I’m beyond excited and honoured to share the news about my participation to the upcoming exhibition entitled ‘Horizon and Limit’ which will be held in one of the galleries of the new CaixaForum Valencia, between the end of June 2022 to the beginning of January 2023, alongside some of my most favourite and fascinating artists of all times such as Max Ernst, Gustave Courbet, Ferdinand Hodler, Hermen Anglada Camarasa, whose works will be installed in relation to contemporary artists’ works such as Gerhard Richter, Ugo Rondinone, Kim Sooja, Victoria Civera, Nicolas Faure, Sophie Ristelhueber, Walter Niedermayr, Cristina Lucas, Edward Burtynsky, among others.
I have loaned two of my works: Nyx (the night), 2019 and Stygere (hateful), 2019 to the foundation and I look forward to virtually following updates and impressions from this exciting show from here in Melbourne!
Below, some words in English and more coming soon:
Landscape is an “invention” of art, with just four centuries of existence. Its creation determined our perception of nature and our capacity to be moved by natural phenomena. Landscape is also understood as a way of visually taking hold of the world and has been used to conquer new territories and tame nature.
The exhibition explores landscape as a cultural codification, as a representation of nature that seemingly certifies the real, aware that it is pure artifice.
Landscape does not reproduce nature but rather stages an idea of it. The title of the exhibition, Horizon and Limit, two terms linked to the perception of the territory, serves to narrow down the endless realm of landscape. Faced with the immensity of the world, human beings can only grasp it through the horizon that limits the gaze and stages an illusion, and are aware of the limits imposed by nature.The exhibition, which includes painting, photography and video, does not follow a chronology but will be divided into thematic sections to explore the idea of the spectacular and the sublime, the notion of reality and objectivity, the intervention of humans on nature, as well as landscape as political action, resistance and denunciation.
More info here
