Overview - Solo show: Mayte Vieta - La fragilidad del mundo

	Mayte Vieta

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MAYTE VIETA "The Fragility of the world"

Galería Javier Marín
7th of September - 21th of October 2006
Inauguration: Thursday 7th of September, at 20:00.
Timetable: M-F: from 11:00 to 13:30, and from 18:00 to 21:00 h. S: from 11:00 to 13:30.

The Gallery JM presents the firs individual in Andalusia of Mayte Vieta (Blanes, Gerona, Spain, 1970). With title "The fragility of the world" which compose the exhibition of a selection of recent works in which the artist reflects relating to the idea of fragility from a personal need to catch the moments, lived and imagined, that structure her memory. The sample consists of several pieces realized in photographic support and an installation with sculptures in bronze with which this artist of multidisciplinary formation invites the viewer to the contemplation of sceneries of huge metaphorical charge.

From the beginnings of her artistic trajectory, the pieces created by Mayte are structured as a trip in a memory of her personal experiences that provides them with magic/poetical character. Her first sculptures were transferring reconciliation of opposite, to a melancholic dialectics confluence of pain and pleasure, which was evoking to the spectator the presence of the absence. In this sense, the use amateur of the photo was relevant in her works for her aptitude to capture and to transform in memory what does not exist any more. Derivatives of a peculiar use of the light and the time, this method was providing also to her images an ambivalence and discontinuity that exceeds for the spectator the personal and autobiographical. Elaborated from the artistic ripeness, we present three photos of the series of eloquent title "Cenizas" (Ashes), 2005 - 2006. These images of big format and mounted in aluminium, stand out for their sad and oneiric aura, beautiful signs of fragility of the world and with the death as horizon. To emphasize "El Camino" (The way), of a darkness that he invites the spectator to liberate his own desires of fear, distresses, pain, waiting …

As it is usual in her exhibitions, Mayte Vieta does not limit herself to hang her photos, she complements them with facilities or objects which aptitude to talk between each other in the space has like result of creation of an ambience of. In this case, the squalid presence of stairs ("Escaleras", 2003) contrasts with the colouring and routinity of the photographed sceneries, but also this miscellany of beauty and bleakness, plenitude and fleetingness complements itself to the perfection with the elongated shades and the birds placed in the crossbars, on the halfway between the life and the death.

Series as "Animales del tiempo" (Animals of the time), to what this installation belongs, it wouldn't exist if it didn't exist "Corredores de luz" (2001 - 2003), sceneries atemporales and devoid of the presence of the man that they depart from the negligence and are visioned for the spectator as possible ways out windows. Evoking sensations of search, change and desires of freedom, the spatial references remain momentarily pendent and the time interrupted in a few works, which panoramic format opens a crack in the explanatory space before which the look initiates a trip … from "Cabo de Gata" to the Chilean island of Chiloé ("En la noche seras sombra" (In the night you will be a shade)), destinations in these images loaded with a necessary ambivalence.

Finally, the pieces of the series "Vertigo" (Dizziness), 2002 are coming closer shut the circle: after the sad hours, the ashes, the sceneries on which it falls down the night, the inanimate birds, the infinite horizons between the life and the sleep ..., images of the weightless body floating in the sea origin of life. A refuge for the immersed spectator in the watery darkness of a room in which these suggestive photographs stand out with light projected from behind.

Graduate in painting and sculpture and nevertheless self-educated formation in the field of the photo, Mayte Vieta (Blanes, Gerona, Spain, 1971) has received the Award of Photo of 46è Lounge d'Art Contemporain, Montrouge, Paris (2001) among other awards and scholarships, and has participated in PARIS FHOTO 2005, international Lounge of the photographie, Paris. Between her last individual shows, we can mention: La fragilitat del món, Cendres, Tinglado 2, Tarragona, El instante retratado, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungría, and Al otro lado, Galería Maior, Palma de Mallorca (2006); La ingravidez del instante, Galería Fernando Silió, Santander (2005); Sem Fim, Galeria Jorge Shirley, Lisboa (2005); Tan lejos, tan cerca. Galería dels àngels, Barcelona y En la noche serás sombra, Galería Global Art Source, Zurich (2004).

To make to contemplate, to make to imagine
Luis Puelles Romero

The first thing that I will say to her will be the first thing that you will know while penetrate in these places wrapped in illuminated images: it will be taken by the silence. "I am not so much interested in the photo as to create ambience". We stay in silence because these images have remained silent. Really, without much ado, they are not sonorous, but they have become silent simultaneously that have reached the power to remain distant; it is not that they are mute, but their sounds-imagine it - do not come so far. It is by means of this creation of the silence, like these images, takes us away from them, being therefore, more than "impact" by the beauty, places and occasions for the inspection of the distant. Mayte Vieta set up her images in order we start contemplating what will never reach. It is significant that one of her most powerful works, "La sonrisa innumerable de las olas del mar" ("The innumerable smile of the waves of the sea"), from 1996, is exhibited accompanied by a bench contributed by the proper artist, to dilate this way the dedication of the look to the always distant sea.

Retaining us in the reflection, these images create (us) again: they create duration and distance, quietude and distance, time and world suggestion ("Animals of time ", 2003: birds in the quietude of other times of other worlds). Thoroughness and distancing. These photos face to its value of "snapshots"; they are antiphotographic photos (this is the best of these antiphotographic photos) because they do not give us the seen but they lead us to imagining the possible: that is why they are redressed in suggestions. And, that's why they produce imagination and do not limit themselves in providing us with scene already seen and reproduced with the technical care of the perfect appearance. They are no simple beautiful photos - that even might turn out to be like kitsch - because they set us to meditate, to lead to us to the imagining habitable worlds that we will never inhabit; these images are beautiful because they retain us - that's why it is necessary to contemplate them and not only to stop and look at them - before suggested worlds. They are beautiful because they make us to imagine. The fruitful thing of managing to make us imagine beyond the images, passing through them towards other worlds that it will be necessary to imagine.

These images have something of auxiliary: they save and serve. Like I sad, they save to take us far away giving us slow and lasting time; they serve because it is they who are representations. Vieta assumes the artistic risk of rehabilitating of the original sense of the "representation"; to be able to have what is not had (this is her illusion). Auxiliary images that wanted to be means and transits, occasions to penetrate into what they show and do not exhibit. They have of "modesty" in a measure of how much free they are of every fascinating spectacularism (and duty) and for being more poetical (creator) that visualists. And, her artistic power is in that, being nevertheless representations, they do not reproduce perceptions but they create worlds of others and with other times, habitable and never habitable: her artistic power consists in creating fiction and inaccessibility. That's why they are the opposite of the advertising-tourist images, capable of imposing on us the access to a world that never stops being next. Those of Mayte Vieta are worlds in the distance and not to the hand, to that to never being going and always possible. Do what the artist does to us: start looking alone and in silence, dedicate all the time of the world to imagine in the way, in the ruin, in the small house or in the cherry tree. Walk towards there ... and don't wait to arrive.

Solo show: Mayte Vieta - La fragilidad del mundo (over)
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Solo show: Mayte Vieta - La fragilidad del mundo (over)