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| Francisco Peinado - The Gold Route |
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The Gold Route The recent economical recession that started as a consequence of a failed capitalist model could be one of the plots that the artist Francisco Peinado proposes for his second exhibition at JM gallery to symbolize the fear and alarm that has been provoked in the majority of society and also to be ironic about its behaviour. The new adventure of this tireless and unclassifiable artist, sharp and with his own personal language, takes us to The Gold Route, a dangerous terrain with many risks where questions are to be asked about the pictorial process and the nature of the paintings. Westerns are one of the most popular cinematographic genres of the United States; they serve the artist to recreate the epic of our current society. The exhibition, composed of paintings and works on paper produced in the last two years, gathers together characteristic iconography (hats, guns, horses, the desert, saloons, ranches and stagecoaches) for a complete series of very elaborated short tales in which a recognisable range of ochre colours predominate where the artist seems to retake his period of the eighties.
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| Tea Makipää - We should be better off than our children |
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A critical reflection of the planet’s sustainability and the western way of life: consumerism, environmental issues, social-economic differences, as well as globalisation’s disadvantages, play the leading role of Finnish artist, Tea Mäkipää’s (Lahti, 1973) discourse in her installations, videos and photographs.
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| José Luis Serzo - THE WELCOME II – El regreso de la maravilla |
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A critical reflection of the planet’s sustainability and the western way of life: consumerism, environmental issues, social-economic differences, as well as globalisation’s disadvantages, play the leading role of Finnish artist, Tea Mäkipää’s (Lahti, 1973) discourse in her installations, videos and photographs.
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José Medina Galeote
- Dog eat dog |
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Del
30 de enero
al 28 de marzo de 2009 |
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To talk about the trajectory produced by artist
José Medina Galeote (Gerona, 1970) means taking a journey that
goes from a general capacity of intuition and becomes the
heterogeneity of the supports that are used as a way to feel
art. This journey is also a vision over time and its
transformations in many occasions go beyond actual frontiers of
creation. Proof of this lies in the incursions that he makes,
with a certain recognition and continuous regeneration, through
video, photography or installation, always returning to painting
as the revitalising axis of his activity. His situation is
reinforced by a solid formation where he alternates theory and
practise through numerous workshops with figures of contemporary
creation that stand out, and always keeping a sense of direct
cohesion. We have before us a painter who uses the pictorial
medium and its close conceptual ramifications as an expressive
approach and who directs his search toward the meaning of
painting.
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Rehistory |
| November
29 - January 24 2009 |
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The criteria of cohesion defining this project
is to deepen through practises in which the
present exhibits the past – reconstructing,
recreating or reinventing it – via appropriation
or representation procedures, even through
staged rhetorical devices. All this, integrated
through the artists’ line of work, taking
different authentic paths to commemorate the
past and convert our relationship with it into
an esthetical concept.
A story, a portrait and a landscape give rise,
articulating the evidence, to present uses that
go through the past.
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| J u d
i t h S a m e nr |
| September
12- November 15 2008 |
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Judith Samen
elaborates a complex web of social and aesthetic
discourses by investigating the body. Judith Samen’s works
are full of different visual references. They function on
various iconographic levels of both the sacred and the
profane: vanitas meets the commonplace. They play with art’s
historical topics, just as in the way the Old Masters
portrayed everyday life, and also combine various genres:
portrait, self-portrait and still life. Ageing, birth, and death, the great cycle of becoming and
ceasing to be are some of the aspects reflected in her
portraits affecting most of all upon the authentic that
unmistakably coruscate among reality, fiction, theatre and
character study.
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| C a t a l i n a O b r a d o r - F l a s h m e |
| May 9th – July 18th, 2008 |
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Catalina Obrador’s work possesses an interior quality rich in poetry, in whispers and silences, rich in power and symbolism. It is a dreamed world of fantasy, where characters associated with mythology and Greek culture appear to create works of impressive presence and emotional impact. In these works, she makes reference to another one of her fascinations, Hebrew and Muslim culture and religion, the fruit of numerous trips to Egypt and Israel.
“Flash me” is part of the dictionary of symbols that I have accumulated during this time. Initially it was a summary, intending to provide the viewers with a glossary, but has become an integral part of the process. “Flash me” is a chapter that forces all of the possibilities of combination to their limits.
