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Ana Álvarez-Errecalde,  David Bestué & Marc Vives, DSK (Juan Lesta & Belén Montero), Kim Engelen, Carlos González, Mercedes González de Garay, Alberto Gracia, Divina Huguet, Rodrigo Villas, Teresa Martin Ezam, Daniel Jacoby, Mahmoud Khaled, Lola Lasurt, Carlota Perla, Diego Pujal, Alex Reynolds, TVBOY, Rubén Verdú   
 

Ana Alvarez Errecalde
 
As Ana comes to the end of her residency in Hangar, she has many projects in progress. During the summer she started two projects in collaboration with certain institutions. The first one relates to the world of immigration and the expectations we have on arriving in a country that is more or less unknown to us, with its daily life. The second one focuses on the idea of the unnecessary scar often generated by childbirth, the internal and external mark.
Ana's work continues to explore the fact of being a woman and her own identity as a mother. Her latest work, Tallas, by turning out to be her most personal piece, has moved to the social terrain, of the group, where we can in some way recognise ourselves.
We interviewed Ana before her departure from Hangar and she gave us her impressions, her plans for after her stay and how she has developed her work during this period.  READ THE INTERVIEW

David Bestué and Marc Vives

Participants in the group exhibition La historia no es más que pequeñas cosas en cierto desorden (History is nothing more than a number of small things arranged in a particular disorder), which was shown at the Instituto Cervantes in Stockholm and is now on at the Espai ZERO1 in Olot, with the video Proteo produced for the 2009 Venice Biennale.
They have participated in several video programmes run by Hamaca, such as the BRXLBRAVO in Brussels, the HKM in the Netherlands or the Art Bakery in Cameroon.
They are taking part, with the project 60 cartas in the collective El mal de la escritura at the MACBA’s Espai de Documentació until April 2010. With 60 cartas, Marc and David are proposing to send letters to people or institutions in Barcelona with the intention of getting in touch directly with the chosen recipients, looking for a direct and physical relationship with them. The text takes on the role of direct questioning, addressed to particular individuals, within a given reality.
With the video Acciones en Casa, Marc and David, are taking part in the travelling exhibition, El geni de les coses,  organized by the Diputació de Barcelona, that will be on at Can Palauet in Mataró until January 31st.
David and Marc are running the workshop Jugarse la vida. Acción como límite y límite como anacronismo (Action as a limit and the limit as anachronism). It will take place in Nau Sud de l'Estruch in Sabadell from January 11 to April 16. The call for submissions is open to any creator working in the field of performance arts; performers, musicians, curators and researchers. The workshop, in collaboration with Nacho Vigalondo, Agustín Fernández Mallo and Andrés Jaque, will reflect on the idea that working today within the limits of representation and morality has become an anachronism, whereas moving them requires constant exigency and is rich in conclusions. People interested should register via this email estruch@ajsabadell.cat before December 4.estruch@ajsabadell.cat antes del 4 de diciembre.">
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DSK (Juan Lesta & Belén Montero)

Belén and Juan's work is channeled through several lines such as audiovisual and multimedia production through production or project Esferobite CODECO (Consolidated - Decoded - Consolidated) in trying to overcome the era of digitization on the basis of the recoding of analogizing the treatment of information.
In Hangar are developing some of its parts CODECO as paper chatting or CODECO gastronomy. The latter will be offered to the public to attend the presentation of this magazine on the 18th at Espai Ubu.
Their video ANIM 01 has won the first prize in the competition experimental video Curtas na Rede competition and has also been selected for the Kassel Documentary Film Festival and the Espacio Enter in the Canary Islands.
In October, they took part in the Outonarte festival, in A Coruña, with CINE_ASCIIart and a CODECO workshop for children, who participated actively in creating the Copia_seguridade_obradoiro_infantil piece, expressing their ideas about public space, which were translated into binary code and re-analogised. They also took part in the Inconexions exhibition at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, UAB.
They just started a vídeoblog,  which is currently under construction, to produce videos for the songs they receive.
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Kim Engelen

