Open Galicia, the exhibition season of Galician galleries begins
Sep 15, 2022
How to start September on the right foot? We have a perfect plan for you this month.
The season of artistic events begins throughout Spain. From Galicia, you can enjoy the opening of its 2022/2023 exhibition season in style, with Aberto Galicia, an event where eight Galician galleries inaugurate their exhibitions this September, organized by CONTEMPORÁNEA, the Association of Contemporary Art Galleries of Galicia.
Standing out among them are four galleries where you can discover works of art using different techniques, from the paintings of Din Matamoro or Gloria García Lorca to the plastic work of Ana Pérez Ventura and the metaphorical photographs of Soledad Córdoba.
1. METRO Gallery
Rúa do Xeneral Pardiñas, 12-16, Local 14, 15701 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña
Ana Pérez Ventura | "Turner the page"
In this exhibition by Ana Pérez Ventura we can see previously unseen pieces from two series she has been working on for years, in which she uses two opposing processes: on the one hand, the addition of paint to the multiple layers of the Études, and, on the other, the subtraction based on the perforations of the wood in the Notages. This exhibition also includes her first volume of this series, Tourner la page. It is a work inspired by the "accordions" of sheet music that pianists build to place all the sheets spread out on the music stand and thus avoid having to turn them while playing.
2. MORET ART
Soledad Córdoba | " Trilogy of the soul. Transcendence"
“Trilogy of the soul. Transcendence” is the second solo photography exhibition at Moret Art by Soledad Córdoba, a renowned Asturian artist based in Madrid. This project, carried out in 2019, was the result of the prestigious Leonardo grant for researchers and cultural creators 2017 from the BBVA Foundation, with which the author takes a tour of American deserts, finding in them the “propitious place for revelation, for transcendence”, in the words of Zara Fernández de Moya, curator of the project.
3. Vilaseco Gallery
Gloria García Lorca | "Ardora"
The title of the exhibition comes from a bioluminescence phenomenon called Mar de Ardora , whereby the sea water glows in the dark with the breaking of waves or any other type of movement. In Galicia it can be seen more easily between the end of August and September, when the winds and heat favour the phenomenon. The artist saw it for the first and only time last summer on Corrubedo beach. Inspired by this phenomenon, Gloria García Lorca presents ten pieces painted on cotton canvas with acrylic paint and a ceramic piece made of refractory clay and enamel.
4. Trinta Gallery
Rúa da Virxe da Cerca, 24, 15703 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña
Din Matamoro | "The weight of light"
