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Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Persona, foto, copia by Julia Spínola, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 24 March to 18 June 2023, as a part of Z Gallery programme.
Texts: Marc Navarro, Catalina Lozano
On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition Persona, foto, copia, the auditorium of the museum will host a conversation between the artist Julia Spínola and the Chief Curator of Artium Museoa, Catalina Lozano.
2 June, 6 pm
Conversation between Julia Spínola and Catalina Lozano
Auditorium. Free entrance until full capacity
Reservations: 945 20 90 20 and artium.eus
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition San Simón 62, which has held in Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 24 March to 18 June 2023, as a part of Z Gallery programme.
Text: Sara Torres
This edition has been published to mark the exhibition Flux Cored by Sahatsa Jauregi produced at Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, which was held in Vitoria-Gasteiz from 31 March to 3 Septembre 2023.
Text: Clara López Menéndez
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Other Recent Examples by Alejandro Cesarco held at Artium Museoa from 24 March to 24 September 2023.
Text: Thomas Boutoux, Alejandro Cesarco, Beatriz Herráez
Edited on the occasion of the exhibition Bilduma Hau Colección. Elemenraty Movements (1950-2000) at Artium Museoa.
Text: Thomas Boutoux, Beatriz Herráez, Enrique Martínez Goikoetxea, Elena Roseras, Sergio Rubira
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The Lumière Institute in Lyon represents the invention that revolutionised art and spectacle, not only as a historical symbol in its own place of origin, but through its daily work to collect, recover and disseminate cinema as a whole, as it should be, beyond time and borders, with current events and historical perspective in continuous communication.
Organised by Basque Filmoteca
On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition Bilduma Hau Colección. Elementary Movements (1950-2000), the auditorium of the museum will host a presentation by the curators and the artists.
31 March, 6 pm
Auditorium. Free entrance until full capacity
Reservations: 945 20 90 20 and artium.eus
On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition Other Recent Examples by Alejandro Cesarco, the auditorium of the museum will host a conversation focuses on editing processes between Alejandro Cesarco, Thomas Boutoux, Beatriz Herráez and Catalina Lozano.
24 March, 12 am
Conversation on editing practices
Auditorium. Free entrance until full capacity
Reservations: 945 20 90 20 and artium.eus
The three words that make up the title of this exhibition by Julia Spínola (Madrid, 1979), Persona, foto, copia (Person, Photo, Copy), typify the concerns and desires contained in the pieces that comprise it, or perhaps it is better to say that they form it, making it emerge within a space and in a place that are also part of it. These pieces unrigorously and non-retrospectively encompass a decade in the artist’s work. If anything, the selection brings together existing works with others produced for this occasion, thereby leading to continuities, as well as new temporalities, through the relationships they generate.
Spínola’s work somehow surrounds the notion of person, of being a person, of “personhood” and its ontological implications beyond what is understood to be characteristically human. It is an interest in exploring the qualities of a person, which are perhaps those vibrations that give them the capacity to affect and be affected. Moreover, light (from the Greek phos, photo) for Spínola is a way of also producing space, of creating place as matter that we enter into and become a part of. Spínola abounds in her own work, and this abundance is the meaning of the word “copy”, as compilation, as copious. The works often stem from a radical change in scale of small objects that have awakened pleasurable sensations in the artist.
The vibrations on the surfaces of the works and variations of light on the different levels of sharpness that these produce in the contours act as a kind of focusing and blurring effect. The silkscreen prints appearing on the walls of the space also demand that we look at them from various distances, as objectives and surfaces in which to immerse ourselves, as representations and as a milieu that can encompass everything our optical system is capable of embodying.
Julia Spínola’s work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Fundació Miró (Barcelona, 2020), ARTIATX (Bilbao, 2020), CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid, 2018) and Halfhouse (Barcelona, 2016), among other institutions. She was a recipient of a DAAD residency (Berlin) and won the El Ojo Crítico de Artes Plásticas Award from Radio Nacional de España in 2013.
This exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain (CRAC Alsace).
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