{"id":8444,"date":"2013-12-14T19:05:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T19:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2013\/12\/14\/infancy-and-posing-at-room-art\/"},"modified":"2013-12-14T19:05:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T19:05:44","slug":"infancy-and-posing-at-room-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/infancy-and-posing-at-room-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Infancy and posing. At Room Art Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8396\" src=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bobkitty.jpg\" alt=\"bobkitty.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"670\" height=\"345\" \/><br \/>\nA lot has been said about <em>Room Art Fair<\/em>, the fair for young art in Madrid that maintains its daring mode of exhibiting, after its first edition three years ago. It\u2019s true. Leaving the <em>white box<\/em> maybe nothing new, others have done it before, turning the hotel into a place for art exhibitions. Maybe the narrow corridors covered up to the ceiling with authentic motifs have above all a function of asphyxia, far removed from subsequent modern movements. It could also be that the double beds which occupy a major part of the space \u2013 making it impossible to be in a room with more than five people\u2014are just winks at a <em>certain piece <\/em>by Tracey Emin, or to the wrapped up and comfortable nature that characterises a greater part of our emerging artists. Who knows.   <\/p>\n<p>The fact is that <em>Room Art Fair<\/em>melds interiority with precocity, the many fresh-faced artists wandering around generating a sensation of horizontal proximity, absolute values, where relations substitute the content. Things are such that one moment you see a gallerist lounging in an armchair doing some embroidery, the next you greet a young rising star in the stairs, and then you end up being invited to have your photograph taken in the bathroom. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s beyond a joke with the photographs, incidentally, they\u2019re a damned plague. The <em>photo call<\/em> is a constant possibility in all the stands where mothballs are conspicuous for their absence, i.e. in all the galleries that figure as modern spaces, those that have just begun or those that are overcoming the crisis whatever way they can. Because in <em>Room Art Fair <\/em> there are also lot of galleries of realist painting, with that veneer of the antique, a lot of Sal\u00f3n des <em>Refus\u00e9s<\/em> here the brushstroke and the impression continue to be the insuperable horizon of our time. As far as cameras are concerned, the absurd and the <em>parajoda<\/em> [sic] reach the point that, faced with a place where it&#8217;s all the rage to announce the existence of another fair in MAD  \u00abfairly similar to<em> Room Art Fair<\/em> but only for photographs\u00bb, one just has to succumb to the obligation of voluntarily offering to photograph the announcer of the stand on a bed. The triumph I suppose of the relational paradigm. <\/p>\n<p>And as so many close relations and personal ties are overwhelming (I intuit) given the extent that the public finds itself accustomed \u2013 as is my case \u2013 to a vertical relation with visual culture \u2014the same afternoon I visited  <em>Room Art Fair<\/em> I passed by  <em>El espejismo ex\u00f3tico<\/em>, the exhibition at the Casa Sin Fin, where Juli\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez unfurled a formidable theory about postcolonial thought <em>avant la lettre<\/em> of so many French figures from between the wars; I humbly took notes, copying down the master\u2019s words. And clearly, when the element of mastery blurs, when <em>networking<\/em>, the forging of a community and homely spirit take over the control tower, then a person interested in learning has to accept the exchanging of visiting cards as the next best thing.  <\/p>\n<p>But here we\u2019ve come to <em>something else<\/em>, if we think back on the main function of the fair, as a varied showcase, a place to exhibit stuff, promote it and trade it; which were the best pieces spotted in the flock?  One succulent example is <em>Face 2 Face<\/em> by Mario Bastian, the installation of the space, In-sonora that carries out a sort of sound map of variable geometry on your face when you enter the bathroom, a <em>hi-fi<\/em> version of the gaze of the Gorgon and passing of time that anybody experiments at some point in the morning, every day of the year.  <em>Each time the end of the world<\/em>, as Derrida might say. <\/p>\n<p>Highly appealing are also the galleries Factor\u00eda de Arte y Desarrollo or SC Gallery, whose catalogue of urban artists (Boris Hooper, Vinz, El Tono, Wester Collective) stands out above other similar proposals. In Factor\u00eda de Arte y Desarrollo, on the other hand, I discovered Jorge de la Cruz, an excellent drawer whose animalist imaginary and social obsessions resulted particularly striking; he works, for example, with the fights between the mafias that corner the market of cuddly toys from cartoons on a human scale. Not so long ago we saw a fight between Sponge Bob and Hello Kitty. 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