The most basic way to describe what happens in our eyes when we perceive the reality that surrounds us, that is, our sight, is the ability these organs have of interpreting the world through the interaction between them and the sun's rays coming from the outside. Depending on our position in the space-time we perceive one thing or the other. This sensation therefore makes us understand that there are no shapes or things but just light and colour. It is in the reflection and with the interaction where things are generated and produced.

This is the approach and reflection that Tomar Posición proposes. This exhibition is generated through the reflection among Raúl Díaz Reyes, Ding Musa and Carlos Nunes’ artwork in the space at Ponce+Robles’ Gallery. The show suggests thinking about how things interact rather than thinking about what the things around us look like. A thought that happens to be essential in order to understand the reality in the new theories of quantum mechanics.

'In the physical world the light that hurts our eyes carries information about the objects where it comes from.'
Carlo Roveli

Tomar Posición is a three headed project that questions the importance of the description of the objects themselves and insists on the necessity of understanding the mechanisms and events that interact between the processes. All three artists intend to bestow prominence to the individual perception of every visitor to the exhibition. Carlo Roveli, Italian theoretical scientist, explains in his book ‘Reality is not what it seems’, in the world described by quantum mechanics there is not reality without the relationship among physical systems (the objects). As the artists in this exhibition suggest, it isn’t that things can interact, it’s the interaction that leads to the idea of the thing. The world of quantum mechanics is not a world of objects but one of basic events and things acquire entity the moment those basic events take place. In this case, the conjunction of the three projects by each artist in a fixed space-time.

This project is therefore generated from the interaction among the three different productions made specifically for the show. A physical interaction through reflection in Díaz Reyes, where the irradiance of colour and the reflection of Musa and Nunes’ work form their own sculptures. To Musa the perception of the shapes in space is fundamental and unique: it confronts the viewer (and the other artists’ work) to contemplate the reality represented as a structural unit in the construction of what we perceive. In Nunes it creates multiple possibilities and variations through experiments with colour and light, thus exploring a scientific universe as a production mechanism but with a clear interest in the metaphysics of the images generated by his own experiments.

Three artists who work from photography as a tool where light and colour interact in chemical processes that print information of the shapes of things in a permanent way. Shapes that not only are pigment particles that dye paper to produce images with the intention of being contemplated but also discover at a larger scale an clear approach of a vision that distorts what is presented to us; at the same time making the viewers distort the image and the reflection again and adopt an attitude towards what their eyes perceive. A game about the importance of determining a position before reality but also a responsibility for the power of transformation we have on the world around us, the world we are part of.

For Raúl Díaz Reyes, Ding Musa and Carlos Nunes, Tomar posición serves the purpose of focusing the action of the show on three different levels of interaction: between their artwork and the space, the reflections among the pieces of work but especially on the multiple processes that may emerge between the viewer and the artworks. A proposal where the public will have to look for its place and take a stance on their particular vision.

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Ponce+Robles Art Gallery. Alameda Street, 5, Madrid. Spain.
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April 9th 2016 - May 20th 2016.
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Raúl Díaz Reyes, Ding Musa, Carlos Nunes.
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Bernardo Sopelana.
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Raúl Díaz Reyes (1977, Madrid, Spain) has exhibited and received significant international scholarships in Spain, Germany, United States and Brazil, which in this country has developed its creation in recent years. His works are in different national and international private collections, in Palma de Mallorca (Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation), in Madrid (Calcografía Nacional, Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art,or in the foundation of Contemporary Art BBVA) and in São Paulo (Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado), New York (New York Spanish Center), Los Angeles (Michael Jackson Art Collection), Guatemala (TEG, Experimental Graphics Workshop) or Germany (Kloster Bentlage Rheine Foundation).

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Ding Musa (1979, São Paulo, Brasil) studied music and geography at the University of São Paulo. He participated in the residences of tactile art BOSCH, Cardiff (Wales) in 2004; In the Carpe Diem Art and Research, in Lisbon (Portugal) in 2012; and the CAJ, Artistic Residencies Program in Tokyo (Japan) in 2015. His works are scattered in museums in Brazil and in international venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in El Salvador, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza (Center sea Dragon), the Museum of contemporary Art of Goias, the Museum of contemporary Art of Paraná, Pará State Museum, the Art Hall Ribeirão Preto and at the Cultural Center of Municipal Property in São Paulo.

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Carlos Nunes (1979, São Paulo, Brasil) Holds a degree in visual arts from the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP, São Paulo). He studied also at the Saint Martins School of Arts, in London. In 2005, he moved to Buenos Aires, where he lived and worked for three years. His most notably solo shows include Triunfo das cores, amor e música, sobre os maldosos azuis (Centro de Cultura Britânica, São Paulo, 2010; Prêmio Cultura Inglesa), Até o fim (MAC Curitiba, 2009) and Amarelo (Espaço Laika, São Paulo, 2011). He also participated in the group exhibitions Abre alas (Galeria a Gentil Carioca, 2012), FIDALGA no Paço (Paço das Artes, 2010), Entre tempos (Carpe diem, Lisbon, 2009), Em torno de (Funarte, São Paulo, 2009), Paralela (Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007). He participated in art residencies in Matadero (Spain, 2014) and Tokyo (Japan, 2015).

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