2016.04.29
2016.05.28
Opening
Studio
CarrerasMugica is pleased to present HANGING OUT WITH SOME FRIENDS I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, Angela Palacios's first exhibition in the gallery's studio, where she shows eleven paintings from a series of fifty she is working on, from the 29th of April until the 4th of June.
In 2013 I asked J to send me from Dublin the waxes I used for the paintings I had started there, as it was impossible to find them on my return.
paintings I had started there, as they were impossible to find when I returned. In the parcel he included a postcard of a young gymnast exercising. What I saw was a mountain.
In this project he works with two types of images. On the one hand, images that belong to the context of fashion: they are particularly seductive on a visual level, they carry multiple references and have a great power to influence our conception of the body. And, on the other hand, classical representations, constituted in canons that have established an atavistic imaginary that we continue to use.
In this work, Hanging out with some friends I've never seen before, the artist carries out a particular revision of the imaginary around the representation of the body. From the visual, the conceptual and/or the emotional, her obsession and purpose in these paintings-studies is not the mere representation of the human figure, but the re-interpretation of another figure or form different from the one she starts from. The aim is to provoke a certain estrangement in the image and at the same time to modify its strategies of communication.
These images are used as a device for re-constructing and revising imaginaries. Although the elements they represent are those that make up his personal imagery, I want them to form a common one. To this end, I make use of the inevitable load of universal symbols - aesthetic, political, social - that the images used carry in their interpretation.
In 2013 I asked J to send me from Dublin the waxes I used for the paintings I had started there, as it was impossible to find them on my return.
paintings I had started there, as they were impossible to find when I returned. In the parcel he included a postcard of a young gymnast exercising. What I saw was a mountain.
In this project he works with two types of images. On the one hand, images that belong to the context of fashion: they are particularly seductive on a visual level, they carry multiple references and have a great power to influence our conception of the body. And, on the other hand, classical representations, constituted in canons that have established an atavistic imaginary that we continue to use.
In this work, Hanging out with some friends I've never seen before, the artist carries out a particular revision of the imaginary around the representation of the body. From the visual, the conceptual and/or the emotional, her obsession and purpose in these paintings-studies is not the mere representation of the human figure, but the re-interpretation of another figure or form different from the one she starts from. The aim is to provoke a certain estrangement in the image and at the same time to modify its strategies of communication.
These images are used as a device for re-constructing and revising imaginaries. Although the elements they represent are those that make up his personal imagery, I want them to form a common one. To this end, I make use of the inevitable load of universal symbols - aesthetic, political, social - that the images used carry in their interpretation.
