Group show /
galerie Estrany - de la Mota Barcelona [es]

from December 16, 2005 to March 04, 2006

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Related work(s) :
de Nacho Vegas a Francesc Ruiz

El mundo como lo imagino o como me temo que es ("The World as I Imagine it or how I am Afraid it is") is an invention, an emotional approach to such notions as reality and context. Taking this as a starting point, one can easily recognize access to familiar notions, such as the romantic thought according to which artists create a world of their own through their work. However, this is not what this exhibition aims at showing. What it does aim at showing is the world as we apprehend it, as we know it, as we enjoy it, as we suffer it. Thus, the artists selected take reality as a starting point, a reality shaped by images from the media, style magazines, or their everyday life. This very last notion is always present as the place of observation. It is indeed the cornerstone of different works that share the same intention: to raise an opinion on that which has been observed. Opinions may take the form of severe critics or may be just recreational, and will anyway derive into a new creation, a possible invention which will be more or less utopic and transcendental.



Bearing this in mind, it has been considered the interest lying in the fact that some of the works were created in the very same space they are exhibited. This option has given artists the opportunity to find in it little spaces to create their own world, assuming in this occasion all the romanticism lying in the idea. The immediacy of drawings is one of the principles working which is most clearly perceived in this exhibition. The particular way in which each and every work is presented, the different dynamics of the artists when developing their projects and, in short, the entire process of the exhibition, reveal the existence of many different ways to approach matters of inescapable complexity.