CARME CENTER. Museum, 2
July has been the month chosen by the Diputació de València to be seen in the artistic field. If at the MuVIM—a museum he owns—he has mounted an exhibition with the work of “scholarship” artists awarded by the institution since the year 1863, at the Center del Carme displays a reel of the most contemporary, this is, the project The big book of painting with which the Valencian artist Manu Blazquez won the last edition of the Alfons Roig Awards. The biannual award, chosen by a professional jury, consists of the granting of 17.500 euros in cash for the development of the project and its presentation at the Center del Carme. In this case, Pas de deux, What does “Step by two” mean?, in reference to the content of the artist's book that Blázquez presents in the exhibition: in each spread of this publication, spread on tables, there is a relationship of two standardized canvas formats, which is the object of your study, conceptual, and as always, elegant and minimalist. The shift is made by Blázquez, overlooking the content of the artistic work to focus on the continent., on the surface on which it rests. Analyze the physical limits of the pictorial medium by studying the three families of canvas stretchers (figure, landscape and seascape), with the treatise on painting of the Golden Age The big book of painting by Gérard de Lairesse as a reference. Blázquez says that “they are formats that were born in the 19th century.”, or a little before, and that today we still work with them in an almost automatic way because they are in the market. Most of the time we barely think about those structures, in those dimensions, but we directly provide them with content without thinking about the meaning of that format, Why does the surface have those dimensions?. In the room 1 You can see it is a digital facsimile of this ancient decalogue that is displayed in eight tables., marking a rhythm that generates the mathematical logic of the 513 resulting combinations. The canvas is geometry, music is rhythm, and this is a mathematician. And everything together, geometry, music, canvas and paint, es Pas de deux, the exhibition of the winner of the Alfons Roig Scholarship at the Center del Carme. AU
