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CRISE DE IDENTIDADE

23 January – 23 March
First Floor. Rooms 4,5

The exhibition Crise de identidade is curated by Ángel Calvo Ulloa and made up of works by Eugenio Granell, Din Matamoro, Kepa Garraza, Alain Urrutia, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Diego Vites, Kurt Schnitzer (Conrado), Nacho Martín Silva, Tamara Kuselman and Damián Ucieda.
Crise de identidade features a series of plastic artists who, with their different works, develop their vision of individual or collective identity. The restraint shown by certain agents with regard to our anonymity has vanished, based first of all on aspects of public safety, at a time when the worst predictions have come true, and where the need for going unnoticed has become an impossible task. The exhibition is a profound reflection on the origin of the individual as a social construction, or the image we project to the world and in which we unexpectedly do not recognise ourselves.
The work Uno, ninguno y cien mil, which follows Pirandello’s surrealist tendency, serves as a pretext and reflection, in an application of psychoanalysis, in which the individual’s everyday life is suddenly replaced by a series of oneiric situations. This sudden influence is no coincidence, since Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto was relatively recent and because Pirandello’s tendency towards the Theatre of the Absurd was directly related to Alfred Jarry’s work.
Ángel Calvo is a curator and art critic, editor of Dardo Magazine, A*desk and Dardonews. He recently won an award included in the Inéditos 2014 programme organised by La Casa Encendida (Madrid) in order to undertake an exhibition project that can be seen from May onwards.
He organised the public art project Un disparo de advertencia (Lalín, Pontevedra) 2011, Álvaro Negro’s individual exhibition Natureza! Estás soa? In the PALEXCO (A Coruña) 2011, the collective exhibition Welcome to my loft in Ferrol’s Centro Torrente Ballester, 2012, Wily Forza Ingobernable in the FAC (Santiago de Compostela) 2013 and Sssh! Del silencio un lenguaje in Santander’s Galería Nuble, 2013. He coordinated the project Look Up! Natural Porto Art Show in Porto (2010) and in 2011-12 he supervised the project Espacio Sirvent (Vigo). He is currently working on the Diálogos Improbables projects and is the co-curator of the project Afluentes: A figuración na arte galega desde os sesenta for the Novacaixagalicia Foundation and Ferrol City Council. He is a member of the Os Tres group for curating and coordinating Santiago de Compostela’sEspazo Miramemira, with individual exhibitions by Damián Ucieda, Ian Waelder and Pedro Magalhães.