Father Madariaga

Father Madariaga

Vernissage: 13/12/2012  at 19:00h

Opens from 14/12/2012 to 23/12/2012 
                  Thursday to Sunday
                  16:00 h - 19:00 h

Father Madariaga represents in the symbolic register of the Venezuelan, the figure of emancipation.
Whether the facts were as history tells or not, his gesture left a mark in our collective unconscious
and it’s a necessary referent for such reflections.


About the Artist’s Works.

Iván Candeo with his work “The Indian and the Conqueror” presents a tap dancer waving his body to the rhythm of a military march, eluding the obvious discrepancy between the dance and the martial solemnity from the soundtrack.

Jose Perozo makes a reflection about the homophobia present in the code values of some indoctrinating institutions such as the Catholic Church, taking as a starting point a biblical quote that allows him to exercise his sexual freedom.

Florencia Alvarado with her work examines individuality, freedom, the parameters and the beauty of the being. It pretends to generate questions on the canons that we live in, questions on the objectivity with which beauty is estimated.

Jose Miguel Del Pozo by taking Albert Camus’s novel The Rebel pretends to generate a personal speech approaching to express in a language what in another one is said. In words of the artist “I read it in Spanish and it tells me something, that something is not necessarily what Camus says (in French) but somehow he gets his point across”.

Maria Fernanda Guevara fights the loss of personal memory occurred by the physical disappearance brought by death, transforming tissues into ceramic plaques, creating in that way, fossils, and generating a testimony of existence.

Christian Vinck with his work makes us understand in an intuitive way that Venezuelan History is based on myths and legends, and with his apparent naive technique makes us reflect about the distance between the legend and the contingency of the present.

Agustín Rincón with his work creates a cognitive learning exercise through the realization of a sensible-philosophic essay that it’s the work itself. That essay lays the foundation for the development of a personal theory on contemporary art, the demystification of the creating process and the libertarian power that offers art to the artist as well as the spectator.