–
Under the skylight of the Lucernario Room of the Almudí PalaceIn Murcia, you can already see the photographs of the French multidisciplinary artist Sophie calle. Specifically, those of his series The Angels: a score of black and white images with which the restless Gallic creator –who also writes and is an audiovisual producer– offers a portrait of American society –and, in particular, of the Californian city–, through different characters.
Curated this time by Carolina Parra and Nacho Ruiz, co-directors of the Murcian gallery T20, Calle (Paris, 1953) has exhibited throughout his career in such relevant spaces as the Center Georges Pompidou in the French capital, at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, at the Palais des Beaux -Arts in Brussels, at the Museum of Sao Paulo in Brazil, at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, at the Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg, in the Netherlands or the Museum of Modern Art in Bahia, in Brazil. In addition, he has represented his country at the Venice Biennale and is featured in some of the world’s great art collections. She is, therefore, an artist of international stature and proven talent whose works will be available at the Almudí until March.
The presence of Calle in the Sala Lucernario is possible thanks to the efforts of Parra and Ruiz and the program ‘Cultural Reagents’, which gave those responsible for T20 the possibility of launching four artistic exhibitions; is, The Angels, is the second sample of this cycle. The first, Minimum Concept-Artillery, gathered in this same space, and during last November, photographs, paintings, sculptures and artistic installations made by a total of 15 artists whose dynamics ranged from minimalism to concept art.
The artist
Sophie Calle has made her own life, her privacy, her impressions and experiences the starting point of her creations. In this sense, “her identity is atomized, becomes multiple, by putting herself at stake and making herself her artistic subject: Sophie Calle exposes herself as if she were another person who had nothing to do with her,” they explain those responsible for the sample. “Fiction and reality, looking and being looked at, the public and the private, desires and the impossibility of realizing them are some of the places from where the author of the work speaks”, they point out about the French. Black and white photography, video, installation or color photography are the techniques he employs “masterfully” to achieve an end of overwhelming intensity.
– .
