(Español) Palpando entre arterias perdidas y el latido de objetos olvidados.
Elementos invisibles que dibujan un camino de migajas ante una mesa vacía.
Enmarcados, el extravío y la duda.
Clavados en la pared, el extrañamiento cósmico y la añoranza del mundo junto a fotos de viaje y antes curiosos.
Diferentes piezas en diferentes soportes -vídeos, fotografías, objetos- se generan a partir de un mismo motivo: el extrañamiento del mundo o bien el impulso por ver lo que es invisible. Porque los objetos percibidos varias veces empiezan a no ser vistos.

Punts Suspensius is a work made by photoetching techniques and procedures, which tryes to open a road to connect the birthplace (the nest) with the universe.
It starts from a photo of a kiosk of dwellings for birds. Strategies of attrition are used, through the power of chiaroscuro and the contrast between full and empty spaces.

The proposal reconsiders the initial value and condition of the object itself, the reason for which it was created. Once this object ceases to be useful, it no longer serves to any purpose. With this work, in a way, I wanted to pay tribute to these objects impregnated with previous experiences, which they also lose an inherent condition, the three-dimensionality. Crushed first and cut and separated later, the resulting fragments find a new way to organize themselves, as they become irreducible objects.

(The title is taken from the book “Work and days” by Hesiod (S.VIII a.C.)
In this book the Greek poet creates a singing to the honesty and to the work dignity, against the idleness and the laziness. Also he shows a mythological and poetic evolution of the humanity ages associated to different materials: Gold, silver, bronze, iron…
The exhibition holds
The installation “Gli strumenti dell’arte”
Drawings of the series “Sculptor constellation”
The installation calls up the extension of the own body, to a series of elements that become prosthesis of the inner need of making and they finish becoming facts; tools that once dumb and put on the solemnity of the shelf, push us to remember the use in a kind of resonances dialogue almost sacred.

He lives and works between Madrid, Santiago de Compostela and Montevideo.
He studied in the workshop “Bien al Sur”, Joaquin Torres Garcia Museum.
Classes on art theory with Anhelo Hernández (direct student of Joaquín Torres García) at National School of Fine Arts in Montevideo.
He creates Puerto54 Workshop where he begins to explore the introduction of criteria expressions to the idea of structure in the paint.

At present this Award is steeped in a philosophy full of aesthetic values of a young an emerging art and also it is a a platform for the dissemination of these new representatives of visual languages, which are undoubtedly able to build bridges of relationship between the various existing creative tendencies.
Through different Annual Prizes, the gallery has established itself as an art space that apart from promoting the creation, is also intended as a place where art actions can be developed, in order that this space is not a platonic space, but a productive space of mobile art, and neither a platform isolated from its surroundings.
Joan Casals

The work of the artist and architect Dennis Maher explores critical approaches to the demolition, renovation and restoration. Since 2003 he has been delving into areas affected by demolition, waste containers of construction materials and recycling materials stores in search of materials and obsolete items. The recovered components are stacked creating regenerated spaces, transforming lost places to rediscovered places, by means of recovery. His work explores the latent potential of the waste and the void, creating opportunities for regeneration in the most banal and least respected of the urban landscape. By carefully weaving the elements into disuse, new projections of imaginary cities and landscapes invented germinate, suggesting a new reality.

His work is located within the renewed current of figurative painting that since the late sixties is developed in Spain.
Founding member of the multidisciplinary group L3C in 1989, with which he has exhibited in all his manifestations, as “El gobierno de los pies” in Madrid or “Entre ajo y zafiro” in Valencia. He has participated in numerous collective and generational actions such as “Muelle de Levante” or “La canción de las figuras”, and has exhibited individually in Spain, Italy i USA.
He had a grant from the Fundación Cañada Blanc, his works have been recognized by museums and foundations such as the Reina Sofia Museum, or the Banco de España and Weissman Foundation in Los Angeles among others. He gets the Bancaja Prize in 2001, and Caja Sur in 2003.

The exhibition consists of sculptures made of polyester resin, natural materials and works on paper. The sculptures are based on anthropomorphic forms that refer to the individual becoming as an ever growing process.
In the works on paper forms are not traced or drawn but are generated in the negative: the contours and surfaces are emptied. What causes the images is its absence, the areas cut out of paper. The discontinuity in the white paper shows evanescent images, elements that are there without being there.
Some of the images represent branches and forking paths in infinite directions, referring to the human figure as a constant process of growth and traverse a territory.

There has always been a link between artistic representation and eroticism. Eroticism is a form of body awareness, both from within as that of another. The harmony and beauty of human body were discovered by the art, which brings together aesthetic and sensitivity. From the moment that humans discovered the link between sexuality and pleasure, beyond the animal instinct and procreation, the pleasure had to be expressed and become a source of artistic representation.
Summary taken from the catalog Eros + Ismes, written by Raquel Medina Vargas