Luis Bisbe de la Fuente & Alberto Peral Garc铆a: de lo que uno dice / lo que est谩 as铆 / solo doble
It all begins as follows: two artists, with two different ways of creating and looking, but with similar concerns, meet to carry out a shared action. As in any meeting, the moment is as important as the place. Thus, in the course of three long weeks of work, the space itself is progressively incorporated as an essential element of the project. It provides the material necessary for its elaboration, gives up corners and interstices of its architecture and gives proper meaning to those rare objects that are sometimes known as works of art.
This is the starting point of the project "de lo que uno dice / lo que est谩 as铆 / solo doble", a hybrid exhibition by Luis Bisbe de la Fuente (Malaga, 1965) and Alberto Peral Garcia (Santurtzi, 1966) for Alegria Gallery that combines elements of site specific, group show and solo exhibition, in an act halfway between a dialogue between friends and an ever-changing curatorship. Both Alberto and Luis have developed their work and trajectory creating and arranging objects, looking for their relevance, exploring their relationship with space and the power they have on the viewer's perception the moment they dialogue and modify that very space. In their works resonates the question posed by the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, in the preface of "System of Objects", in 1969: "Is there anyone who can classify the world of changing objects with the eye, and achieve a descriptive system?" [1]. In Alberto's case, this answer has been given by a paradoxical purity of intrusive forms; Luis, on the other hand, has developed, over the years, a subtle poetic of the materialism. In this project, both of them display a collection of objects that interrupt the gaze and modify the environment, showing their resistance to being simply consumed by our crushing idea of reality.
In our fluid world, so overloaded with an excess of images, connotations and meanings, the greatest radicality resides in the fact that places, things and forms are only places, things and forms. As if it was an initiatory riddle, Alberto and Luis - Luis and Alberto - bring us face to face with this fact and make us look, once again, at a sequence of resounding objects and places able to reclaim their power and charm. This exhibition is an exercise reminiscent of that Hasidic tale, reported by the philosopher Martin Buber, in which a rabbi leaves his home in search of treasure only to discover, thanks to the help of a foreigner, that it was buried right under the foundations of his own home. The gallerists themselves must have felt something similar when they saw the floor, ceiling and walls converted into elements of an unusual work that only becomes complete when the generosity of one's home is incorporated into it.
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It all begins as follows: two artists, with two different ways of creating and looking, but with similar concerns, meet to carry out a shared action. As in any meeting, the moment is as important as the place. Thus, in the course of three long weeks of work, the space itself is progressively incorporated as an essential element of the project. It provides the material necessary for its elaboration, gives up corners and interstices of its architecture and gives proper meaning to those rare objects that are sometimes known as works of art.
This is the starting point of the project "de lo que uno dice / lo que est谩 as铆 / solo doble", a hybrid exhibition by Luis Bisbe de la Fuente (Malaga, 1965) and Alberto Peral Garcia (Santurtzi, 1966) for Alegria Gallery that combines elements of site specific, group show and solo exhibition, in an act halfway between a dialogue between friends and an ever-changing curatorship. Both Alberto and Luis have developed their work and trajectory creating and arranging objects, looking for their relevance, exploring their relationship with space and the power they have on the viewer's perception the moment they dialogue and modify that very space. In their works resonates the question posed by the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, in the preface of "System of Objects", in 1969: "Is there anyone who can classify the world of changing objects with the eye, and achieve a descriptive system?" [1]. In Alberto's case, this answer has been given by a paradoxical purity of intrusive forms; Luis, on the other hand, has developed, over the years, a subtle poetic of the materialism. In this project, both of them display a collection of objects that interrupt the gaze and modify the environment, showing their resistance to being simply consumed by our crushing idea of reality.
In our fluid world, so overloaded with an excess of images, connotations and meanings, the greatest radicality resides in the fact that places, things and forms are only places, things and forms. As if it was an initiatory riddle, Alberto and Luis - Luis and Alberto - bring us face to face with this fact and make us look, once again, at a sequence of resounding objects and places able to reclaim their power and charm. This exhibition is an exercise reminiscent of that Hasidic tale, reported by the philosopher Martin Buber, in which a rabbi leaves his home in search of treasure only to discover, thanks to the help of a foreigner, that it was buried right under the foundations of his own home. The gallerists themselves must have felt something similar when they saw the floor, ceiling and walls converted into elements of an unusual work that only becomes complete when the generosity of one's home is incorporated into it.
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It all begins as follows: two artists, with two different ways of creating and looking, but with similar concerns, meet to carry out a shared action.
Luis Bisbe and Alberto Peral鈥檚 exhibition 鈥渄e lo que uno dice / lo que est谩 as铆 / solo doble鈥� (Of What One Says / What Is Like This / Double Solo).