The Rotterdam artist Kim Engelen has been using video art, over the last ten years, to develop work of an intimate nature. Watching the artist’s work is a confrontation with the two aspects she works with: on the one hand, recognising the feeling of wanting to appeal to others, like personal delusions to satisfy ourselves. On the other hand, the encounter with the screen, a people’s tribunal observing you and analysing you, is turned into an uncomfortable situation.
Throughout her career, she has shown her work in several centres like VIDEO VAREO 3 or SUB URBAN VIDEO LOUNGE, in Rotterdam, Holland.
Kim plans to work on several videos during her residency. We were able to see her video work during the 09’ Tallers Oberts Poblenou and she is planning to produce her latest piece in Hangar. Its theme is similar to previous ones: women and confrontation with the viewer.
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Carlos Gonzalez

Carlos continues his commitment to experimentation, by rendering visible situations, places and everyday behaviour. The act of transgressing the nature of objects allows him to develop new languages.
Carlos is currently experimenting with several works on a  common theme.
He participated in the XVII Concurs de pintura ràpida Frances Cabanas Alibau along his partner and his sister. His work is currently on display at the Casa de Cultura in Sant Cugat del Valles, along with 93 other participants’ work.

Mercedes Gonzalez de Garay

Mercedes is participating in a group exhibition at the Gallery Montcada, Barcelona, until the end of November with her works Manolete el Tortugador and Cold Chicken.
She continues to work on the nomadic exhibition project, Gypsy Time, where she will exhibit her paintings in different European spaces.
She is also preparing a residence in Beijing, where she will go for three months thanks to the international artists residency run by the Galería Arteaga in La Rioja.
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Alberto Gracia

Alberto Gracia is currently working on an interactive installation in Can Ricart, a site specific installation, which we previously had the opportunity to see an early version of, last September, at the Hangar Obert. Its development is suited to the chosen environment, a disused industrial space.
He is also preparing an exhibition for next January entitled El espacio del intento, curated by Pedro Soler at Can Felipa.
This summer he participated in the meeting for creators organised by Hangar at La Laboral in Gijon where he intervened with a performance developing the work done during the meeting. Entitled Maltrato Objectual, it was a site specific installation proposing a critical attitude to the environment, the monumental Laboral and the activities that took place during it.

Divina Huguet, Rodrigo Villas and Teresa Martin Ezam

Divina, Rodrigo  and Teresa are sharing a studio where three types of work can be seen. Divina works on the idea of creating gender identity, debating the social construction of gender. Rodrigo Villas is more committed to working on social issues such as his documentary on the graffiti artists in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. His approach is narrated by street art, and he intends to spread his work to other cities. Teresa looks at transgender culture, in the aim of exposing the issue of change and cliché in transsexual culture.
The three artists share a studio as they are also involved in collaborative projects where they each perform various tasks to make up a common project.
Visit Rodrigo Villas' SITE Rodrigo
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Daniel Jacoby

Jacoby's career is not short. His work has a very precise goal: making data from data.
During his one-month residency at Hangar he will develop a project entitled One Toblerone of exactly 50g and x Toblerones of about 50g based on the correct weight of the chocolate bars. The project is funded by the Cajasol grant for Proyectos de Artes Visuales and the result will be revealed on March 12, 2010, in Seville.
Daniel is simultaneously involved in other projects such the collective exhibition NETescopio of the MEIAC (Museum Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo) curated by the artist Gustavo Romano. Among a selection of works to be shown, that were designed for the Internet, are The Impersonal Artwork and Fragmento del discurso del Presidente Chávez, el 3 de diciembre 2007, en orden alfabético.
 (Extract from President Hugo Chávez’ speech, December 3, 2007, in alphabetical order.)
NETescopio
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Mahmoud Khaled

Khaled Mahmoud is in Hangar as part of the exchange grant with Egypt. He lives and works in Alexandria, where he graduated in Art, specialising in painting. His stay in Hangar lasted from September 3 to November 30. His work is of a multidisciplinary nature, ranging from video to installation. In it he examines multiple explorations of documents in their manifold varieties, from the social to the institutional. His latter work seems to shift direction and head towards a domain where he analyses socio-political trajectories and how they affects our everyday lives.
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Lola Lasurt

Lola has begun a project called Indians, American, or Amerindians. A new installation made up of paint and objects that refer to the personal domain to address issues that may imply an element of identification for a group through a process of recognition. Her pictorial work forms part of graphic material, evidence of an era previous to the artist’s one. She works with aspects of time, forcing us to travel to the past through the present, as a need.
Lola has been selected for the Biennal de Valls 09' which opens on November 31 and is preparing work for submission at a national level.
 

