FROM THURSDAY 14/7 ON SUNDAY 6/11
VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
deserved Carmen Calvo an individual exhibition at the IVAM, there is no doubt. And the awarding of the Julio González Award 2022 —an award granted by the Generalitat Valenciana at the proposal of the IVAM since the year 2000—has been the hook that has propitiated it. attention, she is the third woman to receive it (the first valencian), and because the last two to do so have also been women, Annette Messager 2018 I Mona Hatoum al 2020. Precisely feminism is one of the elements that permeates Calvo's work and will occupy a prominent place within this exhibition, his critical look at the oppression and inequality of women is crossed by surrealism and pop art, for play and irony, for criticism and the poetic. The slope of gender has intensified in the last decade through the use of rescued and intervened photographic images that show us, very directly, to silenced women, mistreated in their everyday work, festive or family. Faces hidden and oppressed under fabrics, sheets, strings or enigmatic remains of toys.
Sculpture, object, installation, paint, ceramics and photography. The exhibition reviews the artist's main lines of research from the late 1960s to the present day, which sell very marked for the recovery and intervention of rejected images and objects that activate mechanisms such as sleep, the record, the design or the. Calvo often works with photographs or fragments of magazines interspersed with the ones he makes collage, and with small pieces of ceramics or other materials distributed around the space as signs to decipher. Precisely this exhibition begins its journey with a selection of works made during the eighties in plaster and baked clay assembled in a patient exercise of archaeological collection and classification, works that evoke vestiges recovered from ancestral writings. The central ship of the Gallery 1 will recreate the artist's workshop, a variegated scene in which works of art coexist with shelves, nines, magazines and fragments of various objects and mannequins; images and references that make up a cabinet of wonders from which his works will emerge, twenty-nine of them belonging to the IVAM collection. AU
