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‘A Question of Perception,’ Gary Hill’s retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany, opens to the public on November 30, 2024. Home to Germany’s largest collection of Hill's works, the museum will feature 15 key installations representing the central themes of the artist’s career, which spans from the early 1970s to today. Gary Hill (b. 1951, Santa Monica) has worked with a broad range of media – including sculpture, sound, video, installation and performance – since the early 1970’s. His longtime work with intermedia continues to explore an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity. – Image credits: 1 - Bathing, 1977, Video, color, sound, 4:30 min. Ed.3/30+5AP. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Donation of the artist © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024. 2 - Sums & Differences, 1978. Video, black and white, sound, 8:24 min. Ed.3/30+5AP. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Donation of the artist © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024. 3 - Bemerkungen über die Farben [Remarks on Color], 1994. Video, color, sound, 42 min. Ed. 2/5. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Donation Christian Gerhartl © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024.

La semana pasada activamos en Baró Galeria la obra Red de elásticos (1974) de Lygia Clark con los estudiantes de ADEMA Escuela Universitaria. Construimos pequeñas redes para unirlas luego en una gran red caótica que pudiera contenernos. Alguien propuso salir a caminar así, unidas por las bandas elásticas, así que ocupamos la calle como un cuerpo colectivo. A veces tengo la sensación de que aprendo más en estas clases que mis estudiantes. 🧡 ~~~ Last week at Baró Galeria, we activated Elastic Net (1974) by Lygia Clark with students from ADEMA Escuela Universitaria. We built small networks to later join them into a large, chaotic net that could hold us. Someone suggested we go for a walk, connected by the elastic bands, so we took to the streets as a collective body. Sometimes I feel like I learn more in these classes than my students do. 🧡 #contemporaryart #lygiaclark #artgallery #exhibition #participation

[Opening tomorrow] Erwin Olaf: In Motion, In Stillness Director of studio Erwin Olaf Shirley den Hartog and Baró Galeria are delighted to invite you to the opening of the gallery’s first Erwin Olaf exhibition "In Motion, In Stillness". As a special prelude to the event, Shirley will lead an exclusive guided tour of the exhibition this Saturday, November 23rd. Opening Reception: Saturday, November 23rd, 2024 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Guided Tour: Saturday, November 23rd, 2024 5:15 PM (Sign up for the tour via the link below) https://lnkd.in/dMnmHStv

Wishing a happy birthday to Elias Crespin! Elias Crespin's work embodies a unique combination of artistic intuition and scientific rigor. He seeks to create sculptures that give visible form to the laws of the universe, suggesting a cosmic world governed by mathematical laws. His electrokinetic sculptures, subject to the laws of gravity and equilibrium, move from order to chaos, evoking the beauty and complexity of the universe. His work has been featured in significant exhibitions this year, including 'Une brève histoire de fils' at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine and 'Chronomorphosis', his first solo exhibition in Sweden. Additionally, his monumental Grand HexaNet (2018) was acquired by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and is now part of the permanent collection of the institution. – Images: 1: Elias Crespin, Grand HexaNet, 2018. Photo: Gabe Hopkins. Courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024 2: Elias Crespin, La Danza de las catenarias 2, 2024. Electrokinetic work with catenary elements, 320x260x18cm. Photo: Sergio Daniel Azuaje © Atelier Elias Crespin, 2024 3: Trianguconcéntricos, 2008. View of the installation at the MNBA of Buenos Aires © Photo Verónica Velasco

Last chance to see Violeta Quispe's 'Apus Suyos' (2024) and 'El Matrimonio de la chola' (2022), on view until November 24 at Venice's Arsenale as part of 'Stranieri Ovunque', the International Art Exhibition at the 60th Venice Biennale. "Apus Suyos arose as a result of a personal questioning of the gender roles rooted in Andean communities, a concern that led me to reflect on the representation of nature. Questions arose in me such as: Why are some mountains perceived as females or males? Why is the earth known as "La Pachamama" (mother earth), a feminine term?" – Violeta Quispe – Images: 1- Installation view of Stranieri Ovunque with the two works by Violeta Quispe. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia. Photo by Andrea Avezzù. 2- Apus Suyos, 2024. Mixed polychrome, natural pigment on MDF, 200 × 200 cm. Jorge M. Perez Collection, Miami. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia. Photo by Andrea Avezzù. 3- El matrimonio de la chola, 2022. Mixed polychrome, natural pigment with application of gold leaf on MDF, 150 × 170 cm. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia. Photo by Andrea Avezzù.

