From October 18, Street Gallery and F-Orma Network presents the third joint exhibition in Georgia, a project by Guillermo Grande Aguado Aka Gigi Ei called "MODERN POOR" aimed to analyze new terms and advice on economic precariousness, in a satirical light, that part of the population suffers and that are broadcast in the Spanish communications media.
The works will be exhibited in the exhibition spaces of Street Gallery - Fabrika’s yard in Tbilisi and in the streets of Batumi.
MODERN POOR
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Over the past few years, it has been observed how the communications media have normalized and emphasized “cool” precarious situations and of poverty that many Spanish workers and citizens are living through. These problems affect both workers and students alike, from being unable to rent a decent home to having to seek food in containers.
This series of drawings are the result of an analysis of the different news items from the Spanish press on the new poor and how their way of life has been converted into the latest tendency. Each drawing is an effort to represent these situations of poverty taken to an extreme in an absurd manner.
Guillermo Grande Aguado - “In my artistic practice, I approach the absurd associated with everyday rules, understood as a humor that springs from a simple reaction to the unknown or what is not easily understood. In an interdisciplinary sense, my works construct a conceptual framework of common action on the basis of certain relations and characteristics proper to artistic disciplines (photography, video, performance, drawing and painting). My artistic practice arises from this convergence with the objective of questioning both the prefixed structures, which have been imposed through artistic disciplines, as well as the social codes that determine the behavior and the relation with our surroundings.
The conceptual process that I follow is the observation of everyday life. I select whatever awakens my interest to introduce an alteration that leads me to move beyond its conventional logic. With this intro. As a working methodology, I strive to create a discourse based on a system of interlaced relations, in which the influence of my subjective vision is decisive, with the intention of transcending an original meaning, giving it a new trajectory, or evidencing what is real in the fact under analysis.
Discovering the unexpected in everyday life more than a task of unearthing is a position towards life from some modes of action; and using the real space as a place of legitimate action for my role as an artist through its reflection and its transformation. Assuming this attitude of looking at life to produce art, we will not be talking of solutions, but of behavior to produce works as faithful to their moment in time as to the situation that requires it.