The Sound and the Fury, by Pablo Genovés
19/12/2014.
Exhibition. [MAD] Spain. 21/11/2014 - 04/02/2015
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
The exhibition "The Sound and the Fury" is comprised of a selection of works made since 2009 by Pablo Genovés (Madrid, 1959), a total of 38 photographic works and a video (his first foray into this format) that the artist transform as tribute to William Faulkner in his last exhibition.
Los Espejos y el Mar, 2012. 117 x 103 cm. Digigraphie on baryta paper. The Sound and the Fury, by Pablo Genovés. Image © Pablo Genovés, courtesy of Sala Canal Isabel II. Click above to see larger image.
Cosmology, 2013. 160 x 160 cm. Digigraphie sobre papel baritado. Digigraphie on baryta paper. The Sound and the Fury, by Pablo Genovés. Image © Pablo Genovés, courtesy of Sala Canal Isabel II. Click above to see larger image.
Lancret, 2014. 100 x 103 cm. Digigraphie on baryta paper. The Sound and the Fury, by Pablo Genovés. Image © Pablo Genovés, courtesy of Sala Canal Isabel II. Click above to see larger image.
Templo del Sol, 2013. 102 x 122 cm. Digigraphie on baryta paper. The Sound and the Fury, by Pablo Genovés. Image © Pablo Genovés, courtesy of Sala Canal Isabel II. Click above to see larger image.
Cambios Planetarios, 2014, 80 x 110 cm. Digigraphie on baryta paper. The Sound and the Fury, by Pablo Genovés. Image © Pablo Genovés, courtesy of Sala Canal Isabel II. Click above to see larger image.
Otras Cumbres, 2012. 95 x 122 cm. Digigraphie on baryta paper. The Sound and the Fury, by Pablo Genovés. Image © Pablo Genovés, courtesy of Sala Canal Isabel II. Click above to see larger image.
Cielo e infierno, 2013. 170 x 132 cm. Digigraphie on baryta paper. The Sound and the Fury, by Pablo Genovés. Image © Pablo Genovés, courtesy of Sala Canal Isabel II.
Tormenta Solar, 2011. 170 x 107 cm. Digigraphie on baryta paper. The Sound and the Fury, by Pablo Genovés. Image © Pablo Genovés, courtesy of Sala Canal Isabel II.
Selected pictures belong to three of the most significant series of his production between 2009 and 2014: Precipitados Precipitates 2008, Cronología del ruido, Chronology of noise 2011 and Antropoceno, Anthropocene 2012. The works are a bright group of issues on which the author continues working.
Genoves "appropriates" of photographs taken around the first third of the twentieth century, collecting imposing buildings of singular buildings (palaces, theaters, libraries, churches or museums) erected mostly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He acquired them at flea markets and antique shops throughout Europe and later combine them with other images by reconvirtiendolas digital techniques in a hybrid that produces a new image, a new life, a new meaning, a new story.
The landmarks he features are actually fictional; he combines aspects of different structures to elicit the strongest sense of what the viewer expects in a palace, church, or library. But these typical spaces are seen in a state of active destruction, as manufactured by the artist. The black and white photographs in the series show these spaces inundated with natural elements such as water, ice, and sand. In Cronología del Ruido, industrial machinery is also incorporated as a source of physical ruin and as the visual evidence of the remains of a flood. The photographs can be read as an inquiry into signs of memory, with symbols of both a collective aesthetic past, and his own recent explorations as an artist. His work is therefore the result of a continuous process of redefinition.
Alicia Murría, curator of the exhibition, looking dive into the creative world of Genoese, who continues to investigate issues such as the transience of time and the fragility of memory.
It has been edited, complementing the exhibition, a bilingual catalog (Spanish and English), with texts by the curator and the art critic Santiago Olmo.
Where.- Sala Canal de Isabel II. Calle Santa Engracia, 125, Madrid. Spain.
When.- until 22 March 2015.
