Presents its fourth series of exhibitions
Lili Dujourie, Elena del Rivero,
Carolina Silva, and Lily van der Stokker
Opening: 27 March 2010
Avenida de Lorquí, s/n.
30562, Ceutí (Murcia)
Tel: (+34) 868923132
info [at] laconservera.org
This latest series of exhibitions, entirely produce by La Conservera, features solo shows by artists Lili Dujourie (Belgium-1941), Carolina Silva (Spain-1975) and Lily van der Stokker (Holland-1954). At the same time, La Conservera and Espacio AV are working together again to host two concurrent exhibitions by Elena del Rivero (Spain-1949).
These four artists share common concerns and interests. Though coming from different generations, they all present works revolving around notions of horizontality, the relationship between experience and nature, the oneiric and the memory. The four exhibitions produced by La Conservera explore the actual exhibition space itself, allowing for a unique, enveloping and mysterious sensorial experience. The work of these artists provides a new and silent perspective on the often less recognised practice of women artists.
La Conservera has published individual catalogues for these exhibitions.
Elena del Rivero
A Drawing Fallen From The Sky
Elena del Rivero is presenting the installation A Drawing Fallen From The Sky. The installation represents the Andromeda Galaxy as if fallen onto the ground of the exhibition space. The work is the continuation of a series of installations titled Celestial Holes (the oculi so often seen in medieval cathedrals that show the passing of the firmament above). Made with sequins, pearls and glitter -elements del Rivero had previously used in her works on paper- this installation carries this series one step further by incorporating sound from the town of Ceutí in real time.
This installation is conceived in conjunction with the artist’s exhibition at Espacio AV titled Flying Drawings as a single project.
Carolina Silva
Círculo ilusionistas
Silva’s exhibition consists of two pieces. Sombras de duda is a video installation in a dark circular space of 11 meters in diameter which houses a rotating projection system that projects a constant circular movement onto the wall. The video-projection consists of an animation featuring pencil-drawn children appearing like ghosts in the space.
Agua Eléctrica is a closed and claustrophobic room; the only way out is a 60 cm circular hole in the wall opposite the entrance door. A glass ladder leads to the hole, acting as a kind of bridge between this space and the outside. The room remains in darkness, with one odd ray of light entering through the hole. This light rotates in a circular motion, sweeping the inside.
A third installation, titled Todas las voces muertas, is activated for one hour at the opening and closing of La Conservera everyday. Given the magical nature of this installation, neither its location nor its features are revealed. Visitors will have to discover it for themselves.
Lily van der Stokker
Flower Floor Painting
For her first solo show in Spain Lily van der Stokker has created her first floor-based work, something of a personal challenge. It is a huge painting measuring 40 x 14 metres and crawls up the perimeter wall to a height of 1.5 metre. The motifs consist of a number of gigantic flowers made in light fluorescent tones. Flower Floor Painting continues the invasive quality of her wall paintings on architecture. Seen from the outside, in courtyard 2, this monumental painting seems like an artificial garden cloistered inside an architectural interior. To create it, the artist required 20 days and the assistance of 18 Fine Arts students from the Region of Murcia.
Lili Dujourie
For her first solo sculpture exhibition in Spain, Lili Dujourie presents five new sculptures titled Maelstrom. Handmade with papier-mâché are a new medium for her. These sculptures are reminiscent of organic forms springing from the ground as if roots winding around themselves and take their names from the Norwegian maritime maelstroms. Along with this works, placed on shelves placed around the room’s perimeter, Memories of Hands, 2007 is comprised of six fired clay pieces made with subtle undulating forms.
Towards the back we see the 7-screen video installation Il fait dimanche sur la mer, 2009. It consists of 7 synchronised video screens, each one of them displaying projections of the 24 hours of one day in the week in the seafront in Ostend in March 2009.
In the second floor we find one of this artist’s most important and seminal pieces: Jeu de Dames, 1987. Made in marble and velvet, it contains all the vocabulary that Lili Dujourie would later develop.
La Conservera
Contemporary Art Center
Avenida de Lorquí, s/n.
30562, Ceutí (Murcia).
Tel.: (+34) 868923132
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www.laconservera.org/compartir/laconservera_RPRESS_SERIES4.pdf
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