SOLAR at Elga Wimmer PCC
526 West 26th Street, #310
New York, NY 10001
presenting GLOCAL PROPOSALS
I. Eduardo Barcenas: Acts of Silence
13 January - 7 February
Opening Reception Thursday, 15 January, 6-8 p.m.
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II. Miquel Salom: Esperant
10 February - 10 March -EXTENDED THROUGH 14 MARCH 2009
Opening Reception, Thursday, 12 February, 6-8 p.m.
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SPECIAL EVENT at ELGA WIMMER PCC
Richard Garet: Electrochroma
Live Video Performance
Friday 6 March 2009
Reception 7:30 p.m. / Performance 8 p.m. sharp
A video/sound kinetic performance that consists of the manipulation of light in real time through various analog and digital processes that consequently translate the voltage signal produced by the light into sound.
see a 1-minute excerpt of Electrochroma
About Glocal Proposals
Glocal Proposals bring together artists able to identify sensitively with global as well as local influences and circumstances in their artwork. Their capacity to bridge the poles creates a new mode of expression: glocal. Many, if not most, people nowadays live glocal lives led by globalizing factors like air travel, mobile phones, the Internet. It is the artist’s ability to be authentic to his local social and cultural expression while identifying himself, and being identified with, a global arts representation that is key to a successful work of art.
Acts of Silence constitutes Glocal Proposal I and will begin on 13 January 2009, presenting a selection of works by Venezuelan artist, Eduardo Bárcenas. This is Bárcenas’ first solo show in New York City. Benjamin Genocchio wrote in The New York Times about the artist’s 2006 show at SOLAR in East Hampton, “Mr. Bárcenas takes as his theme social and political events in Latin America, though without grandstanding or being too obvious about it. His works are vague and dreamlike, aiming to evoke feelings of loss, tragedy and despair.” The current selection includes paintings and works on paper as well as wire and mixed media box constructions dating between 2000 and present. Bárcenas exposes issues of identity and existence through masks and visages, including self-portrait: “the faces fill you with a sense of overwhelming sadness, even despair, at the thought of such physical pain and suffering”. These emotions and circumstances are veiled and silenced visually and figuratively by the artist’s use of white paint to erase and fragment the forms, or wraps or shrouds that muffle the faces. Genocchio concludes, “To me this is the best kind of social and political art, inviting us to mull the issues it raises rather than telling us what to think”. Bárcenas has exhibited extensively in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the United States. He has been invited twice to exhibit at the Havana Biennial and has won a number of prizes and recognitions for his work, most recently the significant “Alexis Perez Mujica” award in Venezuela.
Glocal Proposal II starts 10 February with Miquel Salom’s recent photographs, a suite titled Esperant [Waiting]. Salom, who is from the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, is an expert manipulator of light and image. The current series captures glowing orbs and colourful spirals that have the power and energy of vortices. Salom’s sensitive manipulation of objects and light has come across in past work, yet it is in this series that the enigma of the image results in an altogether more powerful visual statement. In these photographs, he represents light as we might sense it, as pure colour and energy, but passes beyond to an inner response, transcendental and infinite, that leaves one to meditate on existence, or to use his own words, “centuries…beings and souls, birth, beauty, death…always, always…life.” Miquel Salom began exhibiting in Spain in 1975 and has worked consistently with photography in Europe and the United States where his pieces are in public and private collections. His most recent exhibition at the noted Joan Oliver “Maneu” Galleria d’Art in Mallorca presented photographs from the series Esperant and was accompanied by a 65-page catalogue including a text by renowned Catalan critic, Arnau Puig.