UNTIL SUNDAY 6/2
VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
Guillermo Ros run away from the word "artist", he considers himself a sculptor and seems to revere the knowledge of the craftsman above the artistic pose. The IVAM has invited him to create one site specific for at the Galeria 6, the most difficult and uncomfortable of the entire museum for artists due to its division into two heights and the columns that interrupt it. The exhibition here is always a challenge in itself, repte that Ros has transformed into the central theme of the show: the violence inherent in the process of artistic creation. Ros's first war is against museum architecture, in the level 1, where he has multiplied the original pillars of the room with dents of rodents and inlays of fragments of polished or raw stone that can be found in the Llotja de la Seda de Valencia and many other emblematic buildings or spaces of the Valencian Golden Age. Beneath the smooth surface, white and immaculate of the institutional pillar beats the rough and pure stone. When we move to the second level, al pis superior, the serrations on the bottom cover the entire sense because great aesthetic rats will comic (they remember Master Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) they are ravaging the museum by sinking their steel teeth. They are turning into parasites that are beginning to mimic the institution that feeds them, in (auto)reference to artists (and the rest of the world) who end up assuming self-exploitation within a violent and perverse capitalist system. S.M.