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| I s a a c Co r d a l |
| 26/02/ 2008 - 26/04/ 2008 |
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His exposition, presented in the JM Gallery, is comprised of four installations, the development of each corresponding to one of the last four years. The gallery halls have been transformed into a theatre of ghostly shadows where the representation of the human being, through modelling and drawings, using elements such as wire and light, reconstructs a world between fiction and reality. Beds with absent bodies, shadows of characters, double figures, disfigured faces, and masks are projected in a dynamic and sophisticated production that uses meagre materials in order to avoid any technological pretension.
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| D a n i e l C u b er t a - L i f e i n t h i s d e s e r t |
| 23/11/07 - 22/02/08 |
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Life in this desert (notebookof Mitzpe) is the title of the work of video-artist Daniel Cuberta (Seville, 1972), presented in JM Gallery. Together with the series of British photographer Adrian Tyler, we are displaying this 35 minute, cinematic production. It is composed of eleven chapters and was developed between August and September of 2006 in the Mitzpe Ramon desert in Neguev, Israel. Cuberta organizes his series of stories in a poetic fashion, utilizing different animation techniques. He establishes a narrative through a series of notes about daily situations, where word and image strike up a dialogue that blurs borders and transforms reality into fiction. Cuberta presents us with a world in opposition, conflicts of existence, and the fears and truths that are seen in the mirror.
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| A d r i a n T y l e r - R o a d |
| 23/11/07 - 22/02/08 |
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This new project by English photographer Adrian Tyler consists of a dozen photos, with striking, visual impact. Tyler addresses the commitment to ecological values and critiques the colonization of the human race that he has portrayed in his previous projects. This is visible in the series Construction Work (Space Opera) that we presented in the gallery in 2004, as well as in the series Building, House ó Cimientos.
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| O s k a r R a n z - Pr o c e s s a n d c o n t e m p l a t i o n |
| 14/09/2007 - 10/11/2007 |
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Throughout his creative development, Óscar Ranz has explored systematically and eloquently the conceptual nature and the expressive capacity of the material and compositive resources of paint. From the accumulation of pictorial layers to carving them up until obtaining the construction of wefts of colour lines, his work has always maintained a coherence based on the comprehension of the picture as a global two-dimensional surface on which the action – not concrete but abstract, in its psychical origin as well as in its materialization, takes place. Seen from this concept of the medium, the resulting work has complete autonomy as object of contemplation; but, at the same time, it is like a sign where to find the sedimentary traces of the creative process of which it is the consequence. Two temporal dimensions are balanced by the author: the one extended along its genesis and the contemplative one fixed in the final object.
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| M a t í a s S á n c h e z - S i l l y t h e s h e e p t h a t c o n f e s s e s t o w o l f |
| 30 of march – 26 of may 2007 |
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We are living in a society with a constant bombardment of images. We have become indifferent to others pain and new technologies have invaded all spaces imaginable. In this media context, the artist Matías Sánchez makes us participate in his burlesque and sarcastic representation of daily life, to face up to raw reality. A reality that we connect the popular and mundane by means of works that shows the social chaos with his complete compromise with pictorial language, the basic use of drawing and colour, without resignation to his complicity with graffiti or comic aesthetic, like traditional way to reveal the debility and insecurity of a society in crisis.
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I v á n P é r e z - W a r S h o w |
| 30 of march – 26 of may 2007 |
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The Spanish artist Ivan Pérez (Tineo, Asturias, 1973) does to make a reflection again with the images of this new exhibition, the third in JM Gallery after his previous projects like Producto Interior Bruto – 2001 and Prehistoria – 2003. Normally he moved by investigations around the daily life’s representation, about that he has done a critical reading of social aspects that often go unnoticed, he makes that in this occasion encouraged by the intention of to take us to discover the distance existing between the viewer and the representation or the spectacle.
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J u d a s A r r i e t a - R e l a x |
| 2 6 d e e n e r o – 1 7 d e m a r z o , 2 0 0 7 |
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Galería JM presenta la primera exposición en Andalucía de Judas Arrieta (Hondarribia, Guipúzcoa, 1971), artista influenciado por la iconografía pop asiática y el manga. Tras un año repleto de inauguraciones entre Pekín y Madrid, donde ha obtenido el Primer Premio “Generación 2006” de Cajamadrid, Arrieta ha reunido un conjunto de obra reciente que es reflejo de su enriquecedora estancia en China y que consiste en dibujos sobre papel hecho a mano, óleos sobre lienzo de diversos formatos, objetos y proyecciones en video.
