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| Simeón Saiz Ruiz, Killing of civilians in Sarajevo due to projectiles that crashed next to the municipal market. Monday 28 August 1995, 1998 Universitat de València. Martínez Guerricabeitia Collection |
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Organised by:
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Fundació General de la Universitat de València
Centre Cultural La Nau
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Collaborate:
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Banco de Santander
Heineken
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With the participation of:
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Asociación de coleccionistas de arte contemporáneo 9915
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| Commissioner: | Alfonso de la Torre |
The exhibition “Neither Captive nor Disarmed. Art, Memory and Pain versus Politics (or violence) in/from (the Spain from) the 20th Century”, lays out with this long and resonant title which reminds of a political wall poster, an encounter between the collections of the Association of Private Collectors of Contemporary Art -known as “9915”- and the Martínez Guerricabeitia Collection.
Knowing the elements of the collection patiently collected by the couple of Jesús Martínez Guerricabeitia and Carmen García Merchante (a collection centred on the so-called “social art” and exhibited in the Bancaja Foundation until the end of August), this exhibition lays out a current evocation, a gaze of those artists, of some national and international works which reflect on violence and pain nowadays.
At the UV room, 40 works are shown (paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos) and an important collection of pictures, all proceeding from the above mentioned collections, which reflect the validity of an Art which could have continued to be added to the Martínez Guerricabeitia collection. As well as highlighting pain, reflection on violence and attraction to horror, they are sill art motors in our current time. Four chapters divide the exhibition: ”Silence (and not)- Coming and Going”; “Stories”, “Eternal return and now” and “Spanish caprice (photography)”.
Some of the exhibited pieces at “Neither captive nor disarmed” are direct inheritors of collage and photomontage -techniques which have been really fertile for our current times-. Hence, they have achieved an encounter between unalike poetic elements sounding out in darkness without dodging the vertigo derived from such associations between the unreality of the concrete. Feeling abyss.
Alfonso de la Torre
Exhibition curator
Participating artists:
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Miquel AGUIRRE
Frederic AMAT
Eugenio AMPUDIA
Eduardo ARROYO
Sergio BELINCHÒN
Rafael CANOGAR
Yoan CAPOTE
EQUIPO CRONICA
EQUIPO REALIDAD
Joan FONTCUBERTA
Juana FRANCÉS
Carlos GARAICOA
Kepa GARRAZA
Juan GENOVÉS Ruth GÓMEZ
Concha JEREZ
Víctor MIRA
Eduardo NAVE
Nuno NUNES-FERREIRA
Joan PONÇ
Liliana PORTER
Ixone SADABA
Simeón SAIZ RUIZ
Antonio SAURA
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Santiago SIERRA
Wolfang STILLER
Antonio SUÁREZ
Darío VILLALBA
Ernesto YÁÑEZ
Santiago YDÁÑEZRinus VAN DE VELDE
Wolf VOSTELL
Robert CAPA
Francesc CATALÁ ROCA
Marisa FLÓREZ
Alberto GARCÍA ALIX
Cristina GARCÍA RODERO
Alberto KORDA
César LUCAS
Ramón MASATS
Xavier MISERACHS
Nicolas MÜLLER
Francisco ONTAÑÓN
Carlos PÉREZ SIQUIER
Jorge RUEDA
Rafael SANZ LOBATO
Carlos SAURA
Gerardo VIELBA |
