Spanish young artist Jesus Zurita’s exhibition, titled El olor perfecto, kicked off this Wednesday June 22 at the Atlantic Center of Modern Art (CAAM)in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
More than a traditional display, El olor… is a large-scale processed work that was prepared by Zurita for several weeks at San Antonio Abad Hall. The artist has called this works “mural paintings”, questioning the representation as concept, as they can be performed or “staged” works in which rationality and emotional experience are blended.
The exhibition will be open to the public through August 28.
During his short-but-prolific career, Zurita has worked with painting, drawing and installation. He was born in Ceuta, Spain, in 1974. He’s been living in Grenada since 1993, where he got his degree in Fine Arts. Zurita has carried out exhibitions in the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art in Seville, Palacio de los Condes de Gabia and America Institute, Damian Bayon Center in Grenada, and galleries Fucares, Sandunga, Granada, Espacio Liquido, Gijon, Alfredo Viñas, Malaga, Spain; as well as GEGaleria in Monterrey, Mexico, Costantini Contemporary Art, Milan, 7 Contemporary Art Gallery in The Hague, Holland, Cervantes Institute in Tokyo, among others.
Also at the CAAM, on June 27, 28 and 29, the series of conferences La fotografia como objeto debil (Photography as weak object), by Cuban curator and art critic Juan Antonio Molina. Scheduled to be given at this institution’s Multipurpose Hall, the talks will be aimed at students, professors, people interested in photography and the public.
The research carried out by Molina on contemporary photography has placed special attention on the dissolution and softening of photography, in ideological and physical terms. He suggests, for this series of conferences, to analyze such processes as expressions of a post-modern state of contemporary photography, related to the so called “dissolution” of art, which has been debated during the last decades. The study is mainly based on Latin American photography, particularly its impact on the relationship between image and history, among collective and individual identities, documentary making and fiction.
This project was born within the framework of Relaciones Negativasexhibition, by artists Marta Maria Perez Bravoand Rene Peña, to be inaugurated on July 1 at La Regenta Art Center, in conjunction with a project of inter-institutional collaboration. Tres paradigmas en crisis: Identidad/Diferencia, Verdad/Mentira, Visible/Invisible Round Table will be held on June 30 as summing-up of the event, where the artists, along with Molina and the chairman of CAAM, Omar-Pascual Castillo, will analyze the basic aspects of its visual language.
Juan Antonio Molina (Havana, Cuba, 1965) studied Art History at Havana University. He presently lives and works in Mexico. He was the curator at Havana Biennial and the Photographic Library of Cuba. He recently organized the exhibitions Herejias: Iconografias de Pedro Meyer, (Image Center, 2008) and Presencia flagrante: Marcos Lopez y Ruben Ortiz Torres (Image Center, 2009). Likewise, he participated as coordinator for the 13th Biennial of Photography 2008, in Mexico. He currently works as curator at the Image Center in Mexico DF.
Source: http://www.caam.net/
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