Drawing

In Residence at la Neomudéjar Museum – Madrid (ES)

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When?

November 2015 – April 2016 (both inclusive)

Where?

Museo – Centro de Artes de Vanguardia – Residencia artística Internacional –LA NEOMUDÉJAR– calle Antonio Nebrija s/n 28007 MADRID – SPAIN

What for?

Le Maschere Nude – On family, individual and collective memory, stories and history. “[…] from one painted [portrait] to another, it is a plural collective memory that newly finds physical expression. A senso comune where the flesh of one joins the flesh of the world.”*

Disorient – What happens when we lose our perimeters, our orientating devices, our socio-cultural or emotional pillars? (in collaboration with performer-artist Valentina Lacmanovic)

 

 

 

 

 

*L. ALLEGUE. (2012) « senso comune », in L’intime, le privé, le public dans l’art contemporain. E. Chiron, A. Lelièvre (Dir.). Paris. Publications de la Sorbonne, p.p. 165-173. ISBN 978-2-85944-700-7

William Kentridge on Memory and how we deal with it

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Interviewed by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, William Kentridge says:

All my work is part of a single project. I don’t see a great shift. In Il Ritorno d’Ulisse I was looking at the body as a metaphor for our relationship to memory and the unconscious, acknowledging that there are things happening under the surface, which we hope will be well contained by our skin. We hope that our skin will not erupt, that parts of us will not collapse inside. The body in this sense is other to us; we shepherd it along like an ox, hoping it will come quietly to market and not run away. In recent works such as stereoscope I’m interested in the co-existence of all those contradictory strands, and what it means to synthesize them into one subjectivity.

Stereoscope is about the cost of trying to bring these disparate parts of oneself together.

In Cameron, Christov-Bakargiev, Coetzee. “William Kentridge” (1999) London, Phaïdon, p.23.

To watch Kentridge’s Stereoscope, click HERE.

The CAC of Málaga (Spain) is exhibiting Kentridge’s work until 13 May 2012. I just can’t wait to go, see it and meditate. (http://cacmalaga.org/?p=5046)