Selfies of the past: Swiss Artist Garbade in Toledo

The exhibition "Selfies of the past" by Swiss artist Daniel Garbade, and curated by Nuria Delgado, closes the inaugural exhibition cycle of the San Felipe Neri Oratory, a new museum space in Toledo.
September 17 to December 31, 2022.
Tuesday till Saturday:
10am - 12 am and 6pm - 8 pm

The oratory of San Felipe Neri is an exceptional setting; an architectural blank canvas, now desecrated, where Garbade reflects on time and its capture, on art as an imperishable presence and essence of its time.
El Greco's "La Trinidad" created for the Santo Domingo de Silos monastery in Toledo and currently in the Prado Museum, which served as inspiration for Picasso's "El Guernica"; is now also a source of inspiration for Garbade in this exhibition.
Garbade fragments "La Trinidad" into 15 moving canvases. They are collages of drawings that update the original work, like his famous Toledo sky now recreated by hundreds of moving planes. The living pieces of the collage come off, fall to the ground, escape from the canvas and participate in their time. Thus, the original work is fragmented to take on a new meaning, like the fragmented life of the viewer narrated to reconstruct it, to capture its essence.
Garbade gives us the opportunity to explore the viewer's current relationship with the work of art, demanding a greater protagonist, being part of the work, and capturing it by including oneself in it. Selfies are therefore now the tool for contemplating art, the new way of approaching it. Selfies are the new souvenir of the artistic experience, and tuning it with filters transforms us into an artist. Selfies as a collage of life, of emotions, of kidnapped and diluted time, where we appropriate everything we desire, and also art.
Thus, during the show, Garbade invites the viewer to take a selfie in front of his work and send it to him, to create together a new work in real-time, in constant creation and change, which will be projected in the oratory; being the viewer now, also creator and protagonist of the exhibited work

Belenartspace
Calle Belen 5
28004 Madrid, Spain
gestion@belenartspace.com
Nuria Delgado
director@vesaniart.com
Tel: +34622939952

Belenartspace organizes and promotes exhibitions and artists in Spain and abroad. Promoting shows by public organizations like the Consorcio de Toledo with its Oratorio de Felipe de Neri, a new museum space in Toledo. Spain, together with Vesaniart Gallery,Málaga.

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