Regina de Miguel
21 Nov 2008 - 11 Jan 2009
REGINA DE MIGUEL
"El aire aún no respirado"
November 21, 2008 – January 11 2009
MUSAC’s Laboratorio 987 to host Spanish artist Regina de Miguel’s first solo exhibition
Title: El aire aún no respirado
Artist: Regina de Miguel (Malaga, 1977)
Curator: Tania Pardo
Venue: Laboratorio 987, MUSAC
Dates: November 2008 – 11 January 2009
In her work, Regina de Miguel (Malaga, 1977), addresses concepts ranging from travel, memory, the void, space or architecture to one’s sense of place. The drawings and paintings brought together under the exhibition El aire aún no respirado [The air not yet breathed] -title based on an idea by the Smithsons for the “house of the future”- reveal different subjects inhabiting heterogeneous surfaces. The effect is initially hard to apprehend, with seemingly unrelated images suspended over the surface’s void. On a second reading, these combinations of dreamlike imaginations and architectural spaces start to make sense. As if on a survey map, the artist lays out her reality, weighing up intangible psychological and social magnitudes. For this exhibition, Regina de Miguel has also created a model of a reconstructed space with a video projected inside that reveals the memory of inhabited spaces.
De Miguel’s drawings, executed both in pencil on paper and in digital format, and her acrylic paintings with their exquisite, practically imperceptible brushstroke, insinuate urban cartographical references based on metaphorical scenarios that are deciphered in the maps’ legends. She thus underlines the multifaceted and fluctuating relationships that define an individual’s reality and the different bonds established with the environment, applying a scientist’s meticulous attention to detail, as if she were recording readings of mental or sentimental states.
Regina de Miguel’s work, based essentially on drawings, painting, models and video, reflects upon the liveability of spaces, with an implicit consideration of travel and sense of place. Her work develops from her own experiences and perceptions, by way of an architecture of recollections that tap into the world of memories. Her use of architecture, and specifically of interiors, is apparent in projects such as Terrain Vague, carried out between 2006 and 2007. Here she focused on the relationship between architecture and memory, with an implicit presence of travel. In other works, namely the series Tránsito (2004) and Mapa del astronauta (2005) she again questioned the opposition between natural and artificial, constructed and destructed, physical and mental, reality and desire.
De Miguel’s works are essentially maps that she traces to measure her emotions, such as Mapa del futuro abandonado (2007), Mapa del presente accidentalizado (2007) or Nuestra existencia sismográfica (2007). Maps that offer the viewer a reflection of his or her own experience, as well as an insight into the artist’s own intimate universe.
Moving along the same lines, Regina de Miguel explains one of her most recent works, El lugar de lo concreto, to be shown at MUSAC’s Laboratorio 987: “My work intends to approach reality by reworking images that we usually receive as cultural representations (particularly those linked to studies of space), geared towards education or in compliance with a certain logic or official line. My work takes this material as a basis and replaces those contents with others more closely related to everyday life, social environments and the estrangement that the exercise provides. I derive a set of maps, of experience indexes, as metaphorical scenarios for reflecting upon the city and how we relate to spaces, where memory stands out as the most trustworthy instrument.”
Regina de Miguel explains how her piece Habitación Doble / Travelogue suggests a fluctuating set design, based on a picture downloaded from the internet of a space that in the past was devoted to tourism and entertainment. The image of an old gymnasium served as the basis for a “model with the structure of the room and a 3-D animation of the very same space relocated geographically according to a set of coordinates provided by the software. 39o29 ́15” N and 1o 38’ 22” W (the city she was working from) on a summer’s day”. Regina de Miguel turns her gaze towards virtual imaginary spaces and offers us artificial paradises that colonise our perception of space.
Regina de Miguel, biography
Regina de Miguel (Malaga, 1977), holds a degree in Fine Arts by the Polytechnic University of Valencia, with a specialty in Public Art. She has held important solo exhibitions, including Spatial turn at the Maisterravalbuena Gallery, Madrid (2007 2008) or Borderland at Valle Ortí and Edgar Neville both in Valencia in 2006. Her group exhibitions include, Ajenos, Arte emergente en España, Palermo (2008); Aptitud para las armas, Sala Amadía, Madrid (2008); Aquí y ahora, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid (2007); Generación 2006. La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2006); as well as a number of fairs and biennials, including VOLTA 08, Basel; ARCO’08, Madrid; Valencia Art 07 or Foro Sur 07, Cáceres. She has been awarded a number of prizes, including the XXX Bancaja Painting and Sculpture Award, IVAM, Valencia (2003); 8th Colegio Administrators’ Society Award, Valencia (2007); Generación 2006 Mention of Honour, Obra Social Caja Madrid (2006); Ciudad de Burriana Visual Arts Award, Castellón (2006) or INJUVE Art Festival (2005).
