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E BERG
GADO
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elos
From Janu
uary 24th, 2015 to Marcch 14th, 2015.
Opening: Saturday,
S
J
January
24th, from 12 pm onward
ds.
ESPA
ACIO MÍN
NIMO Galllery presentts the fifth solo exhibition of BEN
NE BERGA
ADO titledd
"
"lures":
lurres as signaals and claaims, temptaations and warnings. This new eexhibition deals
d
aboutt
p
previous
toppics of her works as the
t signagee of use and consumerr objects, thhe cage as habitat, orr
s
sculpture
as a containeer, but also with new elements
e
intto their reppertoire suchh as eggs, trap
t
nets orr
c
cages.
With careful proocesses, form
ms and mateerials, and from
f
a purely sculpturaal sensibility
y, his seriess
innvestigate the
t complexxities of conntemporaryy experiencees in relatioon to the forrms of prod
duction andd
f
feeding.
Forrmalizing a reflection of represenntation and reality in XXI
X centuryy context, touching onn
toopics such as awareness of limits, the prevallence of con
ntainers on content, ressources and
d waste, thee
s
standardizat
tion of the disaster
d
as reesult the succcess of thee culture of developmen
d
nt...
The works presented are
a in three series:
I. HABITATS Series.
BEN
NE BERGA
ADO continnuing the seeries ‘habita
ats’, of his exhibition H
HOM@ of 2010, withh
thhe work enttitled trap 1.
1 Built from
m a cage-traap for largee animals annd elementss of interiorr fittings forr
h
humans,
mixxed home with
w the traap, and undeerstands arcchitecture such a secreetion of the inhabitant..
T work coonfronts us with a spacce within sppace for whiich we are simultaneou
This
s
usly hunter and
a hunted,,
h
human
and animal, sppectators annd contempplated. As "still
"
lifes" your luress are also traces of a
d
dwelling:
a plate,
p
food debris
d
and droppings,
d
c in bron
cast
nze and all painted
p
in oiil.
II. EGG seriies.
The play "trash
h eggs" connsists of a set
s of differrent sizes egggs filled w
with not org
ganic waste,,
s
suspended
a caught in a net. Each
and
E
of theem are regiistered withh an enviroonmental management
m
t
s
system
codee, the chemiical formulaa of a food type-base, and genericc formulas of the mateerials whichh
thhe egg has been built. The inner eggs trash consists of all plastic packaging
p
pproducts that the artistt
h rejected in a monthh. The measurement off civilization
has
n, based on the amountt of waste, also
a alludess
too the dangeer of symboolic fraud linnked to the culture of "sustainable
"
e capitalism
m" even to th
he standardd
leegalization of destructtion throughh environmeental manag
gement systems (SGA
A: UNE, ISO
O, etc.) andd
thhe rating aggencies. Egggs are not just trash deposits
d
derrived of plaastics materrials and ex
xpensive oill
b
biodegradati
ion, but alsoo viable seeeds of a new
w rebiogenerration.
The work entitlled "biotic bomb” is based
b
on an
n egg shapee. This worrk recreatess an ‘Orsinii
b
bomb’,
iconn of the sociial revolutioon of the laate nineteen
nth. This bomb is a broonze contain
ner stuffingg
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urther inform
mation or to request imagges, please ccontact the G
Gallery www.eespaciominim
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67 61 56 with "Nendoos-dangos" -clay pelletts mixed with
w
w seeds (w
white cloverr, beans, caayenne, etc.)-, plantingg
s
system
beloonging to the Fukuokka methodd. The phillosophy off this cultuure method
d based onn
reproducing the naturaal soil condiitions as closely as po
ossible, is based
b
on noot do, not in
ntervene orr
f
force
things.
III. MAPS series.
0cm made through
t
inkkjet directly
y on dibondd
The work "Gaiaa leaves" is an image of 120x200
representingg a map whhose continnents are caabbage’s leaaves cheweed by snailss. The chan
nge in tonee
trransforms the
t leaves into
i
fragmeents of skinn where thee bites, crusshed or dam
maged areass appear ass
w
wounds,
injuured or bruuised. It is as
a if by chaanging the color of thee leaves it shows lesio
ons that aree
h
hidden
from
m our eyes. In this worrk the refereence to the “Gaia hypoothesis” shoows the maap as a vitall
inndicator of the declinee of our terrritory. It haas been mod
dified by thhe life, and therefore th
he resultingg
c
conditions
a a conseqquence and responsibili
are
r
ity of life th
hat inhabits it.
i
BEN
NE BERGA
ADO (Salam
manca, 19633), graduateed in Fine Art
A at Univeersidad del País
P Vasco..
