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).

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).

Reale Academia di Spagna in Rome (RAER)'s Website_

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.