{"id":7663,"date":"2013-04-25T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2013\/04\/25\/un-millon-de-amigos-make-me-tender2029\/"},"modified":"2013-04-25T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T00:32:00","slug":"un-millon-de-amigos-make-me-tender2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/un-millon-de-amigos-make-me-tender2029\/","title":{"rendered":"Un mill\u00f3n de amigos: make me tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-7639\" src=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/crop.jpg\" alt=\"crop.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"670\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/crop.jpg 670w, https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/crop-595x208.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><br \/>\nGoing around galleries is something of a habit. Particularly when visiting cities where one doesn\u2019t practice geographic permanence. Bearing in mind how customary it is, there\u2019s maybe a degree of novelty in interchanging the option of the planned, known route for the unknown route; solitary artistic <em>flaneurism<\/em> for the collective experience of the shared excursion; a solemnity of reception for the rupture of the circumscribed movement. Something like this is what happened last 12 April with the presentation of Jugada a 3 bandas in Barcelona, an initiative of Hablar en Arte aimed at connecting galleries, artists and curators. And also the public, though this term largely pertains to some of the previous categories.<\/p>\n<p>The itinerary promoted by  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a3bandas.org\/\">Ja3b<\/a> goes well beyond its day of presentation (that supposed a continuum of openings throughout the evening, in a manner not apt for the phlegmatic) and constructs for a month and a half, a familiar map including in the Barcelona version; Galer\u00eda Alegr\u00eda, ADN Galer\u00eda, Projecte SD, Balaguer, etHALL, \u00e1ngels barcelona and Nogueras Blanchard. Given that the totality is only assumable in theory and that in practice attention is directed by a subjective demarcation based on personal preferences, of all the exhibitions in Ja3b what stands out, admitting the partiality of taste, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adngaleria.com\/web\/pag\/home.asp?la=es\">Un mill\u00f3n de amigos<\/a> by the Colombian artist Iv\u00e1n Argote at ADN Galer\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>If there is one feeling that runs through a large part of this exhibition (or to be more correct the spectator) it is tenderness. This enables one to talk about art in relation to the emotional subjectivity of the receiver, something that is quite unusual and moreover enjoys a bad reputation within an intellectualism based on the objectification of the subjective. Though a large part of Iv\u00e1n Argote\u2019s work triggers such an intimate, individual and bidirectional feeling as tenderness, it does so without stumbling into the sentimental or affected. Other terms could be used to refer to Argote\u2019s artistic production. For example, low frequency political action, analysis through apparently spontaneous actions of an encounter with the \u201cother\u201d, humour as a strategy when confronting the regimented solemnity of serious things, the effectiveness of the simple, the transcendence of the ephemeral, the everyday as a multiverse to be explored and weighed up. Approximations that if more concrete in their generalisation, still don\u2019t avoid the dominant pathos (tenderness) that converts the work of Argote into the resolution and setting in motion of those occurrences that we cast aside out of a lack of determination and an excess of codification in our relation with the rest, particularly if they are strangers or (harder still) half-strangers. <\/p>\n<p><em>Un mill\u00f3n de amigos<\/em> begins as a popular party with a phrase of Borges as a sort of laconic manifesto. <em>\u00bfQui\u00e9n no juzg\u00f3 alguna vez a sus ancestros, a la prehistoria de su carne y sangre?<\/em> (Who hasn\u2019t at some point judged their ancestors, the prehistory of their flesh and blood?) is an installation where the text translates into various threads of light-bulbs arranged into Morse code on the ceiling. <em>D\u00e1ndole peso a los besos<\/em> (Giving weight to kisses) is based on the presence of one of the most fugitive events that exist, a kiss, thanks to a rock covered in the traces of this repeated event. <em>Extractos<\/em>(Extracts) transports to the gallery space the reconstructed fragment of an urban wall that, beyond its textual vindication, inevitably translates the contradiction of the artistic dislocation. In <em>Caricia<\/em> (Caress) the artist rehearses an intervention, caressing a couple of lovers in a Parisian park with his shadow. <em>Un a\u00f1o al d\u00eda<\/em> (A year a day) is a series of Polaroid photographs, the fruit of a project where Iv\u00e1n Argote takes the role of the crafter of distant birthdays, vindicating in the celebration this <em>memento mori<\/em> innate to the biographical temporality of being human. In  <em>Make happy, make me sad<\/em> he intervenes on an old 5000 peseta note, provoking an emotional ambiguity in the face of the king of Spain. The poetical-political manoeuvre is repeated in <em>Turistas<\/em> (Tourists), dressing with a poncho the sculptures of Isabella the Catholic and Christopher Colon found in a square of the Colombian capital. In <em>Activ\u00edsimo!<\/em>(Activism!)he  takes to the street once again, this time reconstructing with subtitled slides the experience of a family history, reactivating the idea of a protest workshop that his father had coordinated decades earlier. The fusion between history and personal biography appears once again in <em>Historia de la Humanidad<\/em> (History of Humanity), an 8mm film that, at the same time as reviving the format of family videos, resuscitates allegorically great moments of humanity. With <em>Geometr\u00eda<\/em> (Geometry) belonging is combined with origin when two girls in the jungle use as a compass the shots from a weapon to indicate, with indeterminate answers, their place of origin. The exhibition, which this synopsis doesn\u2019t do justice to, ends with <em>La estrategia<\/em> (The strategy), a revival of the past through the recompilation of anecdotes of some militants in Bogota from the seventies in which various people together put into practice the aim of living a pipe-dream: reliving a distant \u2013but also their own- past from the present. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from all the differences to be found in the pieces, <em>Un mill\u00f3n de amigos<\/em>\u2013and by extension the work of Iv\u00e1n Argote- reminds us that maybe art functions \u2013above all for those who produce or actively participate in it- as a legitimate excuse to relate us to a world where exception is patrimony of only a few.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going around galleries is something of a habit. Particularly when visiting cities where one doesn\u2019t practice geographic permanence. 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