UNTIL SUNDAY 4/4
CARME CENTER. Museum, 2
"If there is no abstraction, no hi ha art modern”. The words of Alfred H. Barr, founder and first director of MoMA, preside over this exhibition that aims to discover a portion of the abstract art that has been made in Valencia during the last fifty years. According to those who know, the abstract current went into decline in the nineties of the last century, but it has risen from the ashes deconstructing itself, as all currents have done throughout history in their search for limits. which, in contemporary art, they have a lot to do with screens and technology, signs of their times. Deconstructing abstraction collects the work of 42 abstract artists who have made a career in the Valencian Community, since the sixties José Mª Yturralde signed the first drawings that were made in Spain with a computer. An IBM 7090 from the Calculation Center of the University of Madrid brought from Switzerland by Isidro Ramos, the first computer science professor in Spain. They would join the project later Soledad Seville, Eusebio Sempere and the art critic Aguilera Cerni; five Valencians who paved the way for the confluence between art and technology.
The brush sets the standard in seventy percent of the works in this exhibition, which starts from the most classic abstract expressionism. But it also incorporates photography, installation, video, performance, screens, sheet metal or methacrylate in pieces that are becoming digital thanks to technologies such as drones or Artificial Intelligence. We find names like those of Inma Feminine, Oliver Johnson, Moisés Mañas, Nico Munuera, Martin Noguerol, Felipe Pantone, Cake Vilabelda o Nelo Vinuesa, one of the twelve participants who were affected by the devastation of DANA in the past 29 of October. Ell, Juan Carlos Nadal i Ruben Tortosa, they have created three works professionally for the Ferreres room of the Center del Carme that hosts the exhibition. Specifically Vinuesa, has painted a work titled deluge, a large canvas of thick and abrupt brushstrokes that allude to the devastating action of the ravine. Gestural abstraction, geometric, poetic and technological that breaks with tradition to claim the validity of this artistic expression in our technological world. S.M.
