'Museos en Blanco', by José Manuel Ballester

On September 8. opens the first solo exhibition of the artist José Manuel Ballester in the exhibition space of Ivorypress, in which his latest works will be displayed.

'Museos en Blanco' por José Manuel Ballester. Courtesy of Ivorypress.

'Museos en Blanco', by José Manuel Ballester, is an invitation to "empty our museums": the real ones and those we carry inserted in our memory to raise new approaches that are able to address both our past and our future and count on the new tools created which will surely change our position towards the outside world and ourselves. No museum is able to bind what it really is and represent the culture. They are nothing more than spaces to guard the most representative that history offers us every time. A fragmented History, and in most cases, decontextualized, a window that allows us to look into a blurry past and that cyclically goes through revisions and is rethought, especially in moments such as the present, where new social models are being shaped sheltered under the new technologies.

There is a new visual target that aims to create another reality: a virtual world at the service of our concerns, desires and whims. Another reality that can pretend to be like ours, therefore able to fool all of our perceptual systems. In addition, the artist says:

'In these circumstances it is no longer necessary to have direct contact with the object that shapes our emotions, in consequence, matter and illusion are closer than ever.'

The selection of work is completed with a cabinet displaying small-format drawings and publications. Museums in White can be visited at Ivorypress until November 7, 2015.

CREDITS.-

Museos en Blanco, by José Manuel Ballester.
Opening.- September 8, 2015, 19:00 h.
Venue.- Ivorypress, C / Comandante Zorita 48, 28020 Madrid.
Dates.- from the 8th of September until the 7th of November, 2015.

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JOSÉ MANUEL BALLESTER

José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960) is a painter and a photographer. Degree in Fine Arts, 1984. Since then he has won various awards and scholarships. He has participated in a lot of exhibitions all over the world, including the international ARCO fair for the last ten years. His work forms part of the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and it has been exhibited in Beijing, Canada, New York, London, Sao Paulo, France, Germany, Tokyo and Colombia. First Prize in Painting in the XVIII Biennial of Alexandria and the National Print Award, 1998.Premio Nacional de Fotografía 2010.

His artistic career began with a particular attention on the technique of the Italian and Flemish painting of the XV and XVIII centuries. Since 1990, he started to blend painting and photography. We can highlight, between his numerous exhibitions, Lugares de paso, Valencia, 2003; Setting Out, New York, 2003; or Habitación 523, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2005; and recently Fervor de metrópolis, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2011; La abstracción de la realidad, Sala Alcalá 31, Community of Madrid and DA2, Salamanca, 2011; and Espacios ocultos in the Spanish Academy, Rome, 2012. He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in art fairs as ARCO, Art Chicago, Artforum Germany, Paris Photo and Art Miami and in cities such as Dallas, Paris, Miami, São Paulo, Dubai, Beijing, Shanghai, Toronto and many others. And some more current ones like: Gli Spazi Nascosti di José Manuel Ballester Nei Palazzi di Genova, Museo di Palazzo Reale e Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa, Italy (2017), Paisajes encontrados: El Bosco, El Greco, Goya, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain (2016), Museos en blanco, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain (2015).

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