ANIMACOR 2005 - Exhibition: Sesiones Animadas
ANIMACOR 2005 - EXHIBITION: SESIONES ANIMADAS
Exhibition organizated by ANIMACOR and produced by the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) and the Departamento de Audiovisuales del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS).
From 17th october until 30th october
Opening times:
Monday to Friday: 9:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00
Saturday and Sunday: 9:00 to 14:00.
Opening: Día 17 de octubre a las 11:30
Palacio de la Merced. Diputación de Córdoba.
Plaza de Colón, 15 14001 Córdoba
Tel. 957 211589 Fax 957 211266.
info@animacor.com gestion@animacor.com
Admission free.
The basic intent of this exhibition and video program is to present a summarised view of current international animated cartoons through the videography of important artists whose work is centred on the field of animation.
Different examples and technical categories were sought within this medium, ranging from those most closely associated with drawing to others using modelling clay, animation in 3D, and digital applications in general.
Contemporary visual education stemming from television (the constant viewing of cartoons from an early age), video-games (which are almost totally animation), together with an ever-increasing rise in advertising, video-clips and full-length films using these techniques, provide favourable conditions for both the public and for artists, who regard the medium as something natural that they have always lived with. If to all this is added the opening up of the current art scene towards the wide ranging field of film and video, the history of animation itself (often close to the history of the avant-garde art and film) and its hybrid character between drawing, painting, modelling, and cinema, it is hardly surprising that it exerts a great attraction for both the artist and the public.
The project’s eight retrospectives of works by Manu Arregui, Feng Mengbo, Kyupi-Kyupi, Liane Lang, Jordi Moragues, Joshua Mosley, Magnus Wallin and Karen Yasinsky permit, above all, a thorough knowledge of their different careers, allowing comparisons between them to be made, which will enable the public to get a better idea of the complexity of the differences and similarities that animation gives today’s artists. At the same time, the ???
?A?º? exhibitions takes us deeper into an anthology of tales that we will probably find gripping in themselves.
Manu Arregui, who only makes animated cartoons, has built up a body of work that is concerned with identity, tackled from a cinematographic approach and influenced by the rhythmic, as a way of talking about an interior world engrossed in itself.
The work methods and the results of the Japanese group Kyupi-Kyupi overflow all borders and take the spectator deep into a crazy and exuberant world containing everything except restraint.
The extreme violence, the strict division between the good and the bad, the exaggerated individualism are characteristics of video-games and today’s culture. Feng Mengbo acts on all this, doing installations, Internet projects and videos.
A certain gloomy atmosphere, animated plasticine characters, repetitive human actions, etc. The type of animation practiced by Liane Lang is very conscious of itself, of the roles and consequences implied by its use and the transformations of meaning it produces.
Each new work by Jordi Moragues is completely different from the one before: he has delved into the world of video-games, science fiction, a well-known love story and a “documentary” about a particular animal.
Joshua Mosley is characterised by the effectiveness of the pieces he has made, invaded by lyricism and a great narrative impulse to create fictions that “reveal profound truths”, combining different techniques to achieve this.
The works of Magnus Wallin evince a certain pessimi ???
?A?º?stic fatalism about the human condition and also human actions, within an aesthetics close to that of video games.
Lastly, Karen Yasinsky physically constructs her protagonists: their bodies, their clothes and their small heads, but first she designs their characters. Her animation is faux-naïve and hand-crafted in a technological world.
Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes
Curator
