Itinerarios 09-10 is the convergence of projects made by Basma Alsharif, Erick Beltran, Felipe Cortes, Javier Peñafiel, Xavier Salaberria, Eduardo Soriano, Marc Vives and Begoña Zubero, which can be admired at Botin Foundation, Santander, through March 20, 2011.
They the artists from the 17th Fine Arts Scholarship Call issued by that institution, handpicked among 963 applicants from 63 countries.
A text written by art critic Manuel Olveira, member of the awarding jury, can be read in the printed catalogue. For Olveira: “production projects are research guide lines that go deeper into the activity and career of artists and their insertion and sense in the art framework. Their selection has responded to, beyond the quality of their works, the capacity of setting interesting questions related to the present days of art”.
The Diaspora, transit, disconnection between culture and territory, are part of the contemporary and conflictive existence, and these contents are reflected in the work of Basma Alsharif (Kuwait, 1983); Erick Beltran (Mexico DF, 1974) has been working for years in projects regarding to the different ways to link images and concepts; Felipe Cortes (Bogota, Colombia, 1978), follows every itinerary’s nomadic and procedural logic, just like an expeditionary student; Javier Peñafiel (Zaragoza, Spain, 1964) explores the contemporary identity through pictures, videos, texts, drawings, books and installations, with some doses of romanticism; Xabier Salaberria (San Sebastian, Spain, 1969) creates new frontiers and relations in the space organization and the system prescribing the order of objects; Eduardo Soriano (Florence, Colombia, 1976) pays attention to the phenomenon of migrations with shoes emerging from dreams printed on photographic paper; Marc Vives (Barcelona, Spain, 1978) develops a project with elements of frustrated attempts involving the disappearance of one person; and Begoña Zubero (Bilbao, Spain, 1962) carries out visual tours through architectural and landscape remains in cities oppressed by totalitarian regimes.
Botin Foundation Exhibition Hall (www.fundacionbotin.org)
Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola Street 3, Santander
Video with artist’s comments:
http://www.youtube.com/user/fundacionmbotin#p/u/2/c7yBEcUl-bI
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