It retains its original iron structure, grayish in color and with a marked French air. Today it has been converted into the office and headquarters of The Sibarist, in an ephemeral space, with a total of 76 square meters.
VER EN GOOGLE MAPSThrough photography, drawing, collage, sculpture, painting… the artists show us their perception and interpretation of the peripheries. Fernando Barrios Benavides is characterized by an abstraction with a narrative through sculptures and a sometimes collage painting that combines different materials, techniques and materials, Raul Bravo makes drawings and quick notes in his urban drifts, collages as an artist’s book and Yuri Pol, through photography, brings us social moments, human landscapes and empty territories, but also poetic images of greater abstraction.
A metaphor through an imaginary world of the human mind and heart. Everything is a fortuitous game that escapes our control and in which we can only enter through acceptance. Existential unease where we also glimpse hope and the possible escape routes that we are capable of devising, perhaps in the form of imaginary paradises.
A constant emotional drive that is glimpsed through an elegant visual poetics, symbolic, balanced and complex. The work of Javier Guijarro Fayard is an extraordinary exercise of empathy with the concerns of the psyche, which through graphic and figurative mechanisms, acquires its own very personal style. A micro-world that becomes universal.
A metaphor through an imaginary world of the human mind and heart. Everything is a fortuitous game that escapes our control and in which we can only enter through acceptance. Existential unease where we also glimpse hope and the possible escape routes that we are capable of devising, perhaps in the form of imaginary paradises.
A constant emotional drive that is glimpsed through an elegant visual poetics, symbolic, balanced and complex. The work of Javier Guijarro Fayard is an extraordinary exercise of empathy with the concerns of the psyche, which through graphic and figurative mechanisms, acquires its own very personal style. A micro-world that becomes universal.
The call “Thinking the City” calls for emerging artists who, through their work, reflect and dialogue on the contemporary city, offering unique perspectives on their real experiences, research and desires, from a critical awareness. The initiative aims to give voice to visions that offer a new reading of urban landscapes and societies.
We have had an exceptional jury:
asun rodríguez montejano. Comisaria
Elba Benítez. Galería Elba Benítez
Carlos Garaicoa. Artista
Javier Aparicio. Galería El Chico
Paco de Blas. Gestor Cultural
Carlos Alvarez. Editor. Piece with Artist
Silvia Hengstenberg. ART U READY y The Sibarist
After carefully analysing each proposal received, we are pleased to announce the names of the artists selected in the first call for emerging artists,
‘Thinking the city’.
There has been a very high standard and it has not been easy to make the decision.
The shortlisted artists are (in alphabetical order):
Carme Aliaga Perera
Daniel Barrio
Sebastián Bayo
Paula Botella Andreu
Solange Contreras Pavez
Julia Grunberg
Stefanie Herr
Delfina Inés Giacomo y Wanda Acevedo
Rodrigo Moreno
Mina Nogueira
Chema Rodríguez
Dayana Trigo
Built by the Marquis of Casa Jiménez in the mid-19th century, it is located in the central courtyard of a stately building in the Justicia neighbourhood