 

Carlota Perla

Carlota does large-scale paintings based on decorative patterns from the iconography of art history, especially in reference to the Gothic period or the 15th and 16th centuries. She also looks towards Spanish Baroque, a period that particularly fascinates her, especially the representation of childhood, its poses, clothes, portraits, and other elements typically baroque like vanitas. Carlota draws a lot of preparatory sketches of her projects in black and white, on which she works for about three years. Her project on the Infanta Margarita, based on the central figure of Las Meninas by Velázquez, is developed in 16 large-scale drawings and a video-object. It has been shown in the Holster Projects Gallery in London. The exhibition will travel to Moscow in 2010.
Carlota is currently preparing a project about Eugenia Martínez Vallejo, La Monstrua, a character in the court of Charles II painted by Juan Carreño de Miranda, which will be developed through drawings and video objects.
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Diego Pujal

Diego Pujal has spent the summer painting. His production leans towards the experimentation of uniform forms and flat colours. He has executed his latest paintings on large canvases (195 x130 cm) and has started a project made up of five paintings of the same dimension (92 x 73 cm). Diego has exhibited in the Centro Cultural Mariano Mesonada of Utebo, Zaragoza, with his painting Llaves and was selected with the painting SEM for the Honda Prize after an exhibition in La Garriga. He is currently exhibiting work at the Public Library of Lleida and is soon to exhibit in Girona.

Alex Reynolds

Alex has produced the video Oveja, Buey, Viento (sheep, ox, wind) which forms part of the collective La historia no es más que pequeñas cosas en cierto desorden (History is nothing more than a number of small things arranged in a particular disorder), a co-production involving the Instituto Cervantes in Stockholm and the Espai ZERO1 in Olot. The show travelled to Sweden and will arrive in Olot on November 21.
This video is also part of the group exhibition 4o Parete?, in La Frumentaria in Sassari, Sardinia, within the framework of the Associazione Marco Magnani 2009 award.
Oveja, Buey, Viento shows two different ways of approaching reality, thanks to the adventures of a female artist who goes to Sardinia in order to sing in a male choir with strong   roots and tradition. The camera woman accompanying her will become a character in the story due to unexpected problems, leading to the loss of control over the project.
Also, the video Laia continues its journey with Generation 2009 Premios y Becas de arte of Caja Madrid, this time in the Exhibition Hall of Santa Inés, Seville, from early October to mid November.
Alex will be present with the video Nueve segundos de negro (Nine seconds of black) at Les Rencontres Internationales in the Musée National du Jeu de Paume, Paris between November 30 and December 10.
Alex took part in early November in the exhibition Entes, organized by Luz Broto in an apartment in the neighbourhood of Gràcia, attended by over 30 artists from Barcelona during a weekend.
 

TVBOY

After a two-year residency in Hangar, Salvatore Benintende is taking his alter ego, the puppet TVBOY and his dog Nico and moving to another workshop, but not from the city. He does move though when it comes to carrying out his projects. He has just returned from Burgos, where he spent a few days painting a large mural of 100 square meters. The mural was produced to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the declaration of the Burgos Cathedral as a World Heritage Site and will remain in place until December 30. Salvatore painted it on the wall of Madrid street in Burgos and it is a pop interpretation of paradise and the cathedral itself.
In late November, he will travel to Milan, where he will paint a mural on childhood and cultural integration.
During the month of December, he will be in Hipermerc'art in the Vinçon space. TVBOY also runs his own clothing line, which brings out two collections, for both men and women, a year. For more information and up-to-date news on TVBOY's activities, see his SITE.

Ruben Verdú

Rubén Verdé's career becomes latent in its continuous production. During the summer, he worked on several pieces currently exhibited in Stanlee and in the Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. The work presented follows a path, which at first glance is rather heterogeneous. Although, initially, each  one is based on the attraction to a particular cultural event, and is carried away by its own anthropological content, somehow the outcome of each work always fits into the same pattern; a kind of comic collapse of our contemporary culture and the dominant challenge its supposed transcendence raises.