Exhibition: 08.11.2018 – 15.12.2018

Opening: 08.11.2018, 19:30

“Formas para un mundo perfecto” – Exhibition of PSJM

LOCATION: C/ Almadén, 13, 28014 Madrid/SP

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Blanca Soto gallery is delight to present the sixth exhibition of PSJM in Madrid. PSJM presents “Formas para un mundo perfecto”(“Shapes for a perfect world”), PSJM presents three reliefs of a court produced with noble materials, as the wood of mahogany or the bronze and the stainless steel. These sculptures of wall accompany of pages of a fictitious diary in which there are narrated the motivations and creative processes that help to prepare these beautiful forms. in PSJM’s work different disciplines come together: literature, sculpture, design and philosophical reflection. “Formas para un mundo perfecto” (2017): “There’s no injustice in the world. Humans relationships comes in harmony and in peace. After the globalization there’s nothing to fight for, nothing to criticize, nothing to be worry about it. Finally we can get back to the the comforting and beautiful shapes”.

PSJM is a creativity team  composed by Cynthia Viera (Las Palmas G.C., 1973) and Paul San José (Mieres, 1969). PSJM appears as a ” marca de arte ” (” a brand of art”), appropriating this way of the procedures and strategies of the capitalism advanced to subvert his symbolic structures, a requirement to exclude the traditional suppositions on the artistic action.

PSJM has been included in the 100 most representative artists of the political international art in Art and Agenda: Political Art and Activism (Gestalten, Berlin, 2011). Also it has been included in Younger than Jesus. Artist Directory. The essential handbook to the future of art (New York: Phaidon-New Museum, 2009) and Comes Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design (New York: Princeton Architectural Press N.Y., 2014, between(among) other publications.His(her,your) works are present in numerous international samples as Beyond the Tropics, in the context of 56 ª Biennial show of Venice (2015), Hic et Nunc, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (2014), One Shot!, Museu Brasileiro gives Sculpture, São Paulo (2014), Off Street, To Foundation, London (2009), The Real Royal Trip … by the Arts, PS1-MOMA, New York (2003, in collaboration with The Dog and Aitor Méndez), and others of state area as Prophetia, Foundation Miro, Barcelona (2015) or PIGS, Artium, Vitoria (2016).

Exhibition: 18.10.2018 – 11.11.2018

Opening: 18.10.2018, 18:00

“Biotopías” – Exhibition of PSJM with Basurama, Luna Bengoechea, Carmela García y Santiago Morilla

LOCATION: Gabinete Literario de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Plaza de Carrasco
135002 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/ES

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An exhibition to bring environmental problems into the public consciousness 

Four artists present their work in the Literary Cabinet of the Gran Canaria curated by PSJM with the aim of bringing environmental issues into public consciousness. The exhibition presents the works of Basurama, Luna Bengoechea, Carmela García y Santiago Morilla, all of them are actively focusing on ecological problems.

“Biotope”, in biology and ecology, refers to an area of uniform environmental conditions that provides vital space for a set of flora and fauna: a living environment. The term “Biotopias” is a neologism that PSJM proposes to poetically characterize aesthetic responses to the situation of the planetary urgency of taking action. Biotopías includes the meaning of biotope, but also relates to the “space theory” of Foucault in which, the French philosopher was distinguishing three classes of spaces: the Topías (the real and daily spaces), the Utopias (the ideal, not (real) spaces) and the Heterotopías (the real spaces, but separated from the daily life).

All the pieces of the exhibition have been created specifically for the occasion.

Four exhibitions:

In Love We Trash. Las Palmas GC it is the last one of a series of projects in which the group Basurama uses the plastic of waste to generate inflatable spaces. Two icons of the consumerist society, the carrier bag of the supermarket and the plastic of packing, are turned into raw material to build a big space based on air produced by fans.

