July 18 September 26, 07
A collective exhibition by surrealist artists from Americas Southern Cone (from different generations) who work through the Sonámbula Internet platform.
Irradiated by the topicality and dynamism of Surrealism, Sonámbula arose in mid-2005 as a space of diffusion, documentation and exchange of artistic creation for Latin Americans that, whether near or far, participate in surrealist activities. Considering the publications, magazines, concepts, developments, formations, break-ups, convergences, divergences, expressions and movements of the different groups and individuals, Sonámbula integrates the work and thinking of its collaborators. Initially using the Internet as a platform of independent dissemination, Sonámbula wants to contribute to reflection on and awareness of the polymorphous surrealist activity linked to Latin America. An extensive activity encompassing several generations. Despite its still brief existence, this Internet portal has become an unavoidable reference regarding the present-day dynamism of surrealist aesthetics in Latin America, making use of the advantages of new Net-based communication formats for exchanging ideas and the virtual exhibition of works. The number of artists working in this surrealist group has progressively increased and now totals more than forty from practically all Latin American countries.
Structure of the exhibition:
An important part of the exhibitions structure is the Sonámbula website, which the public can access in real time inside the exhibition hall. Due to the collaboration of artists from different generations in this platform, we will find a highly varied exhibition as regards techniques, formats, materials… in short, very different interpretations of surrealism. In one room we can see a document of the performance carried out in the Dominican Republic in 2003 by the artist Pastor de Moya (we also have other pieces belonging to him such as artists books). In another room, the exhibition organiser has made a selection of works including collages by Konrad, Enrique Lechuga and Ludwig Zeller; drawings by Aldo Alcota; as well as canvasses by the artists Suzana Wald, Rik Lina, Jorge Leal-Labrín and Anasor ed Searom. The exhibition also features the EM sound project, undertaken in Chile in 2001 by Iñaki Muñoz, in which he applies the surrealist aesthetic corpus to experimental music.
The exhibition also includes (like the other exhibitions by surrealist groups held in the Granell Foundation in 2005) a documentary appendix featuring different kinds of materials: documentation related to other Sonámbula contributors whose works are not included in this exhibition both material related to exhibitions of the plastic artists collaborating in this portal and literary publications by surrealist artists that use this medium.
