Name Paintings by Aggtelek
01/10/2015.
[MAD] Spain. 10.09 > 23.10.2015
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA.
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA.
Ponce + Robles Art Gallery is pleased to announce its newest exhibition by Aggtelek. You can it enjoy until the 23rd October 2015. It consists in a synthetic view on the commodification of the person, seeking a diversity of thoughts originated in individual reflection.
Descripción del proyecto por Ponce+Robles.
Ponce + Robles is proud to present the last works of Aggtelek.
Through out their paintings, sculptures, drawings, performances and installations, Aggtelek explores in their projects ideas about authenticity, authorship and creative processes. Their various aesthetics linked with market trends, define the rules of the artistic convention in an ironic and informal way. The procedure of Aggtelek revolves around the expansion of ideas, taking this methodology and influence to the land of reality.
In the new series of canvases titled “Name Paintings”, names are incorporated making this the motive of the frame to address in an ironic way to the own art market, which tends to treat the artists as if they were commercial brands. The paintings, formally equal, examine ideas and stories behind each subjectivity to expand in an imagined representation which is created and executed in the spectator’s mind. Each painting leads to an infinity of readings, as many as those who stand before it. With this exhibition, Aggtelek forces to go beyond the aesthetics and focus the attention on the process and the glance.
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Dates.- 10 september to 23 october 2015.
Location.- Ponce+Robles Art Gallery. Madrid. Spain.
Aggtelek is the artistic project of Xandro Vallès (Barcelona 1978) and Gema Perales (Barcelona 1982). They live and work between Barcelona and Brussels.
The main interest in their work lays on creative processes highly focused on the investigation of a theoretical development of art production. These fearless, hyper-productive and disengaged processes are regarded as a way to show the continuous thoughts, ideas or daily dialogues that have opened the path for new works interacting in a diversity of disciplines, such as performances, sculptures, videos, texts or installations.
This duo feels deeply committed to ideas of their time. For them, Art is related to life, expressed by a vigorous and forceful vitality within the work. This liveliness is many times provoked by a challenge of the limits of the politically correct often through a humorous critique of human condition.