SC Gallery presents DUO ABS, a group exhibition that will feature works by Alejandro González Osés (Santander, 1990), Fermín Moreno Martín (Bilbao, 1970), Dunja Jankovic (Croatia, 1980), Gabriel Coca (Pamplona, 1989), Nuria Mora (Madrid, 1974) and 108 Guido Bisagni (Alessandria, 1978).
Exhibition from 29/11 to 24/01. 2025
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Opening hours from Tuesday to Friday _ 17:00h to 20:30h
Mornings and Saturdays (by appointment).
108 GUIDO BISAGNI “Season of Mists 1-2”
Mixed media on canvas .100 x 70 cm. (2024).
ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ OSÉS_ “Glue cow I & II”.
Oil wax and oil on canvas. 100 x 70 cm. (2024).
NURIA MORA _ “Tres pies & Tercer ojo”
Acrylic sand and oil on linen canvas. 100 x 70 cm. (2024).
FERMIN MORENO MARTIN _ “CINABRIO & LITIO 2”
Acrylic on 350 g/m2 Basik Paper. 100 x 70 cm . (2023 / 2022)
GABRIEL COCA _“Fallen leaves I & II”
Oil on canvas. 100 x 70 cm (2024)
DUNJA JANKOVIC_ “S.T. I & II”
Acrilyc on canvas. 100 x 70 cm. (2024)
DUO ABS will display 12 original pieces of artwork, all sharing the same format and recently created. With this exhibition, SC Gallery continues its commitment to painting, a practice capable of creating stimuli through the personal vision of the artists to generate a fresh reflection on contemporary painting.
From abstract art we have inherited the belief that painting is autonomous, pure and an end in itself. As a result, we tend to define its components as if they were its limits. However, as Philip Guston said: “Painting is impure. It is the adjustment of impurities which forces its continuity”. The artists included in this exhibition understand that the most fruitful places for the development of painting have come from pictorial practice itself. This perspective, which has long been interpreted as a form of disciplinary self-absorption, has nowadays become subversive. Thinking about drawing, process, geometry or even the history of painting from their own logics is a constant source of ideas to be explored, which is evident in this group exhibition.
Gilles Deleuze claimed the value of the surface as a privileged place of meaning. The act of painting is an art of surfaces. While it is developed exclusively on the surface of the canvas, this surface’s role as both a limit and a container allows for the potential expansion of the medium to other supports and broadcasting avenues. In today’s painting, the ability to simultaneously represent and deny what is represented becomes something that is no longer concerned with temporal issues. It no longer wants to have a strictly narrative intention: it has become a visual manifestation that evokes a mystery within the medium itself.
In the 1980s, artist Peter Halley posited what he called “The Crisis in Geometry”. In his opinion, “Where once geometry provided a sign of stability, order, and proportion, today it offers an array of shifting signifiers and images of confinement and deterrence”. He argued that “The formalist project in geometry is discredited […]. It no longer seems possible to accept geometric form as […] transcendental order […]. We are launched instead into a […] search for the veiled signifieds that the geometric sign may yield”. This perspective leads us to explore and understand the multiple interpretations and messages that may be present in the pictorial works in this exhibition, rather than simply seeing them as representations of order and stability.
In abstract painting, the responsibility no longer rests so much on a specific type of production, but rather on the ability of each artist to dictate meaning to what best articulates their concerns, a reasoning that prioritizes the plastic experience over the final form of presentation. These artists understand painting in a generous way, as an artistic activity influenced by other disciplines, by the technological evolution and by the cultural context in which they live. These conditions allow them to approach painting in a way that aligns with their interests through a process of continuous decision-making.
This exhibition will be open for the public in SC Gallery, Bilbao, from 29 November 2024 through 24 January 2025.
For more information contact : scgallery@scgallery.es