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C a r l o s S c h w a r t z : M á s l u z |
| 16th
of November 2006 - 16th of january 2007 |
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At
Gallery JM the spectators will find the exhibition of
recent works by Carlos Schwartz (La Laguna, Tenerife,
1966) composed of installations, paintings, drawings
and objects. A proposal that emphasizes the ideas of
assemblage and three-dimensional and by which the artist
tries to unravel the relations between the light that
illuminates these objects and the space in which they
are placed.
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M a y t e V i e t a : L a f r a g i l i d a d d e l m u n d o |
| 7th
of September – 4th of November 2006 |
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The
Gallery JM presents the firs individual in Andalusia
of Mayte Vieta (Blanes, Gerona, Spain, 1970). With title "The
fragility of the world" which compose the exhibition
of a selection of recent works in which the artist reflects
relating to the idea of fragility from a personal need
to catch the moments, lived and imagined, that structure
her memory. The sample consists of several pieces realized
in photographic support and an installation with sculptures
in bronze with which this artist of multidisciplinary
formation invites the viewer to the contemplation of
sceneries of huge metaphorical charge.
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C a r l o s A i r e s & P e p o R u i z D o r a d o : S o y e l n o v i o d e l a m u e r t e |
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17th of june - 29th of july 2006 |
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Artists
Carlos Aires (Ronda, Malaga, 1974) and Pepo
Ruiz Dorado (Puerto Real, Cádiz, 1968) presents a specific
project for the gallery, where they raise jointly a
stage of vital conflict. Landscapes of war, happiness,
pain, absences, places for the prohibited pleasure
and symbolic constructions of a contradictory panorama.
"I am the fiancée of the death" is
the title to this multidisciplinary exhibition, where
there is association of the concepts of force, pleasure
and death. Both artists invite the spectator to take
part in this artistic wedding with all it senses and
it intelligence.
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I r e n e A n d e s s n e r : D o n n e I l l u s t r i |
| del 6 de abril al 14 de junio |
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El proyecto "Donne Ilustri" se sitúa en el marco del clásico y conocido café Florian de Venecia
donde la artista Toma como referencia la serie de retratos al óleo del XIX correspondientes a
personajes masculinos famosos venecianos, de Marco Polo pasando por Tiziano hasta
Goldoni, instalados en la sala “degli Uomini illustri” en la plaza de San Marco y los confronta
con una serie de retratos elaborados mediante sus propias acciones y transformaciones en
diez mujeres venecianas, entre ellas la compositora más famosa de la ciudad (Barbara Strozzi),
la cortesana más cara (Verónica Franco) y la pintora Rosalba Carriera, así como el primer
médico femenino (Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia) o el primer abogado femenino del mundo
(Moderata Fonte).
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J . C . C a s a d o M a n c h a f u e r a d e s e r i e : “ n e w b o d y ” y “ A g n u s D e i ” |
| 3th
of febrary - 25th of march 2006 |
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“Fuera
de serie” (extraordinary) is the title of this
new exposition which Galería JM presents in its
rooms in different forms (video, photography and sculpture)
and which the artist divides into two series: “newbody” and “Agnus
Dei”. The first one corresponds to the continuity
of his last work. The space of his representations seams
to be populated by strange and sensual beings which experiment
mutated relations following the rhythm of a ritual dance,
which suggests the series reproduction and the dismantling
of the individual identity. The clone bodies of this
work multiply their number but remain identical, turned
into a new collective body enveloping the spectator with
uncountable questions about the ways the technology is
affecting the human culture.
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I x o n e S á d a b a : P h l e g m o n e |
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18th of november 2005 - 14th of january 2006 |
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Galería
JM presents, in collaboration with Galería Fernando
Pradilla, Madrid, the complete series Pleghmone of the
artist IXONE SÁDABA (Bilbao, 1977), which she
began to develop in 2004 and a part of which we already
had the opportunity to see in Bilbao and Valladolid.
The work consists of nine digital photographs in panorama
format, realised in 3 different sceneries and in each
of them we can see three gaunt actions, creating three
different photographs at each location. The construction
of theatrical settings, the actions happening and the
evolvement of the artist herself draw a world of cruelties
and fears, of pleasures and violence, as well as of
mutated beings shocking the conscience.
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A a r o n L l o y d : S . O . S . S i m p h o n y |
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23th of september - 5th of november 2005 |
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S.O.S.
Symphony creates a contemporary revision of the subject
of death (Tanatos), in its sculptural representation.
It alludes to the disappearance of the physical existence,
the transcendence of the body and the fatality of death.
