1. Art and Diseño

FOROSUR
Transhumance III
in contemporary culture and art
Centro Cultural San Jorge
School of Performing Arts of Extremadura
24 - 25 October 2014
Gabinete
foto
Contemporary photography. Twelve: artists, projects, galleries…
Participating Artists and Galleries
Natalia Pastor
Galería Guillermina Caicoya (3)
Galería Guillermina Caicoya’s exhibition programme is focused on young and mid-career contemporary artists with whom it forges long-term
relationships.
The gallery is presenting NITRASTUR, a project comprising a suite of photos by the multidisciplinary artist Natalia Pastor in a poetic exploration of
the landscape and architecture of a vast industrial complex from the 1950s.
Carlos Ventós
Validfoto Galería (2)
Founded in 2009, Galería Validfoto specialises in photography by emerging and mid-career artists from Spain and worldwide.
The gallery is presenting a project by Carlos Ventós (Barcelona, 1962) a self-taught photographer who focuses on urban landscape in his series Urban
Show (2008 - 2013), a new project on macro-cities with property bubbles that examines the intersections between humans and the built space.
Jorge Fuembuena
The New Gallery (1)
One of the founding goals of New Gallery is to serve as an international platform for its roster of mainly Spanish artists.
The gallery is presenting the project “Inside Insect” by Jorge Fuembuena, a photographer from Zaragoza who explores the limits of the subject and
the fragile boundary that separates the individual from the other, and investigates the relations between man and his environs.
Manolo Bautista
Galería Paula Alonso (10)
Galería Paula Alonso was founded with the goal of promoting contemporary art practices by Spanish and international art practitioners, promoting the
development of site-specific projects which help to analyse the cultural contexts they are grounded in.
The gallery is presenting Lightwrap, a project by Manolo Bautista that is part of his latest experimentation with the interaction between actual
physical elements and their contextualisation and shifts in meaning through video-projection, delving into the concept of the importance of light in the
sculpture object and its potential to simulate a virtual environment.
Miguel Ángel Tornero
Galería Juan Silió (8)
Ever since it opened to the public in May 1988, Galería Juan Silió has focused on cutting-edge art and over the years it has gradually been
incorporating more photography, new technologies and young artists.
The gallery is presenting work by Miguel Ángel Tornero (Baeza, 1978), an artist who uses photography and collage to explore the fuzzy borders
between reality and fiction from the complex nature of the everyday. Tornero expands his work towards places that are hard to describe and where we
often witness a mutiny against everything that was once familiar to us.
Andrés Pachón
Galería Ángeles Baños (12)
The discourse developed by Galería Ángeles Baños, a gallery lending special importance to drawing and all its contemporary derivations, is focused
on new art practices.
The gallery is presenting a project by Andrés Pachón, who uses infographics and photomontages to intervene on original photos and videos and thus
produce a new document that uncovers the fictions of supposedly true studies, revealing the fantasy contained in the Western imaginary of an exotic
world.
Eduardo Arroyo
Galería Álvaro Alcázar (7)
Since opening in 2006, Galería Álvaro Alcázar has been centring its work on the dissemination of contemporary art, with a programme based on
representing and publicising artists working across all disciplines.
The gallery is presenting a project by Eduardo Arroyo (Madrid, 1937). Seduced by the narrative power of photography, Arroyo is a regular browser at
street markets, where he finds and compiles images that he later intervenes through collage and painting to create a kind of familiar memory.
Ángel Marcos
Galería Javier Silva (4)
Galería Javier Silva (Valladolid, 2012) was created as an open and dynamic project to stimulate reflection and debate on present-day art and culture
by experimenting with their respective manifold languages.
The gallery is presenting a collaborative project with Ángel Marcos (Medina del Campo, 1955), a precursor of built photography, showing staged
images and constructions connected to a vernacular that mines the generation of desires and needs within society in their intersection with political,
economic and religious systems.
Dionisio González
Galería Yusto/Giner (6)
Galería Yusto/Giner is an industrial space devoted to Spanish and international contemporary art with a project offering a renewed insight into
present-day art.
The gallery is presenting a project by Dionisio González (Gijon, 1965), an artist who rethinks the forms of resistance against chaos through his
evocative photography-based work.
Joan Fontcuberta
Galería Gema Llamazares (5)
Gema Llamazares Galería de Arte (Gijon, 2005) was founded with a mandate to promote and disseminate contemporary art.
The gallery is presenting a project by Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955), an artist who works across the whole breadth of the field of photography,
as a creator, teacher, critic, exhibition curator and historian.
Pablo Genovés
Galería Pilar Serra (9)
Galería Pilar Serra opened its door in 1972 as Galería Estiarte and then changed its name four years ago. The gallery centres on the promotion and
dissemination of contemporary art, working to ensure that its roster of artists is well represented in museum exhibition and in public and private
collections.
The gallery is presenting a project by Pablo Genovés (Madrid, 1959), who presents introspective territories half-way between fantasy and reverie
which are rendered in a combination of digital techniques and painterly elements extracted from vintage postcards. The outcome is a hybrid language
somewhere between collage and photography.
Manuel Franquelo
Twin Gallery (11)
Twin Gallery is a space of possibility, a rapprochement to contemporary artistic creation that offers a youthful rigorous insight into the contemporary
art of our time.
The gallery is presenting a selection of photographs by Manuel Franquelo Giner (Madrid, 1990) —series “Containers” and “Los constructores”—
produced with a personal technique merging handmade, hi-tech and human processes as a support to render his research in the field of sociological
theory.
FOROSUR_CÁCERES_14. Transhumance III in contemporary culture and art
FOROSUR_DEBATE and Gabinete foto. Friday 24 – Sunday 26 October 2014.
WORKSHOPS. Wednesday 22 - Sunday 26 October 2014.
EXHIBITIONS. Friday 24 October – Sunday 23 November 2014.
PROGRAMME
forosur_debate • Conversations on: Contemporary photography heritage. In search of tomorrow’s artistic heritage. Centro
Cultural San Jorge. Filmoteca de Extremadura. 25 - 26 October.
forosur_exhibitions GAIA, exhibition by guest artist Pierre Gonnord. Palacio Hernando de Ovando. 24 October - 2
November. Curated by Carmen F. Ortiz.
Landscape as Contemporary Narration. Alcobendas Collection Sala de Arte El Brocense. 24 October - 22 November. Curated
by José María Díaz-Maroto.
The Deconstruction of the Landscape Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cáceres, Palacio de Toledo-Moctezuma. 24 - 26
October. Curated by Manuel Rocha Iturbide.
forosur_workshops • The Photographic Personal Project. Thinking, developing and advancing the photographic work of art in
today’s world.
• Meanings of the Image. Analysing various approaches to reading the image, starting out from the aesthetic experience,
audiovisual literacy, the narrative, cultures, politics, the body and biography. Escuela de Bellas Artes “Eulogio Blasco”,
Diputación de Cáceres. 22 - 26 October.
Open Studio Cáceres. Guided visits to studios of following artists: Ana H. del Amo; Andrés Talavero; Sebastián; Matilde
Granado Belvis; César David; Hilario Bravo Maldonado; Roberto Massó. 24 - 25 October.
Gabinete foto A selection of 12 projects dedicated to modern and contemporary photography represented by renowned
galleries and publishers in our art market. Centro Cultural San Jorge. Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Extremadura. 24 26 October.