30.11.15

Presentation of the book "Here & Now: Fraud", at Blanca Soto Gallery in Madrid_

"Here & Now: Fraud", a visual arts open call and digital book promoted by BLANCA SOTO Gallery in Madrid, in collaboration with AIR and curated by Imanol Marrodán.

Nearly 400 pages dedicated to contemporary thought and cutting-edge visual arts projects!

This publication includes a chapter entirely devoted to Jorge Conde's "The Mass-Man Project" (pages 53-73), an artistic investigation on massive events, crowds behavior, hiperconsumerism and show-business in contemporary Western societies. With this project, Jorge conde aims to visually elaborate on the main ideas stated by José Ortega y Gasset and Gilles Lipovetsky, two European philosophers from different schools and periods who reflected on how democracy and market society influence art and effectively shape our perception of the world.
Crowds Do Better, 2015 (fragmento). © Jorge Conde

 Access the book "Here & Now: Fraud" (in Spanish)_

 Event: "Here & Now 2015" exhibition opening and "Here & Now: Fraud" book presentation.
Date & Time: Wednesday December 2nd, 7 pm.
Venue: BLANCA SOTO Gallery. C/ Almaden, 13 - 28014 Madrid (Spain).


2.11.15

Jorge Conde, resident artist at the Reale Accademia di Spagna (RAER) in Rome, Italy_



As part of the institution's Artist Residency Program (ARP), Spanish artist Jorge Conde will create the project "A World-Size House" during the season 2015-2016, to be developed and exhibited at the Reale Accademia di Spagna in Rome (Italy).





Thanks to the MAEC-AECID Visual Arts Grant, awarded earlier this year, Jorge Conde will trace the contemporary cultural utopia and its current paradigms by exploring ten urban transformation projects with a clearly experimental, advanced aim, executed since the beginning of the XXI century in the Lazio region, primarily focusing on those located in the city of Rome.






7.5.15

"TST - Museum Findings", "The Scarred Transporter" video installation's fourth channel now finished_




TST - Museum Findings (2015). Video stills

Entirely shot in the London Film Museum, Museum Findings (2015)  is the forth and closing channel of "The Scarred Transporter" video installation. This highly complex video work is included in a work-in-progress, interdisciplinary investigation on consumerism as a form of utopian thinking and its impact on the environment/landscape. This project was launched in 2010 and first exhibited in PHotoEspaña (PHE’11), the photography and visual arts festival annually held in Madrid an Lisbon.

“The Scarred Transporter” project has been developed thanks to a production grant awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture (MECD) in 2013, and a Visual Arts grant awarded by the Catalan Government (CoNCA) in the same year.

Museum Findings (2015) ironically presents acceleration as a stereotypical attitude needed to experiment life to its full potential, a common place extensively used in contemporary societies, with myriad examples found in the movies, the show-business, publicity, politics, the mass media, and even in the most established cultural institutions worldwide.


17.2.15

"#esegalloquieremaíz" project exhibited at Rovira i Virgili University campus in Tarragona (Spain)_



Spanish artist Jorge Conde (Barcelona, 1968) defines #esegalloquieremaíz as an artistic reflection on the events that occurred in Iguala (Mexico) the night of September 26th, 2014 and the morning after: the brutal murders of 6 people and the subsequent disappearance of 43 students from the historical Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, also known as "normalistas".

This tragic event has caused great impact on the international public opinion and, beyond its atrocity and local peculiarities, reveals some problems common to most contemporary societies: corruption, greed, violence, impunity, the murky relationship between political power, organized crime and the media, crisis of values, opacity and institutional weakness, questionable separation of powers, devalued and slow implementation of justice, inequality, collective forgetfulness, etc.


The project title, "Ese gallo quiere maíz" (That Rooster Wants Some Corn) is a literal quote attributed to Mexican general and dictator Porfirio Diaz (1830-1915) who, when upset by the behavior of his detractors and political rivals, ordered to silence them with cash or bullets.

The artist, who lived in Mexico for a five-year period, has adapted some of his works to this theme and created some others specifically for this exhibition, which is born with a thought-provoking, constructive spirit.

Likewise, #esegalloquieremaíz project is an artistic artifact concerned with the social function of art, its ability to raise awareness and promote useful debates for the public at large. To do this, Jorge Conde addresses the tragedy of Ayotzinapa through a hybrid strategy designed to create synergies and complicities between reality and fiction, using techniques and resources from seemingly unrelated fields such as the visual arts (photography, video and installation), journalism (truthful and partially false narratives), political propaganda (prefabricated  storytelling) and historiography (compilations, archival footage and documents).

ARTIST: Jorge Conde
CURATORS: Aida Marín, Anna M. Andevert, Beatriz Luque & Magda Guillén
PLACE: Universitat Rovira i Virgili – URV (Campus Catalunya), Tarragona
DATES: February 11th - March 2nd, 2015
OPENING: Wednesday, February 5.30pm.
TIMING:
-5.30pm. Presentation and Lecture (Sala de Graus URV).
Presenters: Antonio Salcedo (Aula d’Art URV coordinator), Jorge Conde (visual artist), Aida Marín, Anna M. Andevert, Beatriz Luque, Magda Guillén (curators).
-6pm. Vernissage. Sala de Graus URV
-6.15pm. Exhibition opening. CRAI URV (Main library).
SPONSORED BY: Aula d'Art | Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) | Espai CRAI | "El Teler de Llum" Art Center, Tarragona

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