The artist’s use of performance and theatre attempts to question the role of the audience and how we interact in a world mediated by images that belong to collective imagination.
NoguerasBlanchard is pleased to announce a new exhibition programme in the gallery’s space in L´Hospitalet focusing on performative practices that emphasize bodily experience and its ability to affect and be affected, during the period of one year.
The first installation presents A Slow Dance Without Name, by Italian artist Jacopo Miliani. Working mostly with photography, installation and performance, these different media have allowed him to develop a research concerning the way the viewer/spectator creates personal images, as well as meaning, through communication and language. The artist’s use of performance and theatre attempts to question the role of the audience and how we interact in a world mediated by images that belong to collective imagination.
A Slow Dance Without Name was developed for the first time in Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon) and presents a study about language’s performative power through the act of deconstructing a performative-striptease action. The entire exhibition refers to this slow dance, called Dança sem título (2016), which will take place during the opening and becomes the starting point for a reflection on the construction of desire. The way such desire flows through all the works in the exhibition constitutes a metaphor enabling one to rethink the conditions for constructing personal and collective imageries.
Language is a Dancer (2016) a black screen built from three geometric lacquered wood pieces, becomes the stage in which the dance takes place and inspires Miliani’s discourse around desire-production. The essence of a striptease presupposes the existence of a perceiver. This game of seeing and not seeing or perceiving and not perceiving is, in its essence, conceived for an audience (le voyeur) without whom it couldn’t exist. Tentazioni (2016) is a pair of oversized gloves which have been inflated by a supposed accumulated sexual flow and are reminiscent of popular cultural forms of sexual representation, conveyed by mainstream media.
Fags (2016) depicts a presence of an absence. Some cigarettes thrown on a wet floor refer to the passage of time, to the action of waiting, during the staging of a dance and reflect directly on the role of the viewer. Furthermore, a series of wall pieces, five brass sculptures reminiscent of speech and thought bubbles, engages the spectators directly by reflecting not only their image but also, and most importantly, their gaze, forcing them, in a way, to complete the work by themselves.
Installation
Selected Works
Fermín Jiménez Landa
Bamboleo de Chandler
2017
C-Print (5 frames)
51 x 51 cm (20 3⁄32 x 20 3⁄32 inches)
Fermín Jiménez Landa
Untitled
2017
Pencil on canvas
15 x 20 cm (5 29⁄32 x 7 7⁄8 inches)
Fermín Jiménez Landa
Untitled
2017
Pencil on canvas
15 x 20 cm (5 29⁄32 x 7 7⁄8 inches)
Fermín Jiménez Landa
Study for Bamboleo de Chandler
2017
Collage on paper
41.5 x 31 cm (16 11⁄32 x 12 3⁄16 inches)
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Visuales mnemonicas lll
2017
Linen, cotton yarn and organza silk
300 x 130 cm (118 1⁄8 x 51 3⁄16 inches)
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Visuales mnemonicas lV
2017
Linen, cotton yarn and organza silk
300 x 130 cm (118 1⁄8 x 51 3⁄16 inches)
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Untitled / visuales mnemonicas (m1l)
2016
Photopolymer engraving on Hahnemühle paper
24 x 30 cm (9 7⁄16 x 11 13⁄16 inches)
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Untitled / visuales mnemonicas (m2l)
2016
Photopolymer engraving on Hahnemühle paper
24 x 30 cm (9 7⁄16 x 11 13⁄16 inches)
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Untitled / visuales mnemonicas (m3l)
2016
Photopolymer engraving on Hahnemühle paper
24 x 30 cm (9 7⁄16 x 11 13⁄16 inches)
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Untitled / visuales mnemonicas (m4l)
2016
Photopolymer engraving on Hahnemühle paper
24 x 30 cm (9 7⁄16 x 11 13⁄16 inches)
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Untitled / visuales mnemonicas (m5l)
2016
Photopolymer engraving on Hahnemühle paper
24 x 30 cm (9 7⁄16 x 11 13⁄16 inches)
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Untitled / visuales mnemonicas (m6l)
2016
Photopolymer engraving on Hahnemühle paper
24 x 30 cm (9 7⁄16 x 11 13⁄16 inches)
Benoît Maire
Peinture de nuages
2017
Oil and spray paint on canvas
152 x 102 cm (59 27⁄32 x 40 5⁄32 inches)
Benoît Maire
Peinture de nuages
2017
Oil and spray paint on canvas
152 x 102 cm (59 27⁄32 x 40 5⁄32 inches)
Benoît Maire
Castling Pieces, Piece 1 to 14
2017
Wooden platform, objects, DVD with instructions
496 x 250 cm (195 9⁄32 x 98 7⁄16 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Language is a dancer
2016
Screen, laquered wood
180 x 240 cm (70 7⁄8 x 94 1⁄2 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Voguing
2012
Print on silk
120 x 90 cm (47 1⁄4 x 35 7⁄16 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Fumar abajo
UV print on aluminium
20 x 30 cm (7 7⁄8 x 11 13⁄16 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Fumar arriba
2016
UV print on aluminium
20 x 30 cm (7 7⁄8 x 11 13⁄16 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Fumar arriba
2016
UV print on aluminium
20 x 30 cm (7 7⁄8 x 11 13⁄16 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Parti
2016
Mirror, wood, cigarettes
22 x 32 cm (8 21⁄32 x 12 19⁄32 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Chat
2016
Mirror, wood, cigarettes
22 x 32 cm (8 21⁄32 x 12 19⁄32 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Últim cigarret
2016
Mirror, wood, cigarettes
20 x 30 cm (7 7⁄8 x 11 13⁄16 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Thinking POW!
2016
Polished brass
65 x 80 cm (25 19⁄32 x 31 1⁄2 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Thinking KA-BOOM!
2016
Polished brass
65 x 80 cm (25 19⁄32 x 31 1⁄2 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Thinking WHAM!
2016
Polished brass
65 x 80 cm (25 19⁄32 x 31 1⁄2 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Le voyeur
2016
Resin hands, book
Jacopo Miliani
Tentazioni
2016
Fabric
150 x 700 cm (59 1⁄16 x 275 19⁄32 inches)
Jacopo Miliani
Fags
2016
Photograph
60 x 90 cm (23 5⁄8 x 35 7⁄16 inches)