Almanaque Automata bi-personal exhibition, by artists Jaime Compaire (Spain) and Veru Iche (Argentina), is to be opened on December 1 at Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid, a space specialized on the exhibition and marketing of modern and contemporary photography.
For both creators, photography turns out to be a singular tool for their experiments, without prejudices related to the blend of techniques or procedures. Iché’s works tackle topics related to the intimate familiar universe seen from the femininity angle, while Compaire’s creations reflect on “big topics” from a critic irony, setting a special complicity with spectators.
Compaire is a painter, writer, compositor and publicist. He has worked for the media (radio and television). He presently alternates between photography (analogical and digital) and painting. "I decided to become a painter in January 1955. I remember the date because that year’s calendar of the Spanish Union of Explosives was devoted to Velazquez, and January was represented by the painting of the granny frying eggs. I thought that it was magic when somebody realized that a knife placed on the edge of a dish could project such as curve shadow,” the artist points out.
On the other hand, Veru Iche began taking pictures when she was eight years old with a Polaroid camera, a present her mother gave her for Christmas. We could say that her career has been practically self-taught and experimental, having dreams and memories as themes for her work. Although her stories not always refer personal experiences, the artist works with them as the productions of her subconscious, conceiving unexpected relations, eliminating at will negative elements and skyrocketing the effects of certain experiences. Her work is based on the management of meaningful objects, capable of evoking past narrations, as well as family pictures.
The exhibition is to be opened to viewers through January 28, 2012.
Blanca Berlin Gallery
C/ Limon, 28 – Plaza Guardias de Corps
28015 Madrid, Spain
Source: Press release / http://www.blancaberlingaleria.com/
