Donna Huanca's first exhibition in Spain. ARCOmadrid begins
22/02/2017.
Travesía Cuatro [MAD] Spain 24.02 > 29.05.2017
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
Under the title "Language of Bartolina Sisa" is presented this new exhibition, the first exhibition of the artist Donna Huanca in Spain.
Donna Huanca. Psychotria Elata. Installation view. September 18 -21, 2014. ABC Berlin. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. To be titled, 2016. Painting - Oil, acrylic and pigment on digital print on canvas. 190 x 142.5 cm. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Performance view. Donna Huanca & Przemek Pyszscek. Muscle memory. June 27 - August 8, 2015. Peres projects, Berlin. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Scar Cymbals. Installation view. September 29 - December 18, 2016. Zabludowicz Collection, London. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Scar Cymbals. Installation view. September 29 - December 18, 2016. Zabludowicz Collection, London. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Wet Hose. Painting - Oil, acrylic and pigment on digital print on canvas. 190 x 142.5 cm. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Scar Cymbals. Installation view. September 29 - December 18, 2016. Zabludowicz Collection, London. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Scar Cymbals. Installation view. September 29 - December 18, 2016. Zabludowicz Collection, London. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Surrogate Painteen. Installation view. September 2 - December 28, 2016. Peres Projects, Berlin. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Surrogate Painteen. Installation view. September 2 - December 28, 2016. Peres Projects, Berlin. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Surrogate Painteen. Installation view. September 2 - December 28, 2016. Peres Projects, Berlin. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Polystyrene´s braces. Installation view. Muscle memory. December 6 - January 24, 2015. Contemporary Art Center, Riga, LV. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
Donna Huanca. Surrogate Painteen. Installation view. September 2 - December 28, 2016. Peres Projects, Berlin. Image courtesy of Peres Projects.
The performance can be visited in the art gallery Travesía Cuatro from February 24 to April 29, 2017. In this show, the artist explores the territory of the body and its double condition of surface and matter, complementary raw materials in the creation of an architecture of movement and presence.
In her work, Donna Huanca uses cosmetics as gestural painting, and as instrument for transformation. The performers, painted from head to toe, move around immersed in a state of trance and following glacial choreography. Huanca draws upon esthetic forms like camouflage, simulation and fusion in a poetry that links painting, sculpture and performance, presenting a stage that showcases an essay about the fragmentation of identity.
Huanca´s totemic sculptures combine materials that stand out for their tactile qualities, natural and synthetic fiber fabrics alongside cultural artifacts that have lost their original function and are reworked to create a new decontextualized composition.
Tearing apart the body from its armor like abstract material, Huanca reveals the atavistic nature of costume in relation to the body as an imminent form of cultural transmission.
me atas a la cola de tu caballo blanco
rompes mi cuerpo
con tu corona de plumas
soy amayra pero pintada blanca con ojos verdes
me pinto la piel
para olvidar como me violaste
me separas de mis manos, mis ojos, mis pies
mi lengua
pero todavía me mantengo humilde
porque la sangre nunca olvida
rompes mi cuerpo
con tu corona de plumas
soy amayra pero pintada blanca con ojos verdes
me pinto la piel
para olvidar como me violaste
me separas de mis manos, mis ojos, mis pies
mi lengua
pero todavía me mantengo humilde
porque la sangre nunca olvida
Donna Huanca
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Dates
From 24 Februay until 29 April 2017 (Opening: 24 Februay 10 to 15:00h; performance: 24 Februay at 13:00h)
Venue
Galería Travesía Cuatro - Calle San Mateo 16, 28004 Madrid
Donna Huanca
Donna Huanca (b. 1980, Chicago, USA) studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt as well as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has been the recipient of the DAAD Artist Frankfurt and a Fulbright research grant. Recent exhibitions include Ice Chrysocolla, Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich; Wild Style: Exhibition of Figurative Art, Peres Projects, Berlin; Sade Room (formerly reclusive), Moma PS1, New York; Poly Styrene's Braces, curated by Anne Barlow, Art in General, New York; in collaboration with kim?, Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia; Streams of Warm Impermanence, David Roberts Art Foundation and Scar Cymbals, Zabludowicz Collection, both in London.
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