérez (Tineo, Asturias, 1973).

The artist takes on the concept of education for this new project, different topics such as school teaching or the precariousness of this. He uses a variety of school materials as supports; rebuilding, manipulating and transgressing their forms and their typical uses.
The exploration of different territories surrounding the values of a society suffering a recession, submerged in capitalistic market systems, in the new social networks and abuses of power, take the representations that Iván Pérez builds to produce a sharp and acidic reflection regarding what could be a new failure of the educational systems based on competency, success and failure.

The exhibition consists of seven pieces that trace a cross cutting line as a pedagogical instrument to represent values in this social field. Amongst these, panhandler stands out, an automated machine, made rudimentarily with the top of a school chair and a Burger King cup amongst other elements that serve to beg. Línea Recta takes centre stage through drawing and engraving as the characteristic technique. The piece is composed of six school table tops lined up on the wall, with the engraved inscription: Se prolonga al infinito en ambos sentidos. Garantía social stands out for its visual impact and aesthetic conception: a sculpture produced with many joined, intertwined, school tables and chairs, where the artist has fixed on many empty beer cans on its extremities.

Ivan Pérez is a graduate of Bellas Artes (Fine Arts) and he obtains a D.E.A. (Diploma of Advanced Studies) through the University of Castilla La Mancha. He completes his education in Monumental Art from the AKI School of Fine Arts in Enschede, Holland and in the International Centre of Photography of New York. He is correspondent to the video festival 143Delicias. Since 1995 he has participated in numerous exhibitions, gallery shows and art centres in Europe and the United States, such as: CGAC, La Casa Encendida, Doméstico, Photoespaña, CCCB, Conde Duque, Videospain, Metronom, Casa de América (Spain). Kunstverein, Deuctscher Künstlerbund, (Germany). The Gallery, Kunstera Milton Gallery, ICP, Goliat Visual Space, ISCP (USA). Galería Palacio de Galveias (Portugal). Pschiit Contemporary Art (France). 7514BK, Van de Nieuwe Dingen Art Space (Holland).