Madrid’s Espacio Minimo Gallery, in collaboration with REVOLVER (Lima, Peru), will be showcasing through January 26, 2013, the collective exhibition Bajo el Sol de la Muerte, which includes pieces created by Miguel Andrade Valdez, Elena Damiani, Pablo Hare, Phillipe Gruemberg, Jerry B. Martin, Andres Marroquin Winkelmann, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Juan Salas, Giancarlo Scaglia and Jose Vera Matos.
This is not the first time that Espacio Minimo works with foreign galleries to revitalize its habitual program, it began during the last season with Saul Sanchez’s project Pato o conejo in collaboration with Bogota’s Nueveochenta gallery. Bajo el sol… proposes famous or unpublished works created by ten Peruvian artists, whose poetics coincide in two fundamental aspects. The first group is focused on the use of words (but also signs, marks or indications) to build images that tackle the course of time. The other group works on its most immediate environment, by turning space and identity into the axis of its work.
Ishmael Randall Weeks’ work stands out, since he usually recycles disposed materials to alter them and create architectural spaces or objects and give them new use and value. For this event he has created Heraldos Negros, in which he reproduces Cesar Vallejo’s poem with letters taken from tires and some trophies dedicated to the poet. Likewise, there is an extremely abstract and hypnotizing image in Juan Salas’ video-projection that puts different associations on the table.
It undoubtedly is an excellent opportunity for Spanish viewers to admire a representation of the finest Latin American contemporary art.
Espacio Minimo Gallery
Doctor Fourquet, 17, Madrid
Source: Press release
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