Description of the exhibition by Matadero Madrid
From September 1, the artist Moisés Mahiques will be in charge of the hall of the Warehouse 11 in the Madrid Matadero. On September 6, the result of his work will be seen, although it will be an intervention that will be constantly changing; the artist will be transforming the exposition as the season progresses.
The lobby of the Warehouse 10, from September 6 will be open to the public the exhibition 10y11, by the photographers Ximena and Sergio. More than fifty photographs, more than one meter high, collect the portraits that these professionals, whose photographs are published by the main national magazines, have done to all the artists who have passed through Matadero Warehouses.
Los otros (The others), by Moisés Mahiques
The proposals of the visual artist Moisés Mahiques are some of the most interesting in the national exhibition scene. Present at ARCO since 2005, Mahiques has been exhibiting in individual and collective exhibitions in Spain and cities such as Berlin, New York, Rome, Moscow, etc. for more than a decade. His work has received numerous recognitions and is present in various collections such as in Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, the Collection General University Complutense of Madrid, Caja Madrid, CAM of Plastic Arts or ABC Collection, among others.
The Moisés concept work has a performative character. Part of a previous material of documentation that goes to develop in the drawing like an action itself. An action that evolves and allows you to approach the narration in a different timeline. With their characteristic black lines, layer on layer, their drawn bodies dissolve, turning their pieces into personal exhibitions. Places of uncertainty where narrative tension is never completely resolved. Lines that make us pull the thread of our emotions to conquer its essence.
"In this work I have taken as a starting point the representation and the concept of alterity The others: which at first is shown different but which is used to perceive our positioning in a given context and to assume who we really are. For each of us, consciously, we represent a certain role within certain group. This specific site, which will be located in the lobby of Warehouse 11, seeks to function as a wall that will dialogue with the viewer to meet with the others, the different characters who make us grimaces and winks, who observe us, who adopt strange postures or cover their faces with their hands in order not to be recognized. Characters that will evolve and mutate into a place to be determined and to question us with their difference’’.
Mosiés Mahiques
10y11, by Ximena and Sergio
Photographers Ximena Garrigues and Sergio Moya met each other with a camera in hand. Four eyes, one shot and more than ten years later they still work together. Essential figures in the Spanish publishing world, they sign portraits in the most relevant national publications. In March of 2017 they approached to Naves Matadero in order to document the experience of the artists who took part of the first season. "And from the first session we understood the magic of the stage. It is a place made to light, that light is born and dies in the same photo. There the natural light moves fast. We have seen photos without making them, photos that were in front of our eyes, but we have savored that movement", they explain. Researchers born of light, gesture and portraiture, throughout their career have immortalized entire peoples, families, regional festivals, street bends, still lifes and all they find impregnated with beauty. But in the portrait is where they really enjoy. Decoding the entrails of the human being with the goal in between.
"The non-verbal dialogue that exists in a portrait is primary, reciprocal and absolute. There is a huge flow of information during the session. Everything begins with a look, the first one. Then, being cautious, the rest of the body. Shortly afterwards a kiss or a handshake. And in the end, the rest, the photograph” they said.
10y11 shows all this and more, because sometimes the portrait is obtained with the first shot and other times when the camera is kept. But in this case, as thieves and dumb witnesses of art, magic has happened in front of them and the result goes through the hall walls to our pupil.
The exhibition, which consists of more than fifty large photographs (more than one meter high), collects the portraits of all the artists who have passed through Matadero warehouses in the last season. The exhibition, located in the lobby of Warehouse 10, will have free access.