As in former projects, the central setting of S.O.S.
Symphony has been the water, with all the symbolic
scope it conveys. The reflection, the metaphor of the
mirror, the world of ideas, the immaterial, the changing
and the allusions to the world and the intangible.
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P a b l o G e n o v é s : V i a j e i n t e r i o r c o n p a i s a j e
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3th of january - 30th of june 2005 |
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Henry
Bergson says about the work of art and the experience
it produces: “The state of my soul, moving forward
on the road of time, is constantly growing with the duration
it is accumulating; to say it like this, is forms a snowball
out of itself.” No snowball but desired paradises
does Pablo Genovés have in his soul while moving
forward on the road of time. The artist is collecting
antique landscapes which are snapshots of the early 20th
century, molten with the imagination, the application
of new technologies and the plastic manipulation of them,
offering the spectator a sensual “internal journey
with landscape”. What Pablo Genovés shows
us, is a use of the art as an instrument to create thought-provoking
forms of mutated lives, appeared in the middle of a placid
landscape, of groves and lakes captured in antique photographs.
By using icons of the occidental culture, the artist
is offering us a world in conditions of possibility to
make us think of an” internal journey with landscape” where
reality and fiction are mixing.
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P a b l o A l o n s o H e r r a i z : M o n t o u n c i r c o y m e c r e c e n l o s e n a n o s |
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1th of april - 28th of may 2005 |
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Under
the thought-provoking and ironic title “I set up
a circus and the dwarfs are growing”, the artist
Pablo Alonso Herraiz, Málaga, unfolds a highly
interesting production, explicitly arranged for the Gallery
Javier Marín, a production where the artist parodies
himself and the surrounding world, using his complete
repertoire, rich of harmonically mixed styles.
The exposition, structured in 2 parts, consists of
25 works from paintings to drawings. The first part,
displayed in the entrance room of the gallery (upper
part), is composed of 5 oil paintings on large-sized
canvas, 300 x 200 cm, installed like big tops, whose
subject, as the title indicates, is the universe of
the dwarfs, dwarfs turning into giants, metaphors,
hyperboles and developments the artist uses to explain
the possibility of an inner growth of mankind, the
human who is growing, like Herraiz says in the text
of the exposition, in a permanent cinematic search
for the truth
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| Ó s k a r R a n z : T ó c a l a o t r a v e z R a n z |
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29th of january - 12th of march 2005 |
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Until
the second half of the 20th century, to the action of
elaborating a painting there was nothing more attributed
than the obvious instrumental condition enabling to achieve
the desired result: the pictorial picture. Though, since
in the early 50th first Jackson Pollock and shortly later
Georges Mathieu, the members of the European group COBRA
or the ones of the Japonese Gutai, among others, began
to give relevance to the prolonged act of the execution,
the bases of what later would define itself as art of
the process were formed, a new artistic concept where
the production became more important than the result,
and even turned into the only object, relegating the
resulting forms – in the event of materialising – to
just remains. The real time becomes a substantial element
of the artistic action.
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C r i s t i n a M a r t í n L a r a : W e n i c h n u w ü s s t e w o r a n d a s l i e g t . . . |
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27th of november 2004 - 8th of january 2005 |
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Lately,
there are things I’m going through, things happening
to me…
... if I only knew what they are about … maybe
I could do something on this matter?
The works are a search for our personal subjectivity
and the imprecise frontier between the real and the
imaginary, starting from personal experiences and the
context which is surrounding me, the subjective and
personal, like a whole of experiences accumulated bit
by bit. I use artificial communication being able to
transcend from the me to the other person, to make
the spectator see and feel them with a different view;
presenting them in an abstract way and continuously
raising again the problem of the inter-subjective communication
of the artistic experience.
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I ñ a k i L a r r i m b e : A g n o s i a |
| 15th
of october - 20th of november 2004 |
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HOLLYWOOD.
His way, Andy Warhol announced this aesthetic democratisation
of the future: “I love Hollywood. Over there the
whole world is made of plastics”. A plastic world,
a world of plastics, with or without plastic surgery.
Plastic feelings, plastic identities, artists of plastic
or covered by chewing gum. Plastic seduction. Cosmetic
eternity in antiquated celluloid. Stills of a laminated
or canned life. Following the specialised critic: “the
secret life of the polymers forms large molecule-chains,
entangled in a biochemical redefinition of the social
contract and living together.“ Don’t miss
the new episodes of The Plastic Life. The most successful
TV series. Now available to everyone
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