DOUBTING EVOLUTION - From the Palaeolithic to the present day ....
This work began to take form when one day, not so long ago... I saw the encyclopaedia of art history, there she was, on one of the shelves of my small library, she seemed to be really boring ... new technologies, the daily rush, and lack of free time had relegated her to being almost a "decorative object".I reached out with the firm intention to repair the damage of having given to her those offensive "status", and I decided that each day, I will read at least 10 or 20 pages.... (a quite illusory idea, knowing the rhythm of my day, and my facility to go around the bush when something "catches my eye"... but the intention in that moment, was sincere).
And of course my journey through art history, began at that moment when the man feels the need to seek materials that allow that their creations development endures... at first only with the intention of going with them in their daily work, by combining utility and beauty; and a little bit later, capturing those creations in walls that would grant more durability.
So there I was, in the Palaeolithic... discovering the ability of the human being of carving artworks, some 40,000 years BC, and feeling his need to create, decorate... and definitely trying to shape the word "Art". Turning those pages, the images were causing to me a parallel thought ... in some ways, the behaviours from those ancient times are not so different to the behaviours of the present day ... sometimes seems that we have moved backwards instead of progress, despite the time elapsed.
The human being is assumed to have an innate ability to learn... but the doubt really began to invade me, if we are able to learn the right thing over times.
With this, the seeds of "doubting evolution" were sown.
I decided to work (for the moment) with five concepts: Aesthetics, Habitat, Housing, Provisioning and Seduction.
In the whole series an everyday scene of Paleolithic or Neolithic; is facing to a current image ... have we really evolved?
Awards selections cv work:
doubting evolution I - Selection #virtual-ellas Festival Miradas de Mujeres
doubting evolution II - Selection V Iberoamerican Biennial of Graphic Art Ciudad de Cáceres
doubting evolution III - Selection IV Biennial of Engraving "Etching" Provincia de Valladolid
doubting evolution IV - Selection XX NATIONAL AWARDS OF ENGRAVING
doubting evolution V - Selection V Iberoamerican Biennial of Graphic Art Ciudad de Cáceres
Has been exhibited at:
SetUp Fair - Bologna (Italy)
The Others Fair - Turin (Italy)
Entrefotos XVI, Madrid
FIG Bilbao
MGEC Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engraving, Marbella
Palacio de Pimentel, Valladolid
#virtual-ellas, Festival Miradas de Mujeres
Solo exhibition Engraving and Photography, Ramses by s + ARCK
“Compendio Art_Works” (Solo exhibition) Cult. Cent. Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Madrid
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