Álvaro Gil
05 Sep - 12 Oct 2014
ÁLVARO GIL
Monta Tu T-Rex Party
5 September - 12 October 2014
Sala Rekalde presents Monta Tu T-Rex Party exhibition by Álvaro Gil (Corella, Navarra, 1986), included in the barriek 2014 programme which puts on show the works of artists who have been awarded Grants for Artistic Creation by the Regional Council of Bizkaia.
The artist lives and works in Bilbao, where he studied Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. At the moment he is engaged in research endeavours in combination with his artistic practice, both of which is intimately linked and shares a common theme: the personalization of objects.
Another key aspect that runs naturally through Álvaro’s work involves assembly instructions. These began to form part of his discourse due to the constant need to transport his productions from one place to another. For logistic and practical reasons when dispatched and reassembled they had to be detachable and, making a virtue of this initial traumatic circumstance, he treated the question of demountability as a purely structural issue and, on occasions, as the ultimate aim of his sculptural pieces. Accordingly, the artist turned to what he judged to be the leading master in providing instructions for assembly and disassembly, Ikea.
Álvaro Gil always fondly remembers those walks round Ikea warehouses, where fragm ntation at the service of the functional and economical reaches its highest point. One of the giants of decoration and a worldwide creator of a vast lineage of “consumer-devourers” of a cheap, dismantleable and recombinable design that tastefully and subtly furnishes the possibility of including the buyer and potentially sensitive being devoted to construction and decoration, within its “domesticated design-driven” fabric.
THE ARTIST www.alvarogilsoldevilla.com
Álvaro Gil lives and works in Bilbao. He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, where he currently works as a research fellow concluding his PhD on the customization of vehicles. He complements his training with seminars given by Juan Luis Moraza (Bilbao Arte, 2014) and Francisco Javier San Martín (Bilbao Arte, 2011).
Since 2008 he has held several individual shows including Plastic sweet, artefactos para armar at the Raquel Ponce gallery (Madrid, 2012), Hágaselo usted mismo at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2012), DIY. Bricolajismos y otros menesteres hechos a medida at the Huarte Contemporary Art Centre (2013), and Brikokustom y Ornamento a medida at the Louis 21 gallery (Madrid, 2013-2014). In addition, among his recent artistic interventions are Dame + gasolina in the Mercado de la Ribera (Bilbao, 2014) and Diamond Beach on Trengandín beach (Noja, 2014).
At the collective level, he took part in the itinerant show Bosteko (2013) and Ertibil Bizkaia (2008, 2011, 2012, 2014), in the Explum (Puerto Lumbreras, Murcia, 2009) and Zinebi (Bilbao, 2008) festivals, and has exhibited in fairs including JUST MAD, SWAB and SUMMA. He also formed part of other collective shows such as RAL9005 at the Louis 21 gallery (Madrid, 2013), Back in/to black at the Louis 21 gallery (Palma de Mallorca, 2012) and Fluor in the General Assemblies of Bizkaia exhibition rooms (Bilbao, 2011).
He has received different recognitions including the Pamplona Young Artists 3rd Prize (2009), the Fundación Bilbao Arte residency scholarship (2014), the Plastic and Visual Arts Award in Navarre (2012-2013), and the Regional Council of Bizkaia Art Creation Grant (2012-2013).
Monta Tu T-Rex Party
5 September - 12 October 2014
Sala Rekalde presents Monta Tu T-Rex Party exhibition by Álvaro Gil (Corella, Navarra, 1986), included in the barriek 2014 programme which puts on show the works of artists who have been awarded Grants for Artistic Creation by the Regional Council of Bizkaia.
The artist lives and works in Bilbao, where he studied Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. At the moment he is engaged in research endeavours in combination with his artistic practice, both of which is intimately linked and shares a common theme: the personalization of objects.
Another key aspect that runs naturally through Álvaro’s work involves assembly instructions. These began to form part of his discourse due to the constant need to transport his productions from one place to another. For logistic and practical reasons when dispatched and reassembled they had to be detachable and, making a virtue of this initial traumatic circumstance, he treated the question of demountability as a purely structural issue and, on occasions, as the ultimate aim of his sculptural pieces. Accordingly, the artist turned to what he judged to be the leading master in providing instructions for assembly and disassembly, Ikea.
Álvaro Gil always fondly remembers those walks round Ikea warehouses, where fragm ntation at the service of the functional and economical reaches its highest point. One of the giants of decoration and a worldwide creator of a vast lineage of “consumer-devourers” of a cheap, dismantleable and recombinable design that tastefully and subtly furnishes the possibility of including the buyer and potentially sensitive being devoted to construction and decoration, within its “domesticated design-driven” fabric.
THE ARTIST www.alvarogilsoldevilla.com
Álvaro Gil lives and works in Bilbao. He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, where he currently works as a research fellow concluding his PhD on the customization of vehicles. He complements his training with seminars given by Juan Luis Moraza (Bilbao Arte, 2014) and Francisco Javier San Martín (Bilbao Arte, 2011).
Since 2008 he has held several individual shows including Plastic sweet, artefactos para armar at the Raquel Ponce gallery (Madrid, 2012), Hágaselo usted mismo at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2012), DIY. Bricolajismos y otros menesteres hechos a medida at the Huarte Contemporary Art Centre (2013), and Brikokustom y Ornamento a medida at the Louis 21 gallery (Madrid, 2013-2014). In addition, among his recent artistic interventions are Dame + gasolina in the Mercado de la Ribera (Bilbao, 2014) and Diamond Beach on Trengandín beach (Noja, 2014).
At the collective level, he took part in the itinerant show Bosteko (2013) and Ertibil Bizkaia (2008, 2011, 2012, 2014), in the Explum (Puerto Lumbreras, Murcia, 2009) and Zinebi (Bilbao, 2008) festivals, and has exhibited in fairs including JUST MAD, SWAB and SUMMA. He also formed part of other collective shows such as RAL9005 at the Louis 21 gallery (Madrid, 2013), Back in/to black at the Louis 21 gallery (Palma de Mallorca, 2012) and Fluor in the General Assemblies of Bizkaia exhibition rooms (Bilbao, 2011).
He has received different recognitions including the Pamplona Young Artists 3rd Prize (2009), the Fundación Bilbao Arte residency scholarship (2014), the Plastic and Visual Arts Award in Navarre (2012-2013), and the Regional Council of Bizkaia Art Creation Grant (2012-2013).