Olmo Cuña
1 February 2024 – 31 July 2024
Olmo Cuña, Vigo, 1983, graduated in Visual Arts at the Facultade de Belas Artes de Pontevedra, with a master’s degree in Artistic Production at the Universitat Politècnica de València and, in 2016, completed the SOMA Educational Program in Mexico City.
His exhibitions include “Vacacional”(2022) at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Xixón, “Lo fingido verdadero” (2021) his specific involvement in Casa de Lope de Vega, Madrid, “Inestimable Azar” (2020) XIV Bienal FEMSA, Mexico, and “Todo sucede como si” (2019) Can Felipa Arts Visuals, Barcelona. His work has been screened at Cineteca Madrid, at (S8) XIV Mostra de Cinema Periférico de A Coruña and at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Olmo Cuña’s activity is based on everyday experiences in different places around him, showing a special interest in observing and questioning how the most general forms of approaching territory operate through the image. His practice, which is placed in the encounter between manual and digital processes, often incorporates activations with which he seeks to propose other conditions of perception with respect to a particular cultural, landscape or urban scenario.
Artist participating in the exhibition Terranautas. Notes for a new world map
Project in residence
Project in residence: Colosal nº 8
The Olmec head of the Ensanche de Vallecas roundabout is a sculpture that was donated to the city of Madrid by the Mexican state of Veracruz and is a replica of one of the colossal heads sculpted by the pre-Columbian Olmec culture.
Olmo Cuña proposes to relate this rotunda to the Italian ‘colossal’ cinema characterised by the recreation of great classical settings. Another dimension of the project is the work of exploration around the languages and techniques of cinema, such as the use of so-called ‘applied colour’.
Taking these ideas as a starting point, the Colosal nº8 project proposes the making of a short film that could be considered a kind of ‘colossal’ film that speculates on the historical relations between Mexico and Spain, on the transfer and decontextualisation of archaeological artefacts and specifically on the Olmec head roundabout.
Project selected in the 1st Call for Artistic Residencies 2024
