Ion Macareno
24 Mar - 03 May 2015
ION MACARENO
Nickel
24 March - 3 May 2015
Sala Rekalde presents the exhibition Nickel by Ion Macareno included in the barriek 2015 programme, whose purpose is to display work by artists who have been awarded Grants for Artistic Creation by the Regional Council of Bizkaia.
Macareno explores the idea of popular expression, understood as actions understood as actions whose scenario is the street, the urban social landscape, gestures whose intention is to adapt to it and vice versa, adjusting the urban configuration to the individual’s need.
Ion Macareno’s recent work revolves around an exercise of experimentation with codes typical of certain urban behaviours where intuition and creativity move through a regulatory network that follows its own raison d'être. For him, experimentation is a fundamental characteristic when undertaking his projects, framed within the continuous learning context he is involved in. At the same time, he is driven by an interest in the architectural elements that are identified with such public manifestations and that contextualize their activity.
In this project, NICKEL, Ion Macareno builds into his practice references from different cultural expressions whose main scenario is the urban environment, its architecture and the use that is made of it; how it is inhabited, the movements that occur in it and the way human beings behave in its context. In so doing, and as is customary in his latest works, the artist “takes the urban context as the point of departure for reflections on moments where, specifically, intuition and the unexpected become powerful against the established order as transformative actors.
Macareno’s emphasis falls on actions whose field of action is the street, the gestures and materials that try to adapt to it, and vice versa. He takes certain forms, dynamics, materials and tools that come from that world and, after subjecting them to the praxis of the workshop, the exhibition space becomes a new scenario in transformation which, although it is at a remove from the customary direct references to the urban, carries us with ease to such settings.” 1
1.- CANELA, Juan: Text for Ion Macareno’s exhibition catalogue Peso at the Galería José de la Fuente, Santander, 2014, p. 4.
THE ARTIST www.ionmacareno.com
Ion Macareno (Bilbao, 1980) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and, since 2010, has been engaged in activity in the research field in the Department of Sculpture at the same university. In 2009 he showed the project Deseo con D de duda at the Centro Cultural Montehermoso in Vitoria. In 2011 he was awarded an artistic residency at the Bilbaoarte Foundation and received a grant from the Regional Council of Bizkaia for the project Casper the friendly ghost.
He exhibited in 2011 and 2012 at the Sala Rekalde as part of the Ertibil Bizkaia exhibition. He participated in the first edition of the initiative Jugada a tres bandas in Madrid with the project Todo cuanto hicimos fue insuficiente. In 2013 he took part in collective shows including Copi-copi in Galeria 111 in Oporto and El desliz in the DAFO Projectes space, in Lleida. In 2015 he was involved in Orbital projects in the Hotel Elephant Space, London.
Jointly with the Galería José de la Fuente he showed his work at the SWAB Fair in Barcelona 2012 and at the ARCO 2013 Fair. He recently showed his project entitled Peso, in the same gallery in Santander.
Nickel
24 March - 3 May 2015
Sala Rekalde presents the exhibition Nickel by Ion Macareno included in the barriek 2015 programme, whose purpose is to display work by artists who have been awarded Grants for Artistic Creation by the Regional Council of Bizkaia.
Macareno explores the idea of popular expression, understood as actions understood as actions whose scenario is the street, the urban social landscape, gestures whose intention is to adapt to it and vice versa, adjusting the urban configuration to the individual’s need.
Ion Macareno’s recent work revolves around an exercise of experimentation with codes typical of certain urban behaviours where intuition and creativity move through a regulatory network that follows its own raison d'être. For him, experimentation is a fundamental characteristic when undertaking his projects, framed within the continuous learning context he is involved in. At the same time, he is driven by an interest in the architectural elements that are identified with such public manifestations and that contextualize their activity.
In this project, NICKEL, Ion Macareno builds into his practice references from different cultural expressions whose main scenario is the urban environment, its architecture and the use that is made of it; how it is inhabited, the movements that occur in it and the way human beings behave in its context. In so doing, and as is customary in his latest works, the artist “takes the urban context as the point of departure for reflections on moments where, specifically, intuition and the unexpected become powerful against the established order as transformative actors.
Macareno’s emphasis falls on actions whose field of action is the street, the gestures and materials that try to adapt to it, and vice versa. He takes certain forms, dynamics, materials and tools that come from that world and, after subjecting them to the praxis of the workshop, the exhibition space becomes a new scenario in transformation which, although it is at a remove from the customary direct references to the urban, carries us with ease to such settings.” 1
1.- CANELA, Juan: Text for Ion Macareno’s exhibition catalogue Peso at the Galería José de la Fuente, Santander, 2014, p. 4.
THE ARTIST www.ionmacareno.com
Ion Macareno (Bilbao, 1980) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and, since 2010, has been engaged in activity in the research field in the Department of Sculpture at the same university. In 2009 he showed the project Deseo con D de duda at the Centro Cultural Montehermoso in Vitoria. In 2011 he was awarded an artistic residency at the Bilbaoarte Foundation and received a grant from the Regional Council of Bizkaia for the project Casper the friendly ghost.
He exhibited in 2011 and 2012 at the Sala Rekalde as part of the Ertibil Bizkaia exhibition. He participated in the first edition of the initiative Jugada a tres bandas in Madrid with the project Todo cuanto hicimos fue insuficiente. In 2013 he took part in collective shows including Copi-copi in Galeria 111 in Oporto and El desliz in the DAFO Projectes space, in Lleida. In 2015 he was involved in Orbital projects in the Hotel Elephant Space, London.
Jointly with the Galería José de la Fuente he showed his work at the SWAB Fair in Barcelona 2012 and at the ARCO 2013 Fair. He recently showed his project entitled Peso, in the same gallery in Santander.