Joey Ramone

LOOP Barcelona
21- 23.11.2023

 

Fito Conesa


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joey ramone loop barcelona

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fito conesa

fito conesa

fito conesa

Fito Conesa, El Reparo, 2021, 5 min, Video HD


 

Mining and the abuse to which the land was subjected have turned La Unión (Cartagena) into a perennial fallow area. Wind energy invades the landscape trying in vain to balance the poison injected into the rock.

There are multiple layers of objections in this work, on the one hand the title makes direct reference to a typical drink consumed by the miners of the Sierra Minera, before starting or after finishing their hard day's work. A mixture of brandy and sweet wine that soothed the cold mornings.

Lola tries to appease in the situation of imbalance created between the mining work and the care of the land itself. There are many ways to embody the earthquakes experienced and to diminish their vibration until they are transformed into a musical wave. There are many coincidences that can split you in two because they are arbitrary and unexpected.

The earth yielded the landscape to the memory.


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JOEY RAMONE / HOUSE OF CHAPPAZ (ROTTERDAM / VALENCIA / BARCELONA)

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Fito Conesa studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, the city where he lives and works. With a multifaceted work that encompasses installation, video and sound exploration, some of his works are conceived as an exhibition of the artist himself and his geographical context of origin; others incorporate different elements of cultural history and the contemporary world; and others dissect the everyday.

Since 2008, he has exhibited in spaces such as the Aparador del Museu Abelló in Mollet del Vallès (2008), CaixaForum in Tarragona (2009), Centro Cultural Español in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2014), La Naval in Cartagena (2015) and Espai 13 at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (2018). His work can be found in collections such as the Fundació Banc Sabadell, the University of Granada, the City Council of Valls and MACBA in Barcelona.

 

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