Portal de Cartagena
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Autopsies Pavilion, a place heavily connoted by the role he has played for three centuries and a paradigmatic example of medical building by the standards of sanitation force in the eighteenth century, is placed in close relationship with the mechanisms of art through a Emerging Artists rigorous project.
Hosted by its unique architecture, this procedure uses the characteristics of the building to show as if it were a late dissection, traces the scars of a society deeply affected by amnesia.
Araceli Martinez developed a work supported by the mechanisms of the art audiovisual and shows a group of people, who face the camera or viewer act to erase the obsessions that can not be detached in the everyday.
The City of Cartagena, Cartagena Port of Cultures and the Institute of Youth in the Region of Murcia through Laboratorio de Arte Joven, have joined forces in this project intended to strengthen and promote those manifestations of emerging contemporary art.
The infinity of information and images spill over into contemporary society shape a society increasingly sensitive to the image where the memory, along with their means, transforms.
The overabundance of information and media-generated images, becomes instant communication at the expense of temporal coherence pursued the story of events in memory registry.
The city is a constant victim of its visual context.
The visual cycle that could belong to assume that the purpose of the image instead of memory outside of forgetting.
An oversight that, according to Deleuze
From the project 'Oblivion Society', work in progress (2005-2008), artist Araceli Martinez tries to find out through interviews with anonymous people what words they want to forget.
The initial objective of the project is to analyze and study the process of forgetting through performance, photography and video art.
The project offers, starting in a symbolic gesture, a laying of the forgotten.
The artist writes on the foreheads of the participants, the words previously selected by them with a black pen.
Facing the camera, delete the message.
In the assembly of the videos, has respected the time that each person uses to perform the action, but later the narrative sense of the image is reversed again conjuring previously deleted word, thus generating a time-another, dilated a time for reflection.
Many people have chosen names, dates of deaths of family or personal feelings that are collective.
Sometimes, people of different age, race, sex and nationality choose the same words to obsessively want to forget.
This mechanism can function as a symbolic exercise of awareness of what one wants to forget, working out like a catharsis or installed in the attention to the problem of the self.
One of the objectives of the project is to analyze the context and history of the city where the person lives influences their choice.
The last phase of the project, people recorded in Berlin, is to inquire about what words you wish to erase in a city with a history as impressive and meaningful to the Western world.
The specific intention is to analyze where the remains of memory and collective forgetting.
The result of the project so far are more than two hundred people recorded in Spain (Murcia, Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona), Italy (Turin) and Germany (Berlin) that form a complete mosaic conceptual concerns about contemporary society.
The exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday, 10 to 14 hours.
The whole process of the project is available online at the following address:
www.societyofoblivion.wordpress.com
ARTISTIC CURRICULUM
Araceli Martinez García.1983
Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Universidad de Murcia.
(2001/2006).
Artistic Scholarship:
Erasmus scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
Italy.
2003/2004.
Pensioners Fellowship Artists at the Palace of Quintanar.
Segovia.
2005.
Seneca Scholarship in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona.
2005/2006 year.
Artistic Training Fellowship at the Center for Free Art "Jose Maria Parraga '.
Murcia.
(2006/2007).
PAC MURCIA Fellowship Artist in Residence Glogauer, Berlin.
2008.
Seminars and courses:
Monographic Course Material / Heritage.
Two ways of production in contemporary art.
CENDEAC.
Murcia.
2002.
Monographic course, 'Cartographies of the body.
The dimensions in contemporary art. "
CENDEAC.
Murcia.
2003.
Theoretical-practical seminar: 'Performance the body: A subjective history of Body Art. "
Taught by artist Marina Abramovic.
CENDEAC.
Murcia.
2005.
Seminar 'Ceci est mon corps "Ceci est mon logiciet: Orlan and the experience of the flesh."
Taught by artist Orlan.CENDEAC.
Murcia.
2006.
Seminar 'Tècniques Alternatives: Liquid emulsions' taught by Professor Israel Ariño in the second semester of 2005/06 at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona.
Barcelona.
2006.
Seminar artist Franko B.
Cendeac.
Murcia.
2007.
'Memory and memory. "
Summer courses at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
Directed by D.
Pepe Martín.
July 2007.
'Memory and Contemporary Art. "
Summer School of the University Complutense of Madrid in San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
Directed by Anna Maria Guasch.
August 2007.
Theoretical and practical course; II Meetings of Art and Action: Ethics.
CENDEAC.
Murcia.
September 2007.
Exhibitions, competitions, awards and other equity.
First Prize for Sculpture, Create Young, City of Murcia.
Murcia.
2003.
Participation in the First National Painting Competition outdoor 'Villa de Molina de Segura.
Murcia.
2003.
Collective Exhibition of Fine Arts at the Chamber of Commerce.
(In the category of painting and sculpture).
Murcia.
2002 and 2003.
Cultural Week Exhibition at the Academy of Rome along with students of the Academy.
Rome.
2004.
Erasmus Fellows group exhibition at the Conservatory of Music San Pietro Majella.
Naples.
2004.
Participation in the Mars project.
live promoted by the Academy in Rome.
2004.
Finalist in the Young painters.
Alpheus.
Rome.
2004.
Solo exhibition at 'Rockdile'.
Rome.
2004.
Exhibitions: Alpheus, and Zoobar Exmagazzine.
Rome.
2004.
Group exhibition at the gallery Art-In.
In Trastevere.
Rome.
2004.
Exhibition at The Cultural Grande Cajamurcia week.
Along with Pedro Antonio Martínez Lozano.
Molina de Segura.
Murcia.
2004.
Local Award in National Painting Competition Villa de Molina.
Molina de Segura.
Murcia.
2005.
Collective Exhibition of Fine Arts students at the Museum of the University of Murcia.
Murcia.
2005.
Exhibition in the University Community Centre.
Students of the subject of Cyber.
Murcia.
2005.
Group exhibition at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Murcia.
Painting students.
Murcia.
2005.
Solo exhibition at the City of Lorquí.
Murcia.
2005.
Pensioners artists group exhibition at the Palace of Quintanar.
The Alhondiga.
Segovia.
2005.
Creajoven selected.
Painting category.
2006.
Local Award.
Comic category.
Young Mola art competition.
Molina de Segura.
Murcia.
2006.
First prize.
II Certamen de plein air painting.
Barrio San Jose Los Angeles.
Molina de Segura.
Murcia.
2006
Group exhibition with the cultural association Punctum.
Notte Bianca.
Rome.
2007.
Contest Creajoven selection.
Painting category.
Murcia.
2007.
Group exhibition with selected doors Creajoven 2007 in Castile.
Murcia.
Group exhibition with fine arts scholarship Párraga 2007.Murcia Center.
Collective Exhibition of Painting Biennial I Aljucer Casino.
Murcia.
2007.
First Prize for Sculpture.
Young Mola.
Molina de Segura.
Murcia.
2007.
Local Painting Prize.
Young Mola.
Molina de Segura.
Murcia.
2007.
Collective Exhibition Opening at Glogauer Studios, Berlin.
2008.
Participation in the International Video Art Show in Glogauer, Berlin.
2008.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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