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Antonio Gómez Ribelles presents 'Lugares del olvido', an exhibition project that talks about those spaces and objects that at some point fell into oblivion.
The old photograph joins the snapshots of the artist's travels through archaeological sites and museums, on which he paints and draws.
The temporary exhibition opens on Friday, October 26, at 8:00 pm, at the Roman Theater Museum in Cartagena and may be visited until January 14.
'Places of oblivion' is an exhibition project that talks about those spaces and objects that at some point fell into oblivion, and now recovered, collectively some, but above all individual, allow us the autobiographical inscription on the amazement of the meeting .
The use of old photography is combined with the photograph of the artist's travels through archaeological sites and museums, his own images, which he manipulates equally and on which he paints and draws.
Gómez rescues from his childhood the memory of his first archaeological visit to the Greco Roman city of Ampurias, his first sensations when breathing the same air and being in that place that, rescued from memory, had survived.
Thus, in his series 'Lugares', he shows us those forgotten fragments as stories of a story such as in the funerary monument of Ampurias or the tomb of Marathon.
The artist shows the footprint of man in the landscape, in an almost innocent way, with the simple image of the canal that carried the water to the Roman city of Segóbriga, or that view of the stands of the Roman Theater of Cartagena, a building rescued from the antiquity full of identity, but where the traces of its long history are perceived.
Here the layers and glazes overlap as strata and are witnesses of time.
In the series 'Objects', fragments that belonged to the place, to its people and to a time, a puzzle where parts are missing sometimes take center stage.
Ribelles recovers his family memory in the series 'Tiempo', where the familiar album is the source of inspiration that allows him to reconstruct the family story filtered by the feelings.
A story that is enriched with memories and postcards, they invite the trip, the reunion with history.
Ampurias, Segóbriga, Cartagena, are the memory of having been in a place at a specific time as "the Lesnehr family" by the sea, leaving the family album of Ribelles.
Antonio Gómez is a multidisciplinary artist;
painter, photographer, poet and writer, he also wanted to leave his notepad in the form of 'wax tablets', evoking the classic world where they were used as portable and reusable writing support.
To his life experience, the trip, the place, the time, his extensive training and research is added, creating an exhibition project where the artist has experienced a symbiosis with the places, has breathed the air of the lost places, has dived in the libraries and books, and immerses us in Places of Oblivion, where the creative process reflects that intention to reconnect with the past as a meeting point and contemporary dialogue, and presents a work born from the soul of time.
An exhibition that opens in the Roman Theater Museum of Cartagena.
In this context, the very presence of Roman architecture in the room gives the exhibition an exceptional character by establishing a rich dialogue between the ancient stones and the contemporary work.
In a Roman theater that appeared in the heart of the city, hidden by various neighborhoods, which are also remnants of history, in a forgotten place recovered from memory.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The theme of the work of Antonio Gómez (Valencia 1962) has been close to memory for years, applied above all to the study and use as intellectual, reflective and artistic material of the family photo album, the old photographs that make up a frieze on which it is supported the construction of memories and oblivion, and the reconstruction of memory and its falsity, all as a support for the artistic work, as a process of construction of history.
The use of printed photography in artistic papers assimilates it as an artistic material, as well as allowing internalization as a personal memory of images that, in many cases, correspond to times and events impossible to know by the artist.
Painting over these images creates dialogue with them, generates stories and turns them into something superior to the mere family photo.
His latest exhibitions use the theme of memory and develop it: The betrayal of memory, Palacio Molina de Cartagena 2012;
Word, MUBAM 2014;
There was a house, Sala El aljibe of the University of Granada 2014;
Signs of identity, CHYS Gallery 2015;
In a box of cookies, Los Bańos de Alhama de Murcia Archaeological Museum 2015;
Quiromance
Verb study, 2017;
The reflection of a fragment, General Library María Moliner, University of Murcia, 2017;
Dialogues, Ramón Gaya Museum, 2018, as well as in some collective exhibitions, book covers, posters and theater collaborations, etc.
Since 1984, a total of 17 individual exhibitions and a multitude of collective exhibitions.
He keeps the blog 'El Aljibe' where his own texts are collected, poetic or thought, almost always related to painting and creative processes.
The temporary exhibition opens on Friday, October 26, at 8:00 pm, at the Museum of the Roman Theater in Cartagena and may be visited until January 14.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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