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It is shown with the Norwegian artist participates in the art section of the festival La Mar de Músicas.
The Casino and the Town Hall are the settings chosen by the author and can be visited until 31 August
About two thousand liters of black oil flooding from Wednesday, the 16th, the Palacio del Marqués de Casa Tilly, today the Casino of Cartagena.
It is a part of the exhibition of the Norwegian Oil Per Barclay Rooms within the programming of the Sea Art. The Town Hall also hosts a great artist of this installation consisting of pipes of wine.
With the Sea of Music, organized by the city, this contemporary reaches Cartagena creator of the hand of one of his personal brand fluids as language and adapting to different architectural spaces. Expose After Oil Rooms in Madrid, Cartagena is the lucky to see first hand this work, one of its reference works, as this morning claimed the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, during his presentation to the media.
The Casino is witnessed today Barclay's work that has invaded the main living area by a large container of black oil acting as if it were a large mirror. Is that the meaning of this part, the game of reflexes and sensation causing distress to anyone who looks into the beauty that gives us this typical space region, as explained by the artist himself.
The uncertainty of not knowing that there is another below sensations caused by this dam, encountering a piece that can look, you can zoom in, but you can not touch.
WINE AS BLOOD
The Casino is a part of this show complete with the enabled at the Palace Hall, and consists of a pneumatic system that drives fluid into a hinged transparent tube extending through the building.
Barclay explained this morning that this is a metaphor or simulation of blood flow like a living being whose comparison is performed through wine.
Taking this simulation of blood with wine, Barclay has also designed for the occasion an original label for a limited edition of 250 bottles.
Jumillano Crapula Wines winery is in charge of processing the proceeds will go to a non-profit organization of Cartagena, as announced its owner, Gabriel Martinez.
Home of Submarine Shop can be purchased these bottles of wine.
It will also be at 19 am when exposure Oil Rooms at the Palace Hall was inaugurated and be open until August 31.
THE ARTIST
Per Barclay (Oslo, 1955) studied art history in Bergen (Norway).
That's where, under the influence of Edward Munch, began working with the concepts of tension and drama that are the basis of his pieces.
In 1979 Norway leaving to start his training and career in Italy, where the art povera still dominates the art scene.
He first studied at the Istituto Statale Florence, then at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna (1981) and two years later in Rome.
Since 1984 exhibited his work regularly in galleries and Italian and Norwegian once internationally recognized exhibit passes in the main centers of contemporary European art.
After passing through Naples moving to Turin city that comes into direct contact with the arte povera artist.
Sensitive to Italian art treasures, his works are softened and estheticize during this period from which employs the oil and water as pictorial elements, and steel and glass as structural materials of its parts.
His series work includes interior flooded with different liquids, houses, sound installations and inflatable shapes as well as some scans photographic murals.
Among his most important exhibitions include the MOI Deptford Street (London, 2000), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Oslo, 1998), CCC (Tours, 2001), Michel Rein Gallery (Paris, 2001) or the Crystal Palace (Museum Reina Sofía National Art Centre) (Madrid, 2003).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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