Group show “M9”

11 October – 2 December 2019

With the collective exhibition “M9”, SC Gallery inaugurates the 2019-20 season with a presentation of the artworks of Amaya Suberviola, Gabriel Coca, Iñigo Sesma, Mikel del Río and of Sebas Velasco.

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“Painting and Neolithic”

This exhibition is rather secondly, a friendly reunion.

First, it would be a meeting, in which, in each of those, the bizarre wish to prioritise some of the plastic aspects on a painting is being leveraged. They believe that that is where nests the core of the matter, so much so, that terms like creation or even friendship, actually make sense.

This small horde of painters answer to the names of; Gabriel Coca, Mikel del Rio, Amaya Suberviola, Sebas Velasco and Iñigo Sesma. They identify themselves as part of the acronym M9, one of the modules of the Master in painting, at the Faculty of BB.AA of Leioa, where, already four years ago, they engaged in pictorial work through an intense life experience.

There, they learned, amongst other things, that in this painting technique, the act of painting for something or for nothing don’t decidedly differ. Hence their wondering if this “in order for” is that important , when it comes  down to keeping on painting.

For the M9, questioning the theme itself is important. However, they ultimately paint buildings, cars, landscapes, plastic bags, characters, high tech still-life or chromatically exacerbated orthogonal thresholds, while always being able to make the necessary effort not to convert the painting into a chromium. And if it is indeed a chromium, it would have to be only for the sake of structural work, which would make the theme of the painting exactly that; a chromium.

Innovative authors are said not to give much importance to memory in their paintings. Maybe what one doesn’t want to acknowledge is the adequacy of their vision relative to a certain technical versatility, incorporating with it new plastic paths to reach the image. The abstraction and the observation of the latter through the computer screen for example, supports this process.

What lies in painting a screen is that every little thing implies an inflation of the outlook, subtracting other sensorial vectors from the action and conceding everything, or almost everything, to the axis thought-eye. Hegel would love that.

Nevertheless, as someone already said, despite the fact that the memory content is a function of the speed of oblivion, the M9 hybridise their performance under constant alertness, thus calibrating in their paintings anything that could suggest a stupor of their surroundings.

What the M9 have in common is that they don’t create through indexing. Hence, their concrete painting issue unfolds, without excessive concern, like a version of something that commemorates the already seen.

Now, it is from that standpoint (that one could consider as being a kind of exit priming), that one starts to feel this tipping point in which, as Valéry said, the supreme imperative is not to make what has already been made. Accordingly, they opt for friendship between the parties to be based upon the trust in correctness, even with the risk of their own destruction.

There is a certain mystery around this group of people that gets together and wants to keep on painting. In light of the desert of options and the actual apathy around anything pictorial, the whole thing takes on overtones of a bet that resists the diaspora and which, in spite of everything, aspires to reach a balanced situation. Matter of trust.

In the face of this, they, like other groups of young artists, bravely gather in studios and premises around the city outskirts.

Perhaps, like what is usually said of small neolithic communities, and despite a certain technical precariousness, they are indeed building the most fitting way of living, without excluding happiness from their environment for all that.

 

Luis Candaudap. September 2019.

“Disturbed” 92×73 cm. oil on panel + “Boonsboro” 41×33 cm. oil on panel. 2019.

“Develyn” 60×48 cm. Oil on panel + “Fui” 120×95 cm. Oil on panel. 2019.

“Untitled 1”.33x41cm. Oil on panel.  +“Untitled 2”.15×13,5cm. Oil on panel.  2019.

 

 

 

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