LOVE EXISTS IN THOUSAND WAYS
Toni Ferron organises a season on the theme of love, including a group exhibition, a performance, a concert at El Gravat, a film viewing at the Cineclub , performances at the Institut de Teatre and an afternoon of project presentations. ACVic organises this presentation [filtering love through the perceptions of Félix Pérez-Hita (love in the digital age), Jorge Lara (audio performance), Kiko Amat (love and records, and records of love) and Adiccionesporquesí (prepositions and erotic stories.) This activity is on 07/05/2011 from 17:00 pm. The complete programmme is below.
Love exists in a thousand ways. Ovid, Ars Amatoria.
Since the time of the Greeks the issue of love has raised profound reflections, leading to numerous questions due to the inability to rationalise it. This is probably because it is a feeling mixing the more primary primal emotions with primal actions, or, on the contrary, with absolutely rational and premeditated acts. It is without doubt the most universal feeling.
So much so that throughout the history of humanity love has been approached by all the artistic disciplines (art, literature, music, poetry, theatre, photography, film ...), as well as technical and scientific disciplines (medicine, ethics, philosophy, sociology ...), in order to comprehend it.
Curiously, however, during the twentieth century its presence is quite uneven: in literature, music, photography and cinema, it remains a persistent theme because of its universality, while in the visual arts, it disappears under the pressure of conceptual and formal standards. These questions, in addition to the freedom that love has to offer as a subject, and the resulting variety of artistic possibilities, lead us to attempt to explain, through these talks with various cultural figures, how this emotion forms part of their creative process, the place it occupies, the form it takes, etc.
And, of course, these activities will serve to assert love as an integral emotion to the human condition. An emotion undervalued in contemporary visual arts. Toni Ferron
Referències dels participants
ADICCIONESPORQUESÍ. Collective nonprofit self-publishing, rediscovering a taste for the use of the postal service as a means of dissemination. Editing small works, in standard paper formats, direct to the mailboxes of a group of lucky addicts. http://www.adiccionesporquesi.net
Kiko Amat. Accidental writer, cultural journalist with no career, militant anglophile and passionate fan of pop. He is the author of the novels El día que me vaya no se lo diré a nadie (2003), Cosas que hacen BUM (2007) y Rompepistas (2009), all published by Anagrama in the collection Contraseñas . Rompepistas won the Unión Fonográfica Independiente award for the Best literary work of 2009 and was also declared Best novel in 2010 at the Premios Mandarache 2010 in Cartagena. http://www.kikoamat.com
Jordi Lara. Graduated in Catalan literature and played the parish organ for many years. He likes the silence of the stones and the noise of the bars at night. He has worked as a musician and composer, has written fiction and essays, and has directed live television shows. His book "Una màquina d'espavilar ocells de nit" has been considered one of the most important books in Catalan in recent years. He wrote and directed the film "Ventre blanc" for Bubulina Films (with Jordi Crusats and Sergi Lladó), starring the Capgrossos de Vic , soon to be released.
Fèlix Pérez-Hita. Director, screenwriter and editor of videos and documentaries. Currently directs, jointly with Andres Hispano, episodes of Soy cámara (CCCB programme for TVE2). He is a founding member of Horitzo tv, as well as of Tvlata, an experimental educational tv project. He has coordinated the creation of the internet television channel ZEROTV for the exhibition Esteu a punt per a la televisió?" "Are you ready for TV?" MACBA (2010-2011). He contributes to the culture supplements of La Vanguardia, among other publications. http://felixph.blogspot.com
Toni Ferron. Studied painting and graphic design at the Escola d'Arts i Oficis de Vic. He has participated in several group and solo exhibitions . In 2006 he won a scholarship Beca Ciutat de Vic a la Creació Artística and in 2008 presented the results at the Centre d'Arts ACVIC. Since then he has developed his work around the re-use of images, the viewer's relationship with the media, and the production and realisation of conceptual ideas of low intensity. http://www.toniferron.com
Programme
03.05.2011
CINECLUB VIC (Carrer Nou, 19):
22.00 h. Screening of : ¡Olvídate de mí! Michel Gondry. 2004.
Before the film, El GRAVAT will serve, at the cinema hall, an apéritif with lots of love ...
www.cineclubvic.com
06.05.2011
GRAVAT (Carrer Sant Miquel dels Sants, 19):
19.30 h. Group show opening
with: IÑAKI ÁLVAREZ - RUBÉN ÁLVAREZ - EVA ARMISEN - CARLES ARUMÍ - RUDI BAGARIA - ANDREU BALIUS - ALEXIS BARROSO - ISSA BASSET - PILARIN BAYÉS - BISGRÀFIC - FERRAN BLANCAFORT - ALBERT CANO - MARÇAL CASSANY - ROGER CASSANY - TONI CASSASSAS - XEVI CASTEJÓN - JAN CODINA - LLUÍS COLOMER - TONI COROMINA - JORDI DAVÍ - MARIÀ DINARÈS - SANDRA FOTO - JOAN FURRIOLS - TONI GARCIA - SAMA GENÍS - VICENÇ GIMÉNEZ - NATÀLIA GONZÁLEZ - TON GRANERO - MIA GUITERES - TXELO GUTIÉRREZ - MIKEL JASO - MATÍAS KOREA - JORDI LAFON - QUIM MARÍN - MIU MIRAMBELL- JUAN CARLOS MORENO - NGFX - CLARA NUBIOLA - LAURA PADRISA + IRENE MATARRODONA - RAMON PARRAMON - JOAN PETIT - JOB RAMOS - OSCAR RAMOS - JUDIT REIG - PEP RICART - MONTSITA RIEROLA - ORIOL RUFÍ - LAIA SOLÉ - VÍCTOR SUNYOL - PEP TIÓ -MIQUEL TUNEU - CARLES VERGÉS - LLUÍS VERGÉS - ARNAU VERNIS - PEP VERNIS - MIQUEL VILA - YAMILA - BARBARA YLLA.
20.30 h. Graffitti painting by NGFX collective
INSTITUT DEL TEATRE Hall (Carrer Sant Miquel dels Sants, 20):
21.00 h. Performances by Oriol Rufí and Jordi Lara.
In front of GRAVAT (Carrer Sant Miquel dels Sants, 19):
22.00 h. Performance by GRAVAT team.
07.05.2011
Project presentation and debate at ACVIC CENTRE D’ARTS CONTEMPORÀNIES (Carrer Sant Francesc, 1):
17.00 h. Félix Pérez-Hita. Notes about love in the digital era. Essay on the visual representaton of animal love at Youtube©, in two parts:
"mass-love" and "love and animals". Sigmund Freud and Valle Inclán in streaming.
18.00 h. Jordi Lara. Jordi Lara sponsors four ousiders visions of love lived at first person, by Juan Pérez Cobo, Joan Carles Ribas, Isabel Gorina i Lluís Ubalde.
Pause
19.00 h. Kiko Amat. "L.O.V.E.: Amor i discos, i discos d'amor". The author's passion for, and relationship with, music and records. A personal “canon”, a way to live and undestand life.
20.00 h. Adiccionesporquesí. Presentation of the publication Preposiciones Indecentes which gathers in a volume 25 prepositions , as a starting points for 25 erotic narrations written and illustrated by authors of different styles and backgrounds.
GRAVAT (Carrer Sant Miquel dels Sants, 19):
23’20 h. Closing party: Kiko Amat dj + Pablo Giménez
Note: During the weekend LA CREPERIA (Plaça Sant Felip, 9. Vic) will serve a menu full of love.
