Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena
02 - 25 Mar 2012
JUAN-PEDRO FABRA GUEMBERENA
Nessun Dorma
2 - 25 March, 2012
For his second solo-show at LAUTOM Contemporary, Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena presents new works consisting of sculpture and collages of painting, drawing and video. Conflicts and contradictions are recurrent themes in Fabra Guemberena's work. Digging deep into the darkest side of the human psyche and pairing it with the most sublime beauty of aesthetics, Fabra Guemberena also manages to mix in a sense of humour.
Appropriated material of different enactments of situations, psychologically charged by violence, sex or terror on flights, collected from a wide variety of films; commercials, home-videos, porn-flicks etc., are the raw-material used for the video-collage Noventa y tres, 2012. Clips from high-end and super aesthetically chiselled Hollywood motion pictures and so called “drama-documentaries” fictionalizing on what might have happened within the United Airlines flight 93 just before it crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on 9/11 are among the more prominent themes in the non-linear and multi-crescendi film. The numerous cross-references touch on thematics of politics, religion, radicalism, fantasy and fiction and how we take delight in being seduced into believing in something as “the truth”.
For this exhibition Fabra Guemberena produced two new works in the Campaign Banner-series: no II and III. The texts on the banners are taken from many different sources including a training book for soldiers, Walt Whitman's poetry, or from expressions among Confederation enthusiasts. Taken from their original context and put into a new reality, the meaning of the sentences or slogans are completely changed. The sculpture, |||| ||, 2012 is also part of a series of spatial, architectural structures, which emulates structures used both historically and today as gallows.
The technique used for the collage-drawing Hustler Holiday 2008, 2012 might be described as a “scuroscuro”, dark on dark, in contrast to the well known technique of “chiaroscuro”. Hustler Holiday 2008, undertakes a visualization of the complete visual pleasure one gets from one issue of a whole pornographic magazine, page by page, whilst at the same time also camouflaging it by the use of excessive ink in layers.
With gratitude to Klas Eriksson and Konstnärsnämnden, Sweden.
Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena (1971) is born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm in 2002. In 2003 he took part in Delays and Revolutions at the Biennale di Venezia. Two of his last solo shows are The South Will Rise Again at Røda Sten in Gothenburg and YANKEE GO HOME but please take me with you at Nordin Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden
Nessun Dorma
2 - 25 March, 2012
For his second solo-show at LAUTOM Contemporary, Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena presents new works consisting of sculpture and collages of painting, drawing and video. Conflicts and contradictions are recurrent themes in Fabra Guemberena's work. Digging deep into the darkest side of the human psyche and pairing it with the most sublime beauty of aesthetics, Fabra Guemberena also manages to mix in a sense of humour.
Appropriated material of different enactments of situations, psychologically charged by violence, sex or terror on flights, collected from a wide variety of films; commercials, home-videos, porn-flicks etc., are the raw-material used for the video-collage Noventa y tres, 2012. Clips from high-end and super aesthetically chiselled Hollywood motion pictures and so called “drama-documentaries” fictionalizing on what might have happened within the United Airlines flight 93 just before it crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on 9/11 are among the more prominent themes in the non-linear and multi-crescendi film. The numerous cross-references touch on thematics of politics, religion, radicalism, fantasy and fiction and how we take delight in being seduced into believing in something as “the truth”.
For this exhibition Fabra Guemberena produced two new works in the Campaign Banner-series: no II and III. The texts on the banners are taken from many different sources including a training book for soldiers, Walt Whitman's poetry, or from expressions among Confederation enthusiasts. Taken from their original context and put into a new reality, the meaning of the sentences or slogans are completely changed. The sculpture, |||| ||, 2012 is also part of a series of spatial, architectural structures, which emulates structures used both historically and today as gallows.
The technique used for the collage-drawing Hustler Holiday 2008, 2012 might be described as a “scuroscuro”, dark on dark, in contrast to the well known technique of “chiaroscuro”. Hustler Holiday 2008, undertakes a visualization of the complete visual pleasure one gets from one issue of a whole pornographic magazine, page by page, whilst at the same time also camouflaging it by the use of excessive ink in layers.
With gratitude to Klas Eriksson and Konstnärsnämnden, Sweden.
Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena (1971) is born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm in 2002. In 2003 he took part in Delays and Revolutions at the Biennale di Venezia. Two of his last solo shows are The South Will Rise Again at Røda Sten in Gothenburg and YANKEE GO HOME but please take me with you at Nordin Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden