RESET I and MODERNISM
Sept 5 – Nov 28, 2015
Das multimediale Œuvre des Spaniers Pepo Salazar zeichnet sich durch eine experimentelle und rebellische Attitude aus und ist von der ikonoklastischen Bildsprache der Punk-Kultur beeinflusst. Der spanische Künstler arbeitet in verschiedenen Medien, darunter Installationen, Assemblagen, Klangarbeiten, Collagen und Performance. Sein Stil definiert sich weniger über die Form als über die Haltung: eine anti-ästhetische, radikale Direktheit. Pepo Salazar ist einer der drei Künstler, die Kurator Martí Manen für die Ausstellung im spanischen Pavillon der 56. Biennale Venedig ausgewählt hat (bis 22. November).
In der Tradition künstlerischer Avantgarden wirft Pepo Salazar einen kritischen Blick auf gesellschaftliche Phänomene wie den Einfluss der Massenmedien und die Konsumkultur. Aus verschiedenen Materialien (Video, Klang, Metall, Glass, Leuchtstoffröhren) schafft er Räume voller Inhalte, in denen sich verschiedene Informationsschichten überlagen. Mit dieser Methode will der Künstler ganz bewusst Verwirrung stiften. In vielen seiner Werke verarbeitet er von der zeitgenössischen Philosophie inspirierte Sprachsysteme. Das Resultat ist ein intelligentes Spiel mit Worten und ihrer Bedeutung. Durch die Verwendung von billigen Wegwerfobjekten haben Salazars Assemblagen einen direkten, rauen und ungeschliffenen Charakter.
„Pepo Salazar hat er verdichtetes Stück geschaffen mit vielen Schichten von Materialien und Informationen. Ohne die Notwendigkeit, eine Erzählung zu suchen, sondern auf eher linguistische Weise arbeitend. Und wieder ist es eine fortgeschrittene Politik, jenseits von dem, was wir traditionellerweise als Politik kennen. Es geht um Konsum, um eine Typologie des Inhalts, um das Vermischen von Referenzen und Momente ohne festen Halt; es geht darum eine Situation zu schaffen, die weniger verstanden als bemerkt werden soll, was extrem mutig ist.“
– Martí Manen (Interview mit Manuel Segade in www.a-desk.org, Juni 2015)
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
2017 Pepo Salazar, CCA Andratx. Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2016 Pepo Salazar, SEAC. Selección de Euskadi de arte de concepto. Artium Museum, Vitoria- Gasteiz, Spain
2016 Pepo Salazar, ARCO 2016, w/Galerie Joseph Tang, Madrid, Spain
2016 Pepo Salazar, SABOT Gallery, Cluj, Romania
2015 Pepo Salazar, – zçrwaq ¡’¡¡’0. Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, France
2015 Pepo Salazar, Los sujetos (w Cabello/Carceller and Francesc Ruiz. Spanish Pavilion at Biennale di Venezia, 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2015 Pepo Salazar, Hit Me Baby One More Time. Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Pepo Salazar, My pre-post End (and bla bla bla, zzzz), Box 27 – Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2015 Pepo Salazar, Expansión a la ciudadanía. Trastero 109, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2012 Pepo Salazar, Time of emergencies, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2011 Pepo Salazar, When cut across the neck a sound like wailing winter wind is heard. Leyendecker Gallery, Tenerife, Spain
2011 Pepo Salazar, Descendents. The Black Pillar, Madrid, Spain
2009 Pepo Salazar, Forgotten children conform a new faith. Pepo Salazar. Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009 Pepo Salazar, Rats live on no evil star. Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
2008 Pepo Salazar. Walk among us. Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2006 Pepo Salazar, Rich bitch with stinking slit. Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 Pepo Salazar/Daniela Wolfer. Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 Pepo Salazar, 18591372-n.V.2. Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Studio 1, Berlin, Germany
2003 Pepo Salazar, I scream icecream. Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
2003 Pepo Salazar, Gure Artea. Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2002 Pepo Salazar, 8591372-N. Galería Trayecto, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2001 Pepo Salazar, Of sth/ to do sth/ that. Bejewelled corpse. Sala de Cultura Carlos III, Pamplona, Spain
2001 Pepo Salazar, retail item / masa Hogan. Espacio Abisal, Bilbao. Spain, Spain
1998 Pepo Salazar, retail item / masa Hogan. Sala Amárica, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
2016 S.E.A.C. Selección de Euskadi de Arte de Concepto, Retrospective show, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2016 Dôme, Ela projects. Athenas, Greece
2016 The Garden, ROOM E-10 27. Paris. France
2015 Punk. Its traces in contemporary art, MACBA Museum, Barcelona, Spain
2015 Grand Illusion, Simon Preston Gallery, New York City, USA Collecting artists, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, France
2015 Transformer, Upstreamgallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 RESET, Priska Pasquer Galerie, Köln, Germany
2015 No Song to Sing, Adn platform, Barcelona, Spain
2015 The trick in the smile, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2015 Disorder. The curious case of disheveled art, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2015 Punk. Its Traces In Contemporary Art, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2015 Punk. Its Traces In Contemporary Art, CA2M, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo Art Center, Madrid, Spain
2015 Progreso, libertad, auto realización, DA2 Museum, Salamanca, Spain
2014 A pause for refIection, MUSAC, Museum of contemporary art of Castilla y León, León, Spain
2014 Open times, DA2 Museum, Salamanca, Spain
2014 Open times, Tomás y Valiente Art Center, Madrid, Spain
2014 Sin quietud. Sobre los intersticios de la identidad, MEIAC Museum, Badajoz, Spain
2014 Invisible violence, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2014 Invisible violence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad, Serbia
2014 Suturak. Cerca de lo próximo, San Telmo Museum, San Sebastian, Spain
2014 Atrévete si quieres a no hacer nunca lo que debes, T20 Gallery, Murcia, Spain
2014 Espacio Liso. Éxodo o diáspora?, AB9 Space, Murcia, Spain
2013 Pop politics. Activismos a 33 revoluciones, CA2M, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo Art Center, Madrid, Spain
2013 Art Rotterdam Art Fair, w/Upstream Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2013 decade upstream, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Ideas y presupuestos, Galeria Liebre, Madrid, Spain
2013 Teatro de Anatomía, RMS el Espacio, Madrid, Spain
2013 Declaración de ruina, Fundación Cerezales Antonio y Cina, León, Spain
2012 Montage of attractions, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2012 Time of emergencies, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz,
2012 ES ARCO Art Fair, w/Leyendecker Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011 CAM Grants, Alicante, Palma de Mallorca and Valencia, Spain
2011 ES ARCO Art Fair, w/Leyendecker Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2010 Basado en hechos reales, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2009 Cruise or be cruised, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
2008 NADA Art Fair, w/Upstreamgallery, Miami, USA
2008 LISTE Art fair, w/Upstreamgallery, Basel, Switzerland
2008 Intransit, Motti Hasson Gallery, NYC, USA
2008 I died for beauty, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, NYC, USA
2008 X Muestra Internacional Union Fenosa, MACUF Museo de arte contemporaneo, A Coruña, Spain
2008 MACO Art Fair, w/Galeria Casado Santapau, Mexico DF, Mexico
2007 Values, Art In General, NYC, USA
2007 Cartografías del arte contemporáneo en Euskadi, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2007 Existencias, MUSAC, Museo de Arte contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Spain
Auszeichnungen
Gure Artea Prize 2004, Basque Government
Creation and research grant, Artium Museum
CAM Grant for arts, Valencia, ES
MUSAC grant for creation, MUSAC Museum
Muestra de Arte Joven 2001, Injuve
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
FLACC Centrum voor kunsten en beeldcultuur, Genk, BE
Generaciones 2002, La casa encendida
Anual Amárica de Artes plásticas, Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava
Press DE
Spanish artist Pepo Salazar’s body of multimedia work is characterised by an experimental and rebellious attitude and bears the influence of punk culture and its iconoclastic imagery. The Spanish artist works with various media, including installations, assemblages, soundscapes, collages and performances. His style is less defined by its form than by its attitude: an anti-aesthetic, radical directness. Salazar is one of three artists that curator Martí Manen selected for the exhibition in the Spanish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (until 22 November).
In the artistic avant-garde tradition, Salazar casts a critical eye on social phenomena such as the influence of mass media and consumer culture. Working with various materials (video, sound, metal, glass, fluorescent tubes), he creates spaces filled with contents in which numerous layers of information overlap. The artist consciously uses this method to create confusion. In many of his works, he processes linguistic systems inspired by contemporary philosophy. The result is an intelligent play on words and their meanings. The use of cheap throwaway objects gives Salazar’s assemblages a direct, raw and coarse character.
“Pepo Salazar has made a condensed piece, with layers and layers of material and information, with no need to seek a narrative but working in an almost linguistic manner. And once again it’s advanced politics, outside what we traditionally know as politics. It’s about consumption, a typology of content, of mixing references and moments with no holds barred; it’s about generating a situation not to be understood so much as to be noted, which is extremely brave.”
– Martí Manen (interview mit Manuel Segade in www.a-desk.org, June 2015)
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Pepo Salazar, CCA Andratx. Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2016 Pepo Salazar, SEAC. Selección de Euskadi de arte de concepto. Artium Museum, Vitoria- Gasteiz, Spain
2016 Pepo Salazar, ARCO 2016, w/Galerie Joseph Tang, Madrid, Spain
2016 Pepo Salazar, SABOT Gallery, Cluj, Romania
2015 Pepo Salazar, – zçrwaq ¡’¡¡’0. Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, France
2015 Pepo Salazar, Los sujetos (w Cabello/Carceller and Francesc Ruiz. Spanish Pavilion at Biennale di Venezia, 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2015 Pepo Salazar, Hit Me Baby One More Time. Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Pepo Salazar, My pre-post End (and bla bla bla, zzzz), Box 27 – Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2015 Pepo Salazar, Expansión a la ciudadanía. Trastero 109, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2012 Pepo Salazar, Time of emergencies, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2011 Pepo Salazar, When cut across the neck a sound like wailing winter wind is heard. Leyendecker Gallery, Tenerife, Spain
2011 Pepo Salazar, Descendents. The Black Pillar, Madrid, Spain
2009 Pepo Salazar, Forgotten children conform a new faith. Pepo Salazar. Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009 Pepo Salazar, Rats live on no evil star. Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
2008 Pepo Salazar. Walk among us. Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2006 Pepo Salazar, Rich bitch with stinking slit. Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 Pepo Salazar/Daniela Wolfer. Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 Pepo Salazar, 18591372-n.V.2. Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Studio 1, Berlin, Germany
2003 Pepo Salazar, I scream icecream. Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
2003 Pepo Salazar, Gure Artea. Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2002 Pepo Salazar, 8591372-N. Galería Trayecto, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2001 Pepo Salazar, Of sth/ to do sth/ that. Bejewelled corpse. Sala de Cultura Carlos III, Pamplona, Spain
2001 Pepo Salazar, retail item / masa Hogan. Espacio Abisal, Bilbao. Spain, Spain
1998 Pepo Salazar, retail item / masa Hogan. Sala Amárica, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Group Exhibitions
2016 S.E.A.C. Selección de Euskadi de Arte de Concepto, Retrospective show, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2016 Dôme, Ela projects. Athenas, Greece
2016 The Garden, ROOM E-10 27. Paris. France
2015 Punk. Its traces in contemporary art, MACBA Museum, Barcelona, Spain
2015 Grand Illusion, Simon Preston Gallery, New York City, USA Collecting artists, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, France
2015 Transformer, Upstreamgallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 RESET, Priska Pasquer Galerie, Köln, Germany
2015 No Song to Sing, Adn platform, Barcelona, Spain
2015 The trick in the smile, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2015 Disorder. The curious case of disheveled art, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2015 Punk. Its Traces In Contemporary Art, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2015 Punk. Its Traces In Contemporary Art, CA2M, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo Art Center, Madrid, Spain
2015 Progreso, libertad, auto realización, DA2 Museum, Salamanca, Spain
2014 A pause for refIection, MUSAC, Museum of contemporary art of Castilla y León, León, Spain
2014 Open times, DA2 Museum, Salamanca, Spain
2014 Open times, Tomás y Valiente Art Center, Madrid, Spain
2014 Sin quietud. Sobre los intersticios de la identidad, MEIAC Museum, Badajoz, Spain
2014 Invisible violence, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2014 Invisible violence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad, Serbia
2014 Suturak. Cerca de lo próximo, San Telmo Museum, San Sebastian, Spain
2014 Atrévete si quieres a no hacer nunca lo que debes, T20 Gallery, Murcia, Spain
2014 Espacio Liso. Éxodo o diáspora?, AB9 Space, Murcia, Spain
2013 Pop politics. Activismos a 33 revoluciones, CA2M, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo Art Center, Madrid, Spain
2013 Art Rotterdam Art Fair, w/Upstream Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2013 decade upstream, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Ideas y presupuestos, Galeria Liebre, Madrid, Spain
2013 Teatro de Anatomía, RMS el Espacio, Madrid, Spain
2013 Declaración de ruina, Fundación Cerezales Antonio y Cina, León, Spain
2012 Montage of attractions, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2012 Time of emergencies, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz,
2012 ES ARCO Art Fair, w/Leyendecker Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011 CAM Grants, Alicante, Palma de Mallorca and Valencia, Spain
2011 ES ARCO Art Fair, w/Leyendecker Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2010 Basado en hechos reales, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2009 Cruise or be cruised, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
2008 NADA Art Fair, w/Upstreamgallery, Miami, USA
2008 LISTE Art fair, w/Upstreamgallery, Basel, Switzerland
2008 Intransit, Motti Hasson Gallery, NYC, USA
2008 I died for beauty, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, NYC, USA
2008 X Muestra Internacional Union Fenosa, MACUF Museo de arte contemporaneo, A Coruña, Spain
2008 MACO Art Fair, w/Galeria Casado Santapau, Mexico DF, Mexico
2007 Values, Art In General, NYC, USA
2007 Cartografías del arte contemporáneo en Euskadi, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2007 Existencias, MUSAC, Museo de Arte contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Spain
Residencies and Grants
Gure Artea Prize 2004, Basque Government
Creation and research grant, Artium Museum
CAM Grant for arts, Valencia, ES
MUSAC grant for creation, MUSAC Museum
Muestra de Arte Joven 2001, Injuve
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
FLACC Centrum voor kunsten en beeldcultuur, Genk, BE
Generaciones 2002, La casa encendida
Anual Amárica de Artes plásticas, Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava
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RESET II AND FUTURISM
Sep 3, 2016 – Jan 21, 2017