"Variaciones a partir de Malevich" an exhibition by José Manuel Ballester at Ivorypress
24/05/2018.
[Madrid] Spain 24.05>21.07.2018
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metalocus, INÉS OÑATE
Description of project by Ivorypress
On 24 May Ivorypress will present artist José Manuel Ballester’s second solo exhibition, entitled Variaciones a partir de Malevich.
For this exhibition, open until 21 July 2018, Ballester has developed a series of variations based on the artist’s Suprematist Compositions, proposing an inner journey through the eleven geometric and non-representative elements that make up the original work. The result is a series of compositional variations that at first glance could very well be options created by Malevich himself.
Through the interplay of the figures in the composition, we can clearly see the different fields of attraction or repulsion that can take place in relation to the space they occupy and their relationship to each other, revealing a game of magnetism of formal, chromatic, spatial and tonal virtues.
Based on the melody proposed by Malevich in his composition and through this exercise of variations on the starting theme, Ballester highlights the rich potential hidden both in this particular work and in Malevich’s oeuvre as a whole, inviting the viewer to consider this potential that can be applied to any work of art.
José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960) is a painter and a photographer. Degree in Fine Arts, 1984. Since then he has won various awards and scholarships. He has participated in a lot of exhibitions all over the world, including the international ARCO fair for the last ten years. His work forms part of the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and it has been exhibited in Beijing, Canada, New York, London, Sao Paulo, France, Germany, Tokyo and Colombia. First Prize in Painting in the XVIII Biennial of Alexandria and the National Print Award, 1998.Premio Nacional de Fotografía 2010.
His artistic career began with a particular attention on the technique of the Italian and Flemish painting of the XV and XVIII centuries. Since 1990, he started to blend painting and photography. We can highlight, between his numerous exhibitions, Lugares de paso, Valencia, 2003; Setting Out, New York, 2003; or Habitación 523, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2005; and recently Fervor de metrópolis, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2011; La abstracción de la realidad, Sala Alcalá 31, Community of Madrid and DA2, Salamanca, 2011; and Espacios ocultos in the Spanish Academy, Rome, 2012. He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in art fairs as ARCO, Art Chicago, Artforum Germany, Paris Photo and Art Miami and in cities such as Dallas, Paris, Miami, São Paulo, Dubai, Beijing, Shanghai, Toronto and many others. And some more current ones like: Gli Spazi Nascosti di José Manuel Ballester Nei Palazzi di Genova, Museo di Palazzo Reale e Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa, Italy (2017), Paisajes encontrados: El Bosco, El Greco, Goya, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain (2016), Museos en blanco, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain (2015).
ACT > 10/05/2018