Images from last Thursday’s activation of Lygia Clark’s ‘Rede de elásticos’ (1974) at Baró Galeria, led by Esmeralda Gómez Galera with students from ADEMA Escuela Universitaria Fine Arts degree. A seminal work by Lygia Clark, ‘Elastic Net’ exemplifies her exploration of art as a participatory and embodied experience. “The object for me has lost its significance, and if I still use it, it is so that it becomes a mediator for participation. (…) In all that I do, there really is the necessity of the human body, so that I expresses itself or is revealed as in a first (primary) experience. For me it doesn’t matter whether I am avant-garde or placed within new theories. I can only be what I am.” –Lygia Clark, in a letter to Hélio Oiticica

We are pleased to share Rolando Carmona's article 'Lygia Clark: Olvidar el cuerpo', which explores Clark's exhibition currently on view at Baró Galeria, recently published by Artishock Magazine. "With Clark, drawing a line in space becomes a path toward therapy and an opportunity to transcend the traditional body, including that of the artist herself." –Rolando J. Carmona

José María Sicilia presents ‘Demasiado Tarde’, a requiem mass created by the artist, which will be performed at the Santa Creu Church in Palma on November 8, at 7:30 PM. Officiated by the Bishop of Mallorca, Sebastià Taltavull, this ceremony revives the ancient and nearly forgotten Church tradition of inviting artists to collaborate in the creation of sacred rites—a gesture that balances the innovative with the ancestral, challenging conventions and opening new paths for art and spirituality. Inspired by an original text written by Sicilia himself, Demasiado Tarde is a meditation on time, light, life, and death. Sicilia explores the idea that “one does not die,” and that in facing death, it dissolves. His libretto guides us into deep contemplation, weaving together the thoughts of Plotinus, Leibniz, Deleuze, and Edgar Allan Poe in a series of fragments that confront human finitude and the yearning for eternity. The mass becomes an act of introspection, a space where “too late” transforms into presence, and the past takes shape in the here and now. The set design, chants, and ecclesiastical attire have been meticulously crafted by Sicilia, symbolically inviting attendees to experience the ritual in a state of reflection and poetic resonance. Music will be performed by the Studium Chamber Choir and the Escolanía dels Blavets de Lluc, whose sound will accompany the ceremony, evoking the rhythm of the living and the round of those who have already departed.

Last chance to visit Lygia Clark's first exhibition in Mallorca, 'Oublier le corps...', along with 'Lucidus Disorder', featuring the works of 13 seminal Latin American artists. On view in Baró Galeria, Palma, until November 10, 2024. "These are all works that eclipse or tropicalize the grid, creating precarious incisions and organic disruptions that find their order in deconstruction and the systematization of apparent chaos, often using ruins as a starting point to announce reinvention. Like a serpent biting its tail, the popular culture of today reclaims the most disruptive figures of the 60s and 70s, generating a satire of the canon and the aesthetic insulation they themselves had built." –Rolando J. Carmona – Images: Exhibition views 'Lygia Clark: Oublier le corps...' and 'Lucidus Disorder', Curated by Rolando J. Carmona. Photo: Grimalt de Blanch.

[Upcoming] Erwin Olaf: In Motion, In Stillness The first posthumous exhibition dedicated to Erwin Olaf (Hilversum, 1959 – Amsterdam, 2023) at Baró Galeria pays tribute to an artist whose work redefined the way we perceive the body and its relationship with cultural and social codes. It brings together two of his most recent photographic series, Dance in Close-Up (2022) and Shanghai (2017), along with the series he developed throughout much of his prolific career, Still Life (1994–2021). In this way, it intertwines the intimate and the collective, revealing the symbolic layers that characterize his work. “My images are like a play: they are choreographed, planned, every gesture and every expression is intentional.” – Erwin Olaf Erwin Olaf’s work has been the subject of numerous retrospectives in recent years, including 2019’s dual exhibitions at Kunstmuseum The Hague and The Hague Museum of Photography, as well as solo shows at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and at the Shanghai Center of Photography. In 2021, his work was featured at Kunsthalle München in Germany and Suwon Museum of Art in Korea. A major retrospective of the artist is planned for 2025 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The opening of ‘In Motion, In Stillness’ will take place on November 23, from 11h–14h at Baró Galeria, in Palma.