A sample of the winning projects in the XXIX edition of this call promoted by the Community of Madrid.
The Plastic Arts Circuits exhibition is the result of the XXIX edition of the call that the Community of Madrid has held since 1988 whose objectives are to encourage creation by artists under 35 years of age and to be a platform that connects young artists with the artistic and professional circuit that is currently taking place in the Community of Madrid.
In this edition, a jury made up of art professionals selected ten projects by the artists: Víctor Aguado Machuca, Pablo Durango, Alberto Feijóo, Ignacio García Sánchez, Esther Gatón, Inma Herrera, Miguel Marina, Carlos Monleón, Elisa Pardo Puch and Clara Sánchez Sala.
In order to establish a system of assembly between the production and research of the ten selected artists, in each edition, the artists have been accompanied by a curator who carries out the exercise of observation and analysis of this artistic firmament. Nowadays it is common for the work of the curator to have acquired a certain prominence and for exhibitions to have a fundamental need to have a thesis that grants validity and consistency to an exhibition. Given the characteristics of the Circuits program, the curator of this edition Bernardo Sopelana questions this method as a means to reinforce the selection of the ten artists that make up the 2018 edition.
Therefore, this edition of Circuits attempts to decipher not only what surrounds the selected works, but also the processes by which they were conceived. Each of the participants is equivalent to a star in the constellation to know that significantly and collectively, they are all involved in the development of the youngest scene in Madrid.
A year has passed since this exhibition opened in Madrid and the reflection and analysis is still more relevant for this review and reinterpretation of the creations, ideas and scenarios proposed by the 10 selected artists. The objective of the Constellations exhibition is to analyze the epistemic dimension of creativity in the contemporary artistic process, relating artist, work and space. For the Young Art Room of the Community of Madrid, the artists developed the production of their works for a specific space. It is now that, having a place with different characteristics, we have the best opportunity to contemplate and analyze how the processes
They determine an endless number of results, foreseen by not modifying just one of the elements of the process.
