PÉREZ BRAVO IN DIALOGUE IN THE MARCO COLLECTION
The incipient collection of MARCO of Vigo -under construction, but with enough funds to delimit its influence and incidence-, makes its debut in the delimitation of its radius of action with the first exhibition built exclusively with its own funds. For the occasion, the outline that unites Una imagen de sí builds on the general idea that will guide the near future: that Galician art dialogues with the outside world, mainly Latin America, and draws a relational history.
For this presentation in society of the Galician institution's collecting work, three artists have been brought together by curators Miguel Fernández-Cid and María Seoane: Yolanda Herranz Pascual (Baracaldo, Spain, 1957) and Andrea Costas Lago (Vigo, Spain, 1978) and Marta María Pérez Bravo (Havana, Cuba, 1959). The inclusion of the Cuban artist as a representative of that interconnection between realities and geographies is also due to the ethical and esthetic reference of the first order that she represents for Herranz and Costas.
Nevertheless, in Pérez Bravo one can easily observe the importance of ritual and religion, of a markedly syncretic character in her native Cuba, and which marks both her artistic trajectory and that of many other figures in Latin American art. The use of the body as an instrument to materialize the semiotics behind traditions and cults, the unearthing of African tradition and the essence and presence of a dream world frame each performative action, recorded and archived, and which build a framework with diverse meanings.
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Marta María Pérez Bravo. Para ayudar a un hermano, 1994. Fotografía bn, 40 x 30 cm. Colección MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo. Foto cortesía MARCO Vigo
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Marta María Pérez Bravo. Echu entregando, 1997. Fotografía bn, 50 x 40 cm. Colección MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo. Foto cortesía MARCO Vigo
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Andrea Costas Lago. Serie Plena, 2021-2022. Fotografía color, 64 x 84 cm. Colección MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo. Foto cortesía MARCO Vigo
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Yolanda Herranz Pascual. El Arte Sana El Arte Cura. Serie Autorretratos, 2020. Somos una prolongada espera (VIII). Texto y fotografía enmarcada, 90 x 90 x 3 cm. Colección MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
The layout of the exhibition makes it possible to recognize the production of the three artists, who have, as if they were small chamber exhibitions, a broad representation of their work. Even so, this exhibition independence does not eliminate, but rather facilitates the intended dialogue between them, converging themes of common interest such as identity, corporeality, the feminine and art historiography to arrange and surprise the viewer in this conversation of a symbolic and subjective nature, but of enormous transforming capacity.
Una imagen de sí can be seen until March 9 at MARCO, Príncipe, 54, Vigo (Spain).
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