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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today introduced the example of the French artists Brice Dellsperger and Jean-Luc Verna, which is included in the sixth series of exhibitions that will take place at the Contemporary Art Center canning Ceuta and Murcia Veronicas Board until 26 June.
The opening of the exhibition will take place at 20:00 pm in Room Veronicas.
The new round also features solo exhibitions of artists Pilar Albarracín (Sevilla), William Cordova (Peru), Kalup Linzy (USA) and Francesco Vezzoli (Italy).
The latter three made his first solo exhibition in Spain, as Dellsperger and Verna.
As in all cycles of the Canned, artists have a common concern reflected in each sample.
Thus, in this case, the six artists make use of popular culture, art history, literature, star-system of a soap opera to explore questions such as the body, gender, identity, sexuality or desire .
Cruz explained that this is the first of the exhibitions of "the new policy will take this room, which happens to be included within the project of The Conservera" so that "the exhibits to be displayed in Murcia are have all a link, "while" will serve mainly to optimize resources and to provide a more unified policy and visual arts exhibitions in the region. "
Moreover, "the draft statement of the Canning demonstrates that with resources scarce indeed we are making the region one of the key references in the international contemporary art scene."
"This exhibition will not leave anyone indifferent," said Cruz, and that this shows "we have a textual body, charged with meaning, theater in which both artists show the breakdown and loss of the idea of the body unique. "
Thus, "their bodies, shown in their work explode into a thousand images you no longer have a single supplier but multiple, all cultural references, which shows the idea of the impossibility of the body and ego to escape the culture."
During the opening tomorrow in Ceuta, at 21:00, Kalup Linzy conduct a performance accompanied by various musicians and designed specially for the inauguration.
Then the rock band perform 'I Apologize', which Jean-Luc Verna part.
Brice Dellsperger and Jean-Luc Verna
Dellsperger Brice's work consists mainly of a series of 28 videos of varying length and entitled "Body Double" ("Body Double"), to paraphrase the film of Brian de Palma, 1984.
This series of films based on double participation in the commercial production of films.
In his works he proposes a revision of certain films.
This produces a copy, frame by frame in the sequence itself, replacing the original characters to transform.
The film that the exposition is' Body Double 22 ', which uses Dellsperger' Eyes Wide Shut "by Stanley Kubrick, ten years after its release.
Once again working with Jean-Luc Verna, who plays all the characters.
As Jean-Luc Verna, whose works are complex processes references, quaint juxtapositions and reinterpretations of older works and scenes of everyday life, is also an artist, a dancer with the company 'Gisèle Vienne' in Paris, who served ago Centro Parraga years.
To understand the universe of his work is very important the relationship with dance.
The photographs provided by Verna belong to a series in which the artist, tattooed from head to toe, is photographed in poses associated with glories of art and rock legends like David Bowie, Rodin, Siouxsie, Degas, Iggy Pop, Diamanda Gallas, Miguel Angel and Nina Hagen.
The series shows the artist's body as a tapestry in which specific changes such as changes in the tattoos of her body become a canvas in continuous transformation.
These photographs are themselves a collaboration with photographer Bruno Serralongue.
This new series is an homage to Spanish art, including references to Zurbarán, Ribera and Goya.
Source: CARM
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