The Municipal Delegation of Culture, Festivals, Historical Heritage and Cultural Capitalism, keeps the two contemporary art exhibitions open to the public as part of its winter programming. ‘The process at the site of the object’, by Antonio Lara, and the group exhibition ‘The landscapes of Archaeology’.
Pescadería Vieja will host until next January 21, the exhibition by the Jerez-born author, Antonio Lara, which can be visited from Tuesday to Friday, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.; On holidays and Mondays, it is closed.
On the other hand, the collective exhibition ‘The landscapes of Archaeology’, in the Archaeological Museum of Jerez, Inaugurated on November 24, it will remain open until February 24, from Tuesday to Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the Market Square.
‘The process at the object site’
The exhibition brings together a collection of oil works that reflect the creative process of Antonio Lara, one of the most relevant authors of current Spanish figurative painting. Antonio Lara Luque, born in Jerez and graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Seville, has numerous mentions, recognitions and prestigious commissions among which is the calendar sponsored by the Maxam Foundation, formerly a Spanish Explosives Foundation created by Alfred Nobel; the 14th Albacete City Fine Arts Biennial Acquisition Prize, in 2022, the Duke of Alba Prize, from the Santa Isabel Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Hungary, as well as the Medal of Honor in the 12th National Painting Competition of the Parliament of La Rioja , in 2021. He has also participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions.
For the art critic Bernardo Palomo, “Antonio Lara’s realism argues for a totally different position from that offered by conventional figurative painting. His work not only briefly transfers the frames of reality; nor does it only express immediate illustrations of what is go; In his painting there is an exercise of introspection, of search, to delve into the physical circumstances that exist so that the gaze not only welcomes what it observes but also raises that which is more hidden and that, truly, externalizes the exact limits of what is and what it would be like if that point of view did not exist. fiction that tricks it and makes it a little different.
On the other hand, as detailed by the Jerez artist Ignacio Estudillo in the exhibition catalogue, “Antonio Lara’s proposal includes a change, a movement from one type of relationship with work to another, being evident in the different languages that range from picture of bunches of grapes to the picture of dry leaves”. As for his method, the Jerez painter ‘has its trade, its learned rituals and its subsequent singularities. Its rules allow building a structure that introduces the coordinates of the objects that appear in the frame.”
‘The landscapes of Archaeology’
This exhibition represents the third edition of the Contemporary Art Exhibition ‘Inside the Museum’, curated by the Jerez artist Luisa Porras, and commemorates the 11th anniversary of the reopening and remodeling of the aforementioned facility. Is about “generate a dialogue focused on the theme of the landscape, with the only certainty that it is a place linked to an ever-changing cultural identity, in permanent construction from ancient times to the present day”, as Juan Manuel López Muñoz states in the exhibition catalogue.
“The works of art on display are the result of a call to create landscapes by rethinking, in today’s context, the archeology and founding myths of the city of Jerez. Each work shows a unique perception, different from what was surely expected, on a collective issue: the impact of culture on nature and vice versa”.
The participating artists in the various modalities are Humberto del Rio, Luisa Porras, Magdalena Murciano, William Bermudo, Juan Antonio Sangil, Miguel Parra, Ignatius Sancho Caparrini, Jaime Pandelet, Ana Pellon Relative, Francisco Barrier, Carmen Driver, Eugenio Tapia, Magdalena Bachelor, Aurora Simo , Maria Jose Dominguez Parreno, Jesus Rosa, Dew Cano Guzman, Humberto Ybarra, Serena Fortin, Fernando Garcia Duran and Pepe Nihil, Diego Periñan, with the collaborations of authors Josefa Parra, Manuel Bernal Romero and Juan Manuel Lopez Munoz.
2024-01-09 15:10:18
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