The artistic collective made up by Esther Mañas and Arash Moori wins the fourth grant DKV Seguros-Álvarez Margaride
The work will be carried out during a production residency at LABoral and will be exhibited starting June 17 at the Art Centre
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(Cu), by the artists Esther Mañas and Arash Moori, has been selected as the winner project of the Production Grant DKV Seguros –Álvarez Margaride in its fourth edition, called jointly by this insurance company and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial de Gijón. The artists will develop their project during a two-month artistic residency at Plataforma 0. Centro de Producción de LABoral, as a previous step to its presentation to the public from June 17 to September 18 this year.
The project proposes the use of copper as the leitmotiv by researching it and following its traces in the Asturian history and landscape, as well as artistic material in electronic, electric and sculptural applications. The artistic research will focus in the recycling and electric conductivity potential of this material and its symbolic link to the Asturian areas where it has been extracted and produced along history.
Therefore, these artists plan to create several works based on the combination of sculpting techniques, electronics and the leveraging of electromagnetic phenomena. The production and research work during the residency will be also depicted in the final show of the project.
Esther Mañas and Arash Moori carry out an artistic collaboration since the year 2005 with sound spatial works that research acoustics and the characteristics of the place resulting from the interaction of the individual practices of the two of them.
They have presented their work at Interstate (2015) at Art Center/South Florida in collaboration with A/CE, Acción Cultural Española; Invoking a Demon Landscape, Sonido Implícito (2010) at Fundación Joan Miró, Espai 13, Barcelona; Estación Experimental (2011) at CA2M, Madrid and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón; Stand Resovision de Resonance FM (2010) at Frieze Art Fair, Londres; September at the Hotel Ozone (2011) K.A.I.R, Košice Artist in Residency, Eslovaquia; Alles für das Wohl des Volkes (2009) Kuntsverein Leipzig, Leipzig; Composition for Five Rooms (2007) HAP, Hammarby Artport in collaboration with IASPIS, Stockholm.
The jury that selected this project out of 56 candidates was made up by Iñaki Martínez Antelo, Director of MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo and Almudena Hernández de la Torre, Head of Exhibitions at the Autonomous Region of Madrid, as external juries: ; Juan Bautista Peiró, Professor at the School of Fine Arts San Carlos de Valencia; Alicia Ventura, Managing Director at Arte Ventura and adviser and curator of Proyecto Arte DKV Seguros; and Xana Khale, Teacher at the Sculpture Faculty of the School of Fine Arts of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as members designated by DKV Seguros; and Patricia Villanueva, Head of Exhibitions, as member designed by Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial de Gijón. Lucía García, Executive Director of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial acted as secretary.
The Production Grant DKV Seguros – Álvarez Margaride is a result of a five-year partnership agreement between LABoral and DKV Seguros. Both entities undertake to organise, produce and showcase the work selected. This call pays homage to the entrepreneur José Luis Álvarez Margaride, recognising his business commitment with Asturias and his support to art, culture and scientific research.
According to its bases and conditions, the call is aimed at selecting a work that uses new technologies, in its broader sense, created by a Spanish artist, or legal resident in Spain, born not before 1975. It is funded with 10.000€ gross -2.000€ as fees and a production budget of 8.000€-, in addition to free access to all the technical and human resources of LABoral.
DKV Seguros
The insurance company specialising in health DKV Seguros has created ARTERIA DKV, a programme aimed at supporting the various actions that foster artistic creation, always in relation with health and the improvement of people’s quality of life. This way, in line with its artistic commitment, DKV intends to foster innovation and creativity in general among the health and insurance industry, in addition to fostering as a value for society.
Under the single brand Munich Health, Munich Re has gathered its global knowledge about in health in insurance and re-insurance. In Spain, Grupo DKV is deployed across the whole country, with a wide range of branch offices and consultation rooms with almost 2.000 employees, providing service to around 2 million customers.
The goal is to offer their customers a quality-based management, with an attitude of permanent innovation in products and services and focusing on health and personal insurance policies.