In 1987 she was awardeed the Artisstic Creationn Scholarship form Dipputación Foral de Vizcaaya and shee
w Professoor at the Finne Art Department of the
was
t Universsidad del Paaís Vasco frrom 1987 to
o 1997. Shee
c
currently
livve and worrks in Maddrid. She haas exhibited
d at internaational gallleries and institutional
i
l
s
spaces
such as Sala Caarlos III of the Univerrsidad Públiica de Navarra in Pam
mplona, the Palacio dee
A
Abrantes
de Salamancaa or BILBA
AO Arte in Bilbao,
B
and has taken part
p in impoortant collecctive showss
s
such
as Muuestra de Arte
A
Joven (1992) at Museo Esp
pañol de Arte
A
Contem
mporáneo de
d Madrid,,
D
Distancia
Cero (1994) at Centro de Arte Saanta Mónicaa de Barceelona, Guree Artea (1996) at Salaa
R
Rekalde
in Bilbao, Prrocesos (19997) Festivval Internacional de Lima, Perúú, Como nos
n vemos..
Imágenes y arquetipos femeninos (1998) Cenntro Cultural Tecla Saala, Hospitaalet (Barcelo
ona), Transs
S
Sexual
Exppress (19999) BILBA
AO Arte, Bilbao,
B
PAS
SION. Diseeño españool (2002),, travellingg
e
echibition
inn Spain andd Germany,, Imágenes de mujer en la plástiica españolaa del siglo XX (2003))
M
Museo
Pablo Serrano, Zaragoza, Indisciplina
I
ados (2003) MARCO. Museo de aarte contem
mporáneo dee
V
Vigo,
Vete a tu habitaación (20033) Casa Enncendida, Madrid,
M
Conntemporaryy Art. Castiilla y Leónn
(2005) Whitte Box, New
w York, Dibbujando al revés
r
(2006
6) Centro Cuultural Monntehermoso de Vitoria,,
P
Para
todos los
l públicoss (2006) Saala Rekaldde, Bilbao, Existencias
E
(2007) MU
USAC. Mu
useo de artee
c
contemporán
neo de Casstilla y León, León, IN
NCÓGNITA
AS. Cartogrrafías del aarte contemp
poráneo enn
E
Euskadi
(20007) Museeo Guggenhheim, Bilbao, Suprafi
ficciones (22007) Funddación Caix
xa, Lleida,,
E
Esculturismo
o (2008) Saala de la Coomunidad de
d Madrid, Alcala
A
31, Madrid,
M
Poole! (2012) Fundaciónn
J
JUMEX,
M
México
D.F.… Also, he
h particippated on In
nternational Art Fairs as ARCO
O (Madrid),,
F
FRIEZE
AR
RT FAIR (Londres), ZonaMAC
CO (México
o D.F.), CIGE
C
(Beijiing), SHcon
ntemporaryy
(Shanghai), ART BAS
SEL MIAM
MI BEACH
H (Miami), ART CHICAGO (Chhicago), AR
RTISSIMA
A
(Turín), AR
RT FORUM
M BERLIN
N (Berlín),, ART BR
RUSSELS (Bruselas),, THE GR
RAMERCY
Y
IN
NTERNAT
TIONAL CO
ONTEMPO
ORARY AR
RT FAIR (New
(
Yorkk, Los Anggeles y Miaami)… Herr
w
work
is in thhe nationalss collectionns of, amonggst others, MUSAC
M
(M
Museo de A
Arte Contem
mporáneo dee
C
Castilla
y Leeón) en Leóón, el Museeo ARTIUM
M de Vitoriaa… or internnational as Colección JUMEX dee
M
México
D.F or Estrellitta B. Brodskky Collectioon of New York.
Y
For fu
urther inform
mation or to request imagges, please ccontact the G
Gallery www.eespaciominim
mo.es galleriia@espaciom
minimo.es Teel: +34 91 46
67 61 56