Terranova devotes its smaller, left hand window display to a different artist every month. In barely one square meter, we will showcase anything from sculpture to ceramics, toys or furniture from local designers, artists and artisans.
Born in taipei, Liang-Jung Chen is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in london. Deeply interested in the tension embedded in everyday scenarios, her works are often informed by politics within behaviours and artefacts. Meanwhile, her background in industrial design allows her to bridge narratives with detail-oriented awareness.
Raúl Hidalgo presents three enlargements of the photographic series he is currently working on. Through portraits of friends and people he has met along the way, the author explores the complex relationship between self-representation and identity.
The blurred images blend into each other. They are reflected in the mirrors and the street glass, becoming a living installation that transforms and changes its appearance depending on how and when one looks at it.
To coincide with the presentation of her book I Made Them Run Away, the artist Martina Zanin showcases three original artworks in our left window.
I Made Them Run Away is a multi-layered story weaving together family images and photographs with texts written by the artist’s mother. It brings together memories from the past and feelings of the present to investigate the dynamics of relationships – the need for attention, the expectations that cause disillusionment, insecurity and judgment.
“The more you live, the more space you need” is a piece made of a structure of cardboard boxes in which coexist a series of objects and images that tell a story about heartbreak and a fragile transition to a new emotional state.
A staircase composed of wax relics that reach an orange, a gun (slingshot), garlic skins, a coral in resin, a glove with burnt matches on the fingers, a candle, an egg, etc. The title of the piece comes from self storage company Bluespace’s slogan.
Todos mis ojos is an exhibition of original paintings by Amara Nasira which comprise her new book Sudokus, published by Terranova.
A few months back, after a visit to her house, a friend of the painter left abandoned a cheap little sudoku booklet. Amara Nasira couldn’t help but complete it in her own particular way.
The book is a facsimile edition that reproduces the original without any interference. The exhibition consists of the torn-out pages nailed to the walls of our gallery. All original paintings are available for purchase.
Raquel Quevedo’s transformed copy of Graffiti, as part of the exhibition of the same name taking place at the gallery.
Graffiti is Antonio Xoubanova’s book published by Ca l’Isidret in 2021. The author and the book designer, David Mozzeta, take the book to a third dimension.
Besides painting the walls of our small gallery with drawings reminiscent of another photobook with the same title (Brassaï’s Graffiti from 1960), a few selves showcase Xoubanova’s book customized and transformed by a group of fellow artists and friends invited by the author and Terranova. The resulting books were on display and available for sale, together with other copies of Graffiti customized by Antonio Xoubanova and David Mozzetta live before the audience in the opening of the exhibition.
The full list of participating artists included Albert Cano, Oriol Enguany, Erik Von Frankenberg, Alejan dro Marote, Piereeno, Raquel Quevedo, José Quintanar, Giovanni Spera, Strike, Kentaro Terajima, Miguel Ángel Tornero e Irkus (m) Zeberio.
Julia Crehueras works in the obscure field of automats and mobile sculpture, building small installations who often feature the dismembered feminine body. For our left window display, she created a couple of shoe-wearing-feet who are in a constant circular move, not knowing if the figure is elevating and taking flight towards the sky, or hanging a few inches from the ground.
For the first time we gave both inside (gallery) and outside (shop window) spaces to the same artist, Olivia Albanell, to work on two parallel installations that were constantly evolving during the month long exhibition, that ended up being more of an artist residency than a regular show.
Olivia splashed her work around in a free form logic that comes from her own personal instinct, changing it, adding and taking away elements that included everything from drawings and personal notebooks to tiny sculptures, organic pieces like wood and sea shells hanging from strings and found objects that she combines until it all makes sense.
For over a month, which included long visits, private tours and plain hanging around, she invaded parts of our bookshop transforming them into a physical output of her mind, her imagination and her soul.
When we invited Swedish artist Klas Ernflo to feature his work on our shop window he decided to simply display his latest sculpture, a glazed stoneware and wood piece of two men riding the same horse. The cowboy hats can be removed to turn it into a candle holder, which we couldn’t show and light up for security reasons.
A few words from the artist:
“The sculpture Albert & Herbert is about togetherness. The title is part the name of a made up friend and part my own middle name. Albert & Herbert is also a Swedish TV show that I used to see as a kid. A comedy about a scrap dealer and his son learning to live together.”
The artist Alicia Marsans has been crafting small wooden figures as a secondary, intimate practice when she wants to step into a different mindset and take a breath from painting. She calls them Odradeks, as an homage to the literary phantasy creatures of Franz Kafka. We had the pleasure to display many of them in our window, and kept renovating them every time one of them got sold.
A few words from the artist:
“This is a series of beings that have been keeping me company for many years now, and that I’ve been making out of leftovers of wood and paint. I call them Odradeks, as the creature in Kafka’s “Worries of a family Man”. Later on this same creature would be restored by Vila-Matas in his “Historia Abreviada de la Literatura Portátil”, as some sort of Golem who’s always by the artist, the materialization of his double. These “strange characters (…) are like shadows: (unborn) beings, who’s thoughts and behavior are made off subconscious scraps” are analog to my little sculptures, which I’ve been doing for the sake of it for years, without even knowing the reason why, as if it was them who were commanding me their own existence.”