Peter G. Romero

PEDRO G. ROMERO - The Marianas

Técnica: Single 7 ” / 7" Vinyl vinyl

Aracena, Spain, 1964.

Pedro G. Romero has been working as an artist since 1985. He currently works on two large machines, the Archivo FX and the Máquina PH. He participates in UNIA arteypensamiento and in the PRPC (Platform for Reflection on Cultural Policies) in Seville. In 1999 he published El trabajo within the Almadraba project developed in Tangier, Tarifa and Gibraltar. He is the curator of the project …with Arab features in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and El Salvador between 2008 and 2010. He is the commissioner/curator of the Treaty of Peace project for the DSS2016 Cultural Capital. He is the curator of Poesía Brossa, together with Teresa Grandas, for the Macba in Barcelona. For the Seville City Council, together with Luis Montiel and Joaquín Vázquez, he is preparing the exhibition Aplicación Murillo: materialismo, charitas y populismo. He is a participating artist in Documenta14 Athens/Kassel. With the Archivo FX he has presented, among others, the project La Comunidad vacía. Politics, (2006) for the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, ​​Economy Picasso: Economy (2012) for the Museo Picasso Barcelona and Pure Violence: a?´s??s?? (2016) at the Museo San Telmo in Donostia/San Sebastián and other spaces in the Basque Country

In 2007 he presented Thesaurus: Vandalism in the ancient mosque of Yeni Tzami, at Heterotopias, di/visions (from here and elsewhere), Thessaloniki, Greece. In 2009 he showed Archive FX: Silo, as a recapitulation, at the Monastery of Silos/MNCARS. In 2010 he exhibited Thesaurus: Murcia for Transit.org at Manifesta8 in the region of Murcia, Spain, in dialogue with North Africa. Recently he has deployed his work at La Escuela Moderna for the 31st Sao Paulo Biennial. He has appeared in the Spector Books publishing house, Germany, the publication Wirtschaft, Ökonomie, Komjunktur, based on the project exhibited at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. In 2016, as curator, Archive FX presented Sacer. The martyrdom of things, at the Espacio Santa Clara in Seville. In 2017, he presented Don Dinero Dos at the Casa sin fin gallery in Madrid and published the book of texts Los dineros with Periférica. In 2018, he presented the exhibition Habitaciones at the CA2M in Móstoles, the University of Valencia and the MNAC in Barcelona, ​​the first of a series of anthologies that close the work of the Archivo FX.

At Máquina PH he promotes the Independent Platform for Modern and Contemporary Flamenco Studies www.pieflamenco.com. He is the artistic director of the dancer Israel Galván and collaborates with various artists, from Rocío Márquez to Tomás de Perrate, for example. He was curator of the project Ocaña. Actions, performances, activism 1973-1983 for the Virreina in Barcelona and the Montehermoso Art Centre in Vitoria. The publishing house mudito has just published his book Exaltation of Vision on the cinema of Val del Omar and the compilation El ojo partido. Flamenco, mass culture and avant-garde in Athenaica Ediciones. He is currently presenting, together with the architect María García, the project Máquinas de Vivir. Flamenco and architecture in the occupation and vacancy of spaces, which has been presented at Centro/Centro in Madrid and at the Virreina in Barcelona. Between 2018 and 2019, she developed the project “forma-de-vida” (form of life), on the work of flamenco, gypsy and Romani artists, for the Bergen Assembly in Norway and the Kunstvereim in Stuttgart. Her work Las sabias (The Wise Men) was featured on the poster for the 20th Seville Flamenco Biennial.

Aracena, Spain, 1964.

Pedro G. Romero has been operating as an artist since 1985. At present he is developing two ongoing projects: the Archivo FX and the Maquina PH and is participating in UNIA arteypensamiento and the PRPC (Plataforma de Reflexion de Policies Culturales) in Seville. In 1999 he published The work within the Almadraba project, exhibited in Tangier, Tarifa and Gibraltar and then in 2008-09 he acted as curator of Arab traits in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and El Salvador. In 2016 I curated Peace Treaty for the cultural capital DSS2016. In 2017-18 I curated – together with Teresa Grandas – of Poesía Brossa for the MACBA in Barcelona. In 2018-19 at the request of the Seville city council, the artist prepared an exhibition Murillo Application: materialism, charitas and populism, together with Luis Montiel and Joaquín Vázquez. He also participated in Documenta14 Athens/Kassel. With the Archivo FX he has presented exhibitions such as, La Comunidad vacía, Política, (2006) for the Fundacion Tapies in Barcelona, ​​Economía Picasso: Economía, (2012) for the Museo Picasso in Barcelona and Pure Violence: a?´s??s?? (2016) in the Museum of San Telmo in Donostia/San Sebastian – and in other spaces throughout the Basque country.

In 2007 he presented Tesauro: Vandalism in the old mosque of Yeni Tzami as part of the exhibition titled Heterotopias, di/visions (from here and elsewhere), in Salonica, Greece. In 2009 he exhibited Archivo FX: Silo – as a mode of recapitulation – in the monastery of Silos/MNCARS. In 2010 he exhibited Thesaurus: Murica for Transit.org in Manifesta8 in the region of Muirca in Spain, in dialogue with the north of Africa. Recently, he has exhibited work at La Escuela Moderna for the 31st Biennial of Sao Paulo. He has appeared in the Spector Books Editorial, Germany in the publication Wirtschaft, Ökonomie, Komjunktur as a result of the Project exhibited in the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. In 2016 as curator of the Archivo FX he presented Sacer: El Martiotio de las cosas in Santa Clara in Seville. In 2017 he presented Don Dinero Dos, in the Casa Sin Fin gallery in Madrid and he has edited – together with Periferica – the book of texts titled Los Dineros. In 2018 he is presenting in CA2M of Mostoles, the University of Valencia and in the MNAC in Barcelona he is exhibiting Habitacion, the first of a series of anthologies that signify the close of the work of Archive FX
In Maquina, PH promotes the Independent Platform of Modern and Contemprary Flamenco Studies (www.pieflamenco.com). He is the artistic director of the dancer Israel Galvan and he collaborates with various artists such as Rocio Marquez and Tomas de Perrate. He curated the project Ocana: Acciones, Actuaciones, Activism 1973-1983 for the Vierreina of Barcelona and the Centre of Arte Montehermoso in Vitoria. The editors Mudito have just released his book titled Exaltacion de la Vision that investigates the cinema of Val de Omar and the compilation El ojo Partido: Flamenco, Cultura, de Masas y Vanguardias in Athenaica Editions. He is also presenting, together with the architect Maria Garcia, with the project Maquinas de Vivir: Flamenco y arquitectura en laocupacion y desocupacion de espacios that has been exhibited in the Centre of Madrid and in the Vierreina of Barcelona. Through 2018 and 2019 he will unfold, on a European scale, a project titled way-of-life about the work of art Flemish, gypsy and Roma cultures for the assembly in Bergen in Norway and the Kunstvereim in Stuttgart. His work Las Sabias has been used as the publicity images for the XX Bienal de Flamenco in Seville.