OBSESSIONS. Exemples de redundància i persistència cíclica
OBSESSIONS. Exemples de redundància i persistència cíclica (Examples of Redundancy and Cyclical Persistence) proposes an exercise in (artistic) exhibitionism that makes visible certain mechanisms of constant repetition in art practice.
Starting from a positive, enthusiastic reading of obsession —something necessary as a matter of intensity and of faith in what one does or wants to do— the series explores the obsessive behaviour of certain artists in defining their work, their concerns and their interests in the field of art. Repetitive, nonconformist attitudes that lead them, regardless of the possible success or failure of their work, and even irrespective of its social or commercial acceptance, to the (almost pathological) reiteration of the same ideas over and over again.
L’Aparador of the Museu Abelló is an exhibition space without preestablished rules, timetables or codes, just like obsessive human behaviour itself, which cannot submit to the control of reason. In this sense, it thus becomes a point of display and of encounter between author and viewer, in order to share publicly and unashamedly recurring obsessions that define the role of art and of the artist in a society too rigid to accept and enjoy such behaviour.
Obsessions includes the work of twelve artists who, beyond their specific themes and/or forms (from drawing, video and installation to performance), find in obsessive compulsion one of their main driving forces. In short, an ordered collection of examples of redundancy and cyclical persistence, displayed as a critical confrontation with the public and their own obsessions.
Website:
obsessionsblog.org
INTERVENTIONS
1st Intervention
From 20 July to 13 September
ZINK TANK
Àlbum de Pedro
2nd Intervention
From 20 September to 15 November
LUCÍA LARA
La caja de Pandora
3rd Intervention
SAMUEL LABADIE
4th Intervention
From 1 February to 28 March
FITO CONESA
Sorològic. Fragments arqueològics per a un possible imaginari acústic
5th Intervention
From 11 April to 22 June
EFÉN ÁLVAREZ
Un guió anticipat de la performance d´un mateix
6th intervention
From 3 July to 12 September 2008
FRAN MEANA
1=1
Indicis de transparència i reflex d’un mur
7th intervention
From 2 October to 12 December 2008
ANA GARCÍA PINEDA
Romperlo todo y que haga tiroriro
8th intervention
From 18 December 2008 to 22 February 2009
FerranElOtro
Maria Ramió a ferranElOtro, jo a ElOtro, mia a ElOtro, miapròpia a ferranElOtro, apropiació de ferranElOtro
9th intervention
DANIEL JACOBY
Pdtpe20dfelp100a
From 20 February to 3 May 2009
10th intervention
From 8 May to 19 July 2009
SERGI BOTELLA
La Lògia Bobby Crawford
11th intervention
From 24 July to 27 September 2009
RUBÉN GRILO
«Realmente algo no marcha bien, y si por algún tiempo algo hubiera marchado bien, ahora ocurren cosas espantosas»
12th intervention
From 2 October to 20 December 2009
JORDI MITJÀ
Suite per un epicentre desplaçat