The artist Moon Bengoechea presents ‘Elaeis guineensis’ shows a series of drawings combined with a light installation. It draws our attention to the loss of biodiversity, the disappearance of the habitat of species. Furthermore, it questions the environmental impacts to the pollution of the waters and the air provoked by manmade big fires and by the plantations of palm oil. His work is centered on discovering clean and elegantly finished poetics with certain aspects related to the many risks of our society.

The photographer Carmela García brings the ecofeminism point of view to the exhibition. Her series ‘Paradise’, realized in 2003,  wrapped one of the walls of the room from soil to roof, brings the poetical proclamation of a new world.

‘Locative Breathing’ is the work of Santiago Morilla where a sidecar welded to a bicycle consists of the production of a greenhouse. When visitors walk on the dredge they are closing an autonomous system of breathing. The pipe of breathing connects the mask of the cyclist with the interior of the greenhouse, which acts as a portable filter.

Exhibition: 13.10.2018 – 03.02.2019

“BACKUP” – Solo Exhibition of Seet Van Hout

LOCATION: Kelfkensbos 59, 6511 TB Nijmegen/NL

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Seet van Hout (Nijmegen, 1957) has been working for months on the preparations for her monumental installation BACKUP, which will be on display in the patio of Museum Het Valkhof from 13 October. In her work she visualizes the complexity of memory: how chaos and structure alternate and how we remember and forget. The installation consists on large rolls of cotton with embroidered text fragments, poems, news items and articles that are all about memory. Some texts offer a glimpse into the memory of the artist: Van Hout also processed fragments from her diaries.

The embroidered strips of textile, which she made partly with the help of embroiderers, hang down in the patio of the museum from a height of six meters. The viewer can move through the work and, while wandering between the fragments of text, gets a glimpse of Van Hout’s fascination for human memory. Just as memories are not static, BACKUP has no fixed form. During the exhibition, some cotton bars are rolled up and others are unveiled. In addition, Van Hout complements its installation with newly embroidered texts. Every Wednesday she is working in the museum, where the visitor can follow her own process and ask questions.

The memory is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Van Hout and runs through her oeuvre like a red thread. Since 1996 she has been working on artworks on this theme, under the umbrella title Art of Memory. Contained in textile works, ceramics, paintings, drawings and books Van Hout depicts all possible aspects of the memory. Van Hout’s work is included in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, CODA Apeldoorn and in numerous private and corporate collections.

Exhibition: 26.09.2018 – 20.10.2018 | Opening: 22.09.2018, 18:00

“Standard International # 5: Spatial Manifestation” – Group show with Eberhard Bosslet
LOCATION: GLINT, Glinkastraße 17, 10117 Berlin/DE

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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Eberhard Bosslet, Karsten Konrad, Sabine Hornig, Inken Reinert, Axel Lieber, Andrea Pichl, Tilman Wendland, Flurin Bisig, Ina Weber, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Vanessa Henn, Manfred Pernice, Wanda Stolle, Stephanie Backes

The group exhibition “Standard International # 5: Spatial Manifestation” in the Gründerzeit ensemble GLINT in Berlin-Mitte presents sculptures and site-specific installations that stand for a characteristic material aesthetics, especially of the Berlin reunification period. In the works shown here, spatial experiences of these years are manifested in artistic forms.

Eberhard Bosslet is an established contemporary German artist and curator. The objects, he develops visually and aesthetically, refers to ‘concrete art’ whilst at the same time essentially maintaining their original functional element. After their “staged” presentation all materials of his artworks are to be given back to their original source.

Exhibition: 21.09.2018 – 04.11.2018

LOCATION: Jacob van Maerlantstraat 38340 Damme/Belgium

Seet Van Hout  takes part in the exhibition at ‘IK WORDT’ Stadsfestival Damme. This first annual festival and exhibition will explore the quest of being “in the picture”. Taking place at an old hospital site and church, artists, authors and illustrators will demonstrate how they experience this quest.