Ángeles Baños Gallery at ArcoMadrid 26

n today’s society, the concept of “sustainable development” is used indiscriminately and superficially, applied to almost everything without any real strategy behind it. It has become a buzzword that appeals to immediacy, generating a fleeting concern that often dilutes memory and tradition, and even calls into question the coherence of the term itself.

In this context, the project presented at ARCOmadrid brings together Abel Jaramillo, Adelardo Gil, and Pedro Barateiro to reflect on these tensions. Their works explore the relationship between nature, knowledge, and society from different perspectives.

Jaramillo investigates fire surveillance in León through an audiovisual essay centered on the figure of the “listener”; Gil-Fournier proposes an alternative view of computation based on the observation of nature; and Barateiro, through sculptures and drawings, addresses contemporary disorientation and the relationship between human beings and their environment.

 

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_Ángeles Baños at ARCOLisboa 25

The works presented at our stand are an extension of the urban research project initiated by photographer Ricardo Cases in 2018 in the city of Valencia, which was compiled in 2023 under the title El ficus del Parterre. Now, under the name Los tamarindos de La Concha, that series of brief photographic essays is joined by new work produced in Donostia, as a result of an artist residency supported by the Kutxa Foundation.

Without a predetermined program, the photographer engages in a daily exercise that pushes compositional conventions to the limit, relying on spontaneously appearing elements such as balloons, bicycle seats, or bus shelters. In these series, Ricardo Cases emphasizes the duration of the photographic gesture—he highlights it and dwells in each scene, often circling around it until it is exhausted, until he has explored all the possibilities offered by a single event. This grammar of movement, akin to an athletic exercise, records the unexpected: the irregularities of the terrain, the collisions, the shifts in rhythm, and creates a mosaic of small details that build into a whole.

The city acts as a stimulus, revealing itself as fertile ground for exploring the limits of the image and playing with a sense of estrangement, though without the intention of offering a passive or sterile vision. His aim is also to address cultural and social issues, proposing symbols that explore the character and identity of those who inhabit the landscape.

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_Angeles Baños Gallery at ArcoMadrid25

“Stratified Memory” is the title of the project presented by the Ángeles Baños Gallery at ArcoMadrid25. The selected artists, Abel Jaramillo, Celia González, and Susanne S.D. Themlitz, question our social and cultural context with their work, adopting elements of our immediate natural environment as tools. Through a geobiological perspective, we are invited to imagine futures from sediment, to rethink history in a stratified manner, and ultimately to relativize the present. Using memory as an inherited tradition, but also as a strategic means to fabricate the future.

In each of the works, there is a connection to specific places close to the artist, proposing parallels with society by looking back at small events, at what happens in silence, and at the microhistories that reflect back to us, placing us in a different scale.

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_Ángeles Baños Gallery at Arcolisboa24

The set of projects presented at our stand for Arco Lisboa 2024 brings together a series of works by Yaima Carrazana, Juan Carlos Bracho and Emilio Gañan in which colour and geometry are the protagonists.

Being these elements or these formal strategies common, the three projects use these forms and these colours to raise a series of questions and problems that go from the autobiographical to the social in the case of Yaizma, drifts on the drawing as a cartographic tool in the projects of Bracho and Emilio Gañán’s warm and arnomic minimalism

Apparently cold, distant and methodical, these works are, however, paradoxically sensual and evocative, and are charged with a subtle beauty and layers of stories and personal and collective experiences.

 

With the support

_Ángeles Baños Gallery at ARCOmadrid 2024

Reintempering Uncertainty_Celia González_Yaima Carrazana_Laura González Cabrera

In the times in which we live, a continuous spirit of uncertainty has settled among us that casts doubt on the epistemological foundations of our society, highlighting our own fragility and that of the system to which we belong. The reality is that our reflections and questions have evolved little since antiquity, investigating and interpreting the unknown is part of humanity, just as it is also inherent to the process of artistic creation. In this sense, the work of art is a vehicle for reflection, an artefact that helps to discover facets of our condition, exercising a therapeutic function as a balm to remedy arrogance, and uncover the relativity of our surroundings.

with the support

_Angeles Baños Gallery at SWAB 2023

Everything is ready.

Beyond the celebration, there is nothing to understand.

It has to do with a simple, imperfect feeling.

The string that kept the pearls together has disappeared, and despite the smoke,
nothing was what it seemed.

-Ángeles Baños Gallery at Arco Madrid 2023

Traditionally, painting has been used as a common technique to recreate a fictitious and idealised landscape, in which different natural elements were incorporated to seek the desired composition according to the criteria of each period. This project is presented with such an approach, and is made up of four artists who use painting as one of their working tools and landscape as a vehicle for communication. In the works presented, they reflect on the artificiality of the landscape and how it reflects the priorities of the society of the time, introducing messages referring to the relationship between nature and the action of man, redefining in many cases an increasingly domesticated territory.

 

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Ángeles Baños Gallery at Arco Lisboa 2023

What experiences do you need to accumulate to be in the world? What knowledge is necessary? Like anywhere else, in our Iberian environment, a large part of the society that encompasses us forces us to accept as part of our culture an infinite number of superfluous aspects that reduce and simplify us as people. In this exhibition project, the participating artists combine different everyday elements of our environment, frequently resorting to clichés, to place us in front of them, as a journey through different scenarios where we can recognise and recognise ourselves.

 

 

 

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