"El aire aún no respirado"
November 21, 2008 – January 11 2009
MUSAC’s Laboratorio 987 to host Spanish artist Regina de Miguel’s first solo exhibition
Title: El aire aún no respirado
Artist: Regina de Miguel (Malaga, 1977)
Curator: Tania Pardo
Venue: Laboratorio 987, MUSAC
Dates: November 2008 – 11 January 2009
In her work, Regina de Miguel (Malaga, 1977), addresses concepts ranging from travel, memory, the void, space or architecture to one’s sense of place. The drawings and paintings brought together under the exhibition El aire aún no respirado [The air not yet breathed] -title based on an idea by the Smithsons for the “house of the future”- reveal different subjects inhabiting heterogeneous surfaces. The effect is initially hard to apprehend, with seemingly unrelated images suspended over the surface’s void. On a second reading, these combinations of dreamlike imaginations and architectural spaces start to make sense. As if on a survey map, the artist lays out her reality, weighing up intangible psychological and social magnitudes. For this exhibition, Regina de Miguel has also created a model of a reconstructed space with a video projected inside that reveals the memory of inhabited spaces.
De Miguel’s drawings, executed both in pencil on paper and in digital format, and her acrylic paintings with their exquisite, practically imperceptible brushstroke, insinuate urban cartographical references based on metaphorical scenarios that are deciphered in the maps’ legends. She thus underlines the multifaceted and fluctuating relationships that define an individual’s reality and the different bonds established with the environment, applying a scientist’s meticulous attention to detail, as if she were recording readings of mental or sentimental states.
Regina de Miguel’s work, based essentially on drawings, painting, models and video, reflects upon the liveability of spaces, with an implicit consideration of travel and sense of place. Her work develops from her own experiences and perceptions, by way of an architecture of recollections that tap into the world of memories. Her use of architecture, and specifically of interiors, is apparent in projects such as Terrain Vague, carried out between 2006 and 2007. Here she focused on the relationship between architecture and memory, with an implicit presence of travel. In other works, namely the series Tránsito (2004) and Mapa del astronauta (2005) she again questioned the opposition between natural and artificial, constructed and destructed, physical and mental, reality and desire.
De Miguel’s works are essentially maps that she traces to measure her emotions, such as Mapa del futuro abandonado (2007), Mapa del presente accidentalizado (2007) or Nuestra existencia sismográfica (2007). Maps that offer the viewer a reflection of his or her own experience, as well as an insight into the artist’s own intimate universe.
Moving along the same lines, Regina de Miguel explains one of her most recent works, El lugar de lo concreto, to be shown at MUSAC’s Laboratorio 987: “My work intends to approach reality by reworking images that we usually receive as cultural representations (particularly those linked to studies of space), geared towards education or in compliance with a certain logic or official line. My work takes this material as a basis and replaces those contents with others more closely related to everyday life, social environments and the estrangement that the exercise provides. I derive a set of maps, of experience indexes, as metaphorical scenarios for reflecting upon the city and how we relate to spaces, where memory stands out as the most trustworthy instrument.”
Regina de Miguel explains how her piece Habitación Doble / Travelogue suggests a fluctuating set design, based on a picture downloaded from the internet of a space that in the past was devoted to tourism and entertainment. The image of an old gymnasium served as the basis for a “model with the structure of the room and a 3-D animation of the very same space relocated geographically according to a set of coordinates provided by the software. 39o29 ́15” N and 1o 38’ 22” W (the city she was working from) on a summer’s day”. Regina de Miguel turns her gaze towards virtual imaginary spaces and offers us artificial paradises that colonise our perception of space.
Regina de Miguel, biography
Regina de Miguel (Malaga, 1977), holds a degree in Fine Arts by the Polytechnic University of Valencia, with a specialty in Public Art. She has held important solo exhibitions, including Spatial turn at the Maisterravalbuena Gallery, Madrid (2007 2008) or Borderland at Valle Ortí and Edgar Neville both in Valencia in 2006. Her group exhibitions include, Ajenos, Arte emergente en España, Palermo (2008); Aptitud para las armas, Sala Amadía, Madrid (2008); Aquí y ahora, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid (2007); Generación 2006. La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2006); as well as a number of fairs and biennials, including VOLTA 08, Basel; ARCO’08, Madrid; Valencia Art 07 or Foro Sur 07, Cáceres. She has been awarded a number of prizes, including the XXX Bancaja Painting and Sculpture Award, IVAM, Valencia (2003); 8th Colegio Administrators’ Society Award, Valencia (2007); Generación 2006 Mention of Honour, Obra Social Caja Madrid (2006); Ciudad de Burriana Visual Arts Award, Castellón (2006) or INJUVE Art Festival (2005).