AIR Exhibition
There is Nothing Outside the Text
by Carlos Llavata
I am not a guy of big words but this occasion deserves an exception. When I say text I mean it, I am not saying language or its evolution. Let’s take an example from the huge wide internet range of information and its monotony. How we are write in it. The writing is becoming the main form of communication and even the real experience; we invent new contractions and new pronunciation, shortcuts and long cuts, a new codex and forms, new realities appears in front of the visual avalanche of the network, unreachable abstraction!
In this exhibition the desire of representing a rational the real world issues through the text on canvas as painting itself runs with a compromise of resting from visual imaginary and aesthetics remarked in the words of St. John: “Words made flesh”. In the other hand, I believe that art has no the need to be legitimize but the industry need those parameters and the codex witch articulates a way of production and evaluation, yes it does, like the label, who’s shadow will always be besides the art piece, the label who say about what you are seeing, the label guilty of someone crossing on, between you and the art piece itself, anxious to check who’s the artist, medium, size…and the year of it, interrupting your contemplation of that art piece at that moment, the label who categorize the level of production(oil on canvas, acrylic on canvas….), the label who says who is in charge (category of the artist))…the label in the pure communion with the real and understandable world, the label as the document which links the ideal with the material, the document as the value of things. That is the ironic confluence of the issue here, an experience only can be remembered but never reproduce, well I am convinced that many of the art consumers likes to contemplate more the label than the art piece itself, but that’s another history… or maybe not.
Bio
Carlos Llavata (b.1964 Valencia, Spain) is a visual and performance independent artist who works in Madrid, Spain and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). A graduate of Fine Arts University in Valencia, Spain and later, The Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Amsterdam. He took part in around 90 collective events, mostly performances, and had 6 solo shows.
Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2014
Date of Exhibition
1st – 10th Sep 2014
Opening
1st Sep 2014 , 8.00pm
Venue
Lostgens’ Contemporary Art Space
