Rodrigo Martín Freire
20 April 2015 – 18 June 2015
Martín Freire is a graduate in Fine Arts by Universidad de Seville (1999) and he is currently completing a PhD programme at the Faculty of Sculpture and History of Plastic Arts of this same University. He has enjoyed a production grant at Fundación BilbaoArte.
Some of his individual exhibitions between 2004 and 2015 are El triunfo del tiempo y del desengaño, Invasores del espacio and Parque temático, at the gallery Alarcón Criado in Seville; Parachute, at gallery Paz y Comedias, Valencia. Some of his individual site specific projects are Windows cut/ for The Stile Outlet. in Seville; and Espacio disponible, at ArteLisboa´09.
He has taken part in collective exhibitions such as Inicial/08, organised by Junta de Andalucía; Colección DKV Artistas, in Seville and Madrid; La imagen y el animal, Diputación de Granada; and he has been selected for the ABC award. His work has been showcased in fairs such as ARCO´12´13´14´15; Preview Berlin; Art Fair´10; Next´10 Chicago, in the U.S.A.; Swab, in Barcelona; and in several editions of Arte Santander.
Project in residence
Behind the Scene
Rodrigo Martín Freire will work in ‘Behind the Scene’, the winner project of the Production Grant DKV Seguros-Álvarez Margaride in its third edition
Rodrigo Martín Freire will develop during his residency at LABoral Behind the Scene, the winning project of the DKV Seguros – Álvarez Margaride Production Grant, a call launched jointly by the insurance company and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial de Gijón. The artist will work at his project during an two-month art residency at Plataforma 0. Centro de Producción de LABoral, as a previous step to its presentation to the public from June 18 to August 30 of this year.
Behind the Scene is an installation where the artist will present simulations of advertising banners that, using halogen lights, will display messages and images made with bodily letters, whose interpretation will be affected by atmospheric agents, activated by means of a free hardware called Arduino. The possibility that these messages are mixed randomly, concealed, or match each other, will show the lack of connection between the original idea of the sender with the final message understood by the receiver.
According to Martín Freire, this work “is aimed at highlighting the unscrupulousness of public powers when it comes to manipulating messages. How they conceal, contradict, change or disguise the information with the purpose of controlling the behaviour of individuals that are increasingly alienated”.
