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Aquí
Darío Villalba

From 7 April to 13 June 2016
Opening Thursday 7 April at 8:00pm

Luis Adelantado Valencia is pleased to invite you to the opening of Darío Villalba’s solo exhibition entitled Aquí (Here), to be held on 7 April.

Darío Villalba (1939, San Sebastián) is an essential fgure when it comes to understanding art after the Informalist generation of the 1950s. His response to this current opened up the notion of the art world itself, conceptualizing new forms of work.

His work has been recognized by the most important art institutions, for pioneering the use of photography as painting: emulsified, intervened and transformed. In 1970, at the XXXV Venice Biennale, he presented his Encapsulados (Encapsulated) works, which brought him international fame and artistic prominence. He has received several awards for the continued excellence of his work, including the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts awarded by the King of Spain in 2002 and the National Fine Arts Prize in 2003.

For this, his fifth solo exhibition at Luis Adelantado Valencia, Villalba is presenting more than 40 new pieces. In them, he takes us on a tour ranging from the reinterpretation of the past—through his archetypical basic documents—to a new vision in which, as a novelty, he will show some of the works in which he takes on the color of his original 80s works. These are undoubtedly uncommon pieces in Villalba’s own universe, and they are completed with sleek black and white lights and shadows.

Some of his most important exhibitions include: An International Survey of Contemporary Art to Open at Museum of Modern Art, MoMA (New York, 1984), Darío Villalba. A retrospective view 1957-2007, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2007), Cinq siècles d’Art Espagnol: l’imagination nouvelle. Les années 70-80. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, 1987).His presence in national and international collections is also noteworthy: Metropolitan Museum (New York), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), AENA Collection (Madrid), Juan March Foundation (Palma de Mallorca), MNCARS (Madrid).

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BOILER ROOM. #Danza. Work in Progress
 
From 14 April to 11 May, 2016 Opening Thursday 14 April at 8:00 pm

Luis Adelantado Valencia is pleased to invite you to a new performance taking place in our gallery’s Boiler Room on Thursday 14 April.

#Danza. Work in Progress is the result of a collaboration between the Superior Conservatory of Dance of Valencia—represented by its Director Francisco José Salmerón Álvarez and Prof. Mª Carmen Gimenez Morte—and our gallery director, Olga Adelantado.

The selected project belongs to Dröl-ma Conejero Vila’s TFT, Perceptions, an experimental exercise in which a musician and a dancer reflect on the emotions hidden inside the three primary colors.

Each performer—in their own field of action—will interpret the emotions evoked by these three colours, as a primary metaphor bearing infinite connections, creating a symbiosis between the visual, musical and corporeal scopes, which intertwine following the rules of the game. Intuition, playfulness and sensitivity will form part of the dynamics.

This is a hybrid approach that revolves around the idea of perception, from the movement of the dancer’s body to the waves of the music that will guide her steps, under the precepts of the primary colors and the rules of the game.

The role played by the audience is critical, as its members will be invited to collaborate (following the rules overleaf) through their own positioning in the room. This represents an experience, linked to the poetics of colour and movement, in which the audience members will be more than mere spectators.


Rules of the performance#Danza. Work in Progress
Concept: Dröl-ma Conejero Vila
Music: Joan García Llin

Exhibition graphics: Antonio Ballesteros
Video: Elena Robles

1. Three great primary coloured circles—red, yellow and blue—on the walls.

2. A dancer and a musician will perform music and movement, inspired by the perception of each of the three primary colours.

3. There will be two 10-minute pieces. Total duration will be around 20 minutes.

4.The audience’s collaboration will start here. Enjoy the performance and think: What colour is being performed?

5. One of the pieces will start with the musician choosing one of the primary colours. He will “play” this colour and the dancer will start dancing, according to the colour she thinks has been chosen by the musician.

6. The following piece will work in the same way, but inversely. The dancer will be the person to perform the colour through her movements, and the musician will have to sense a colour and play accordingly.

7.During the performance of each of the pieces, the audience will be able to choose the colour they believe has been played, by positioning themselves near the colour’s location in the room.