Juan Falcon
1 September 2021 – 30 October 2021
Born in Oviedo in 1985
Juan Falcón García (Oviedo, 1985) began his artistic training at the Oviedo School of Art where he graduated as a Higher Technician in Engraving and Printing Techniques (2008). Work and experimentation have been, since then, a constant in his path towards a defined and personal language and expressiveness. Among his most recent training experiences, it is worth mentioning his time at the Viña Lithography workshops and the grant for artistic production awarded by the Municipal Foundation of Culture, Education and Popular University of the City of Gijón (2020).
The progress and contributions of this young artist have been recognized at the state level and in the regional circuit, through the XIV Certamen Fundación Unicaja de Artes Plásticas (2021), or through awards such as the one that the Valey, Cultural Center of Castrillón, granted him within the framework of production of exhibition projects (2017). Juan’s participation in various fairs and exhibitions, individual and collective, give a clear perspective of his interest in material, formal, conceptual and symbolic research as a whole in interaction. World-Image: Appropriations, Assemblages, Recombinations is the culmination of these advances.
Project in residence
Mundo – Imagen: Apropiaciones, ensamblajes, recombinaciones
Image-World: Appropriations, assemblages, recombinations.
For the more we are asked to remember as a consequence of the information explosion and the commodification of memory, the more we are in danger of forgetting and the greater the need to forget. What is at stake is the distinction between usable pasts and disposable data […].
Huyssen
World-Image, reflects on the complex relationship between the nature of images and the evolution of their meanings at the core of today’s culture. Flooded by them, overflowed by them, they pass through our ever-open eyes. Endlessly. Jonathan Crary, in 24/7, analyzes the continuous order of a global socio-economic structure where dual rhythmic oscillations – based on cycles of activity and pause, of action and rest – have tended to be replaced by a continuous flow of activity.
Mundo- Imagen is a videographic work that, among other things, confronts us with key elements to understand the itineraries of visual culture in the era of the Internet and Social Networks from a balanced conceptual and technical variety that invites us to look for answers where perhaps there are only questions.
Project selected in the II Call for artistic residencies 2021
