Intercambio con la Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria)
TOOL
When an object becomes useless, it resists from its ordinary structure of meanings and emerges into something different that no longer have a place in the system of objects. “Tool” is a project to explore the potentialities of objects in their individualities and in their relationships. From a poetic perspective, the material world is understood as a field of possibilities, a place of wonder and mystery opposed to mere reality.
The exhibition stresses the idea of the incapability of understanding, assimilating and being in relationship to the thing itself. The works are subject to erosion, transformation or deterioration, not only in physical but also in psychological terms. This aesthetic exercise seeks alternative ways to generate discursive meaning, through different types of relations such as twining, assembling and gathering. The objects arranged in the exhibition operate following their own physical, temporal and psychological dynamics. They are objects understood as vital bodies constantly affected by external stimuli.
Poetry is what is left over after signification, what is left over after use. The muted beauty of these objects, -uncoupled from their place in the order of things,- resides in the fact that their meaning have been submerged again. As it is only when things break, become obsolete or dysfunctional, that another dimension of those objects comes into view.
Javier Arbizu. Artista, comisario y gestor cultural. Vive y trabaja en Bilbao. Licenciado en Bellas Artes por la Universidad de Salamanca. Master en Bellas Artes (MFA) por el San Francisco Art Institute de San Francisco, California.
Ha recibido la beca Fulbright del Ministerio de Cultura para la realización de estudios artísticos en EEUU, la Beca de Gestión Cultural MAEC-AECID, la Beca de Ampliación de Estudios Artísticos y la Ayuda para proyectos de Artes Plásticas del Gobierno de Navarra.
Ha sido galardonado con el primer premio Guasch Coranty, Inéditos de la Casa Encendida, Anne Bremer Memorial Price del San Francisco Art Institute, Murphy and Cadogan Award de la San Francisco Art Foundation, Segundo Vicente de la Fundación Vicente García Corselas de la Universidad de Salamanca, Mario Antolín de los Premios de Pintura BMW y Encuentros del Gobierno de Navarra.
Ha mostrado su trabajo en Scope Miami Beach, Arte Santander, el Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Huarte, Da2 Salamanca, las galerías Lisi Hämmerle en Bregenz, Ángeles Baños en Badajoz, Michel Mejuto en Bilbao, Diego Rivera y SOMArts en San Francisco. Ha comisariado exposiciones en el Museo Nacional de Sudan y La Casa Encendida en Madrid.