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Sobre influencias no evidentes

Magazine

18 January 2009

Sobre influencias no evidentes

Metamembrana es un nuevo proyecto de Marcel·lí Antúnez que se presenta simultáneamente en cinco sedes distintas de Catalunya: el CCCB en Barcelona, el Espai Zero1 d’Olot, el Espai d’Arts Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts de Granollers, el Espai d’Art Cal Massó de Reus y el IMAC de Lleida.

Se inauguró el pasado 14 de enero. Yo la vi en el CCCB. El trabajo de Marcel·lí Antúnez no parece haber mantenido vínculos – ni conceptuales ni formales – con nuevas generaciones de artistas catalanes. No obstante, es curioso como el carácter telúrico, obsesivo y paródico de su obra permite encontrar ciertas conexiones con algunas actitudes propias de jóvenes artistas de nuestro contexto.

Como espectador de la instalación, no pude evitar detectar ciertos paralelismos entre su obra y artistas que conozco mejor: algunos ejemplos podrían ser los dibujos excesivos de Efrén Álvarez, la teatralidad de Bestué/Vives, el imaginario delirante de Momu & No Es, el mensaje irónico (interés escatológico incluido) de Ana Garcia-Pineda o la influencia telúrica de lo ultralocal de Jordi Mitjà.

David Armengol (Barcelona, 1974) is an independent curator who combines his curatorial practice with other parallel activities such as cultural management and teaching. He is particularly interested in music, nature and storytelling, but from the field of contemporary art. In other words, he does not know how to play any instrument, is not a great adventurer and does not master the art of storytelling. In a way, it is enough for him that his passions of sound, landscape and narrative coexist in the format of an exhibition. That’s why he always thinks of artists.

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