Fabio Roncato
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"OPENING LINES"
September 11 – October 18
Group Show
MADRID, HANGAR 113 by ALRIOT COLLECTIVE, Calle Alejandro Sanchez 113
Lariot Collective officially opens the doors of its new space, Hangar 113, a hybrid project that brings together a contemporary gallery, artist studios, and a creative platform. Conceived as a hub for creation, collaboration, and critical thinking within the new creative economy.
To mark this beginning, we present an inaugural group show featuring works by Mario Antón, Borja Colom, Ernesto Crespo, Kmilo Morales, Golnaz Payani, Tomás Pizá, and José Luis Serzo.
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"A Beautiful Highway"
a soloshow by
T O M Á S P I Z Á G A R C Í A
Exhibition curated by
Oscar Manrique
MADRID, Un Lugar, Calle De Cañete 19, 28019
A road. There is no destination, only transit. A sequence of images captured through the car window: palm trees repeating in visual loops, fragments of architecture, twisted gates, graffiti-covered walls opening into graphic wounds. The paintings of A Beautiful Highway are set in that limbo of the journey where everything is movement, but nothing changes. This visual journey—made of repetitions, detours, and fleeting details—finds its counterpart in the pictorial practice of Tomás Pizá, where movement is less narrative than perceptual. The road thus becomes a mental state, and painting, the terrain where that halted speed is transformed into image. From there, the work progresses not through accumulation, but through intensities: colours that vibrate, edges that dissolve, scenes clinging to their own moment before slipping away again. Tomás Pizá approaches painting with an intensity that seeks neither subtleties nor shelters in formal strategies. There is an expressive frontality in his gesture, a willingness to push the image to its limits without the need to resolve it entirely, as, the closer the gaze, the figures decompose, the outlines blur, and the recognisable becomes unstable. Abstraction and figuration do not oppose each other: they coexist in the same visual vibration, just like colour and light, which act as active, almost atmospheric forces, shaping both the space and the internal time of the image. Technically, his painting is constructed from light understood as a plastic material. The brushstroke—loose, energetic—inherits from Mediterranean Impressionism the speed of the gesture but applies it to scenes that are paused, suspended, almost in a state of stillness. However, his practice begins with a process of urban drift and photographic capture, where the image is not an auxiliary tool, but the starting point of a painting that oscillates between documentation and poetic fiction. Far from reproducing it, Pizá allows this initial image to dissolve in the pictorial process, letting it operate as an echo; and from there, he brings forth an entire iconography of the landscape that does not aim to represent the real, but rather to articulate it from perception. The scenes depicted—abandoned summer architectures, disused infrastructures, and their already unmistakable palm trees—become non-places traversed by their own light. The palm trees, in particular, emerge as spectral protagonists of this beautiful highway: trees domesticated to fake nature, postcard icons turned into models of desire. Here, there is nothing truly tropical, except the simulation. These palms, placed on the edge of the asphalt or abandonment, seem part of the set of a low-budget film about a paradise that never existed, in a climate that barely tries to be tropical.
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SOLO SHOW de ERNESTO CRESPO
en ESPACIO PLUS ARTIS
22-29 MARZO 2025
MADRID, Calle San Lorenzo, 3 Centro
La exposición El Jardinero nos invita a un encuentro entre dos mundos que a pesar de su aparente lejanía, comparten una profunda esencia: el arte y la jardinería.
En este cruce de caminos, descubrimos que ambas prácticas se alimentan de los mismos principios de creación, transformación y cuidado. A través de maquetas, pinturas y secuencias visuales, la muestra nos lleva a un espacio donde la jardinería trasciende su rol funcional y se convierte en una experiencia estética, filosófica y, por qué no, espiritual.
Inspirada en el libro La jardinería como arte sagrado de Jeremy Naydler, la exposición nos invita a ver el jardín como un lugar donde lo sagrado se encuentra con lo terrenal.
Las obras aquí presentadas no solo celebran el acto de cultivar, sino que lo convierten en una reflexión sobre las preguntas más universales de la existencia humana, aquellas que surgen cuando nos enfrentamos al ciclo de la vida y la muerte, el crecimiento y la decadencia.
En esta atmósfera llena de resonancias poéticas, la muestra revela que los gestos del jardinero y del artista son uno solo: ambos son sembradores, cultivadores de belleza y significado. Todo acto creativo, ya sea en la tierra o sobre el lienzo, son un acto de fe. La exposición, por tanto, no solo celebra el arte de cultivar, sino también el de vivir y de soñar, en una danza eterna entre la naturaleza y la creación humana.
BEYOND THE SCENE
June 10th - 11th 2023
Shoreditch, 133, Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 7DG
Lariot Collective presented Beyond the Scene a duo show with works by Ernesto Crespo (Cuba 1994) and Filippo Fanciotti (Italy 1988). The synergy between both artists starts with the concept of scenography. The exhibition will be held in an industrial space in Shoreditch from the 10th to the 11th of June.
Ernesto’s work revolves around the construction of the image within the pictorial and cinematographic languages. He becomes a storyteller where its protagonists represent his response to the world around us and essentially to nature and human feeling. In Ernesto’s art the concept of repetition creates images that cover a larger space of reality. Through painting, the passage of time is explored.
