PARATEXT nº3 - Hangar.org, Barcelona

Luis Guerra, Mario Santamaría, Bea Stach y Kaspar Wimberley/Susanne Kudielka

Este nombre, Paratext, esconde una programación mensual de presentaciones de los artistas residentes en Hangar de larga y corta duración, así como de las residencias internacionales, siempre en miércoles, de 19.00 a 21.00h. Varios artistas presentarán en formatos no convencionales proyectos concretos o partes de su trabajo. Las sesiones son siempre abiertas al público con el propósito de posibilitar la interacción con los propios artistas.

La próxima sesión de Paratext tendrá lugar el miércoles 13 de mayo en Hangar a las 19h. Luis Guerra, Mario Santamaría, Bea Stach y Kaspar Wimberley/Susanne Kudielka estarán presentando sus proyectos. Todos/as ellos/as han sido residentes en el marco de la beca de intercambio 2015 para proyectos artísticos entre Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg, Alemania) y Barcelona (Cataluña, España).

The Act & The Tracer | Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

 5 Mar - 24 May 2015
The Act and the tracer. Querungen, WKV, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany

"The Act & the Tracer" is an exhibition produced by Mario Santamaria and Luis Guerra, both visual artists based in Barcelona, living and working in Stuttgart as stipendiaries of a new exchange studentship between Catalonia and Baden-Württemberg, based on a cooperation between Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, HANGAR Centro de Arte and Goethe Institute Barcelona. 

Mario Santamaria bases his practice in the study of the phenomenon of the contemporary observer. Starting from a specific historical event, Santamaria researches about the contradictions of the transparency, visibility and access system that the technological rhetoric seems to have consolidated at the beginning of the 21st century. In this exhibition, he articulates a series of items in relation to the incident occurred on December 11, 2009, when the owning company of GeoEye1, considered the best provider of satellite imagery at that time, recognized an irregularity in the satellite antenna affecting their data sent to earth.

Luis Guerra presents a sub-set from a larger project called Anarchistory of Action (2014-2017). He conceives his practice as an ongoing process in which the creative event and the ephemeral instant of its manifestation, sometimes, are more important than the possible trace. As such, his works may have not been documented or may just exist under a subtle memory, a tale, or even as a whisper. The Act (2015) works within that condition of the inexistent, a low degree of appearance, an abysmal deed without reason and without justification.

http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/programm/2015/stipendium/