Filippo works on the relationship between architecture and art history creating allegories in which the architectural subject stages a satirical discourse that reminds us of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas (a metaphoric encyclopedia, with its constellations of symbolic images). In his work, architecture is just a stage and he becomes the scriptwriter that tells stories of human history.
Ernesto and Filippo's stories function as a stage for exploring universal human conditions. It is in the poetry of these elements that we are able to perceive their work and reflect on what we see.
During the opening, we had a sound performance from BAG at 18:00
BAG is the poetry and sound project of Dan Allison and Jody DeSchutter.
Formed as a spoken word and sound art project, BAG has developed into a live and recorded sonic experience
BOTTO: A Whole Year of Co-Creation
26th - 30th of Oct 2022
LONDON, Downstairs at The Department Store, 248 Ferndale Rd, SW9 8FR
Lariot Collective is happy to announce an exhibition created in collaboration with Botto that will be held Downstairs at The Department Store in Brixton from the 26th to the 30th of October.
Botto: A Whole Year of Co-Creation documents the first year of Botto, a pioneering AI artist whose proposals emerge via a process of co-creation with the thousands of users in its community. Botto, conceived by the German artist Mario Klingemann, is an artistic experiment that opens numerous lines of thought, debate, and conversation on the tools that have only just become available to creative processes and the cultural industry market.
AI Art, Co-Creation, and Authorship: The Botto Experience
On the 27th of October at 6.30 PM we had a reflection on the role of artificial intelligence in art and creative processes, as well as authorship and co-creation work, on the basis of the Botto experience. Led by experts working in a range of creative, academic, and institutional areas, we examineted the possibilities and challenges presented by technology in art and culture, using the experimental process of the AI artist Botto as a guiding thread.
The talk, which have been presented by journalist Kitty Knowles, including the participation of:
- Mario Klingemann, Artist
- Rachel Falconer, Independent curator, researcher and Head of Digital Arts Computing, Goldsmiths University London.
- Carla Rapoport, Executive Director and Founder, Lumen Art Projects
- Carolina Fernández Castrillo, Professor of Cyberculture (UC3M) & Media Art Curator
ORDO AB CHAO
12th - 17th of Sept 2022
LONDON, 1, Frederick St, WC1X 0NG
Through an exercise to recover antique religious triptychs, Mario Antón (Santander, Spain 1993) reflects on the future of our planet, the force of nature and environmental issues.
The work of Mario Antón, has its origins in his family collection of triptychs, pieces that he uses as a blank canvas where he can express the current concerns of our contemporary world.
The triptychs have always been an emblematic format in the world of art, a piece which is not affected by the passage of time; these objects and what they represent, go together in perfect consonance with the historical context in which they are created.
They also have a certain political origin, reflecting the socio-cultural context of the period of their creation, equating the political salvation to the spiritual one.
In this exhibition Mario explores the different stories behind each triptych, and his work of process: from analysing the iconology of each of them to get inspiration, the manual work he does by removing the original painting and preparing the wood, to finally create a new imaginary and iconology maintaining the original spirit of each triptych, reinterpreting the image and the original message and its symbolism with a new language.
The new works emanate from Mario’s constant interest in ancient art, especially medieval and Renaissance devotional painting.
All of his triptychs work with the restoration technique in reverse. Like the paintings that have inspired him, they are vivid, realistic and silent works that make us reflect on the past, present and future.
His works are designed in such a way that they serve to cultivate knowledge about how to be in the world, to develop a deep understanding of our presence on this planet.
LET THE FUTURE BE DECIDED IN SMALL PLACES
26th - 29th of May 2022
LONDON, 4, Garden Walk, Shoreditch, EC2A 3EQ
Lariot Collective presented a solo show with Santiago Talavera (1979) "Let the Future be decided in Small Places".
“In my works there is an abundance of semi-abandoned constructions that appear contained by theatre stands. As if we were the last spectators of some function to which we either arrived early or late, in these works the surrounding natural space appears to take the central role. The apparent "lack of event" allows me to develop scenes where the dispute is situated inside and outside, as if centre stage comprised the stage, the backstage and the surrounding building.
The landscape allows me to displace the main role of the human in order to propose places where, although we are "out of shot", we are no longer the only actors. The series of works The past will have been a strange planet shows small canvases painted with acrylic and graphite where storage rooms, obsolete machinery and improvised tests on architectural remains coexist with our waste, vegetation and non-human animals.
This interaction allows outcomes and narratives to develop on another scale. Perhaps the "time without time" that we have experienced during the pandemic could serve as a guide, as it has undoubtedly amplified already existing needs and intuitions: the desire to live in a time not chained to the means of production, to be able to attend to the secondary or almost insignificant and, above all, overcome the hauntological anaesthesia that reminds us of the nostalgia of any prospective attempt to realise the future.
No more dystopia shows the Hollywood sign transformed into a new emblem on Mount Lee in Los Angeles. Made during the months of confinement in 2020, this work proposes a reflection on how to imagine better worlds in which to be together again.
UNPLANNED WALK
3rd-7th of May 2022
MADRID, Galería Nueva Barrio de las Letras
Lariot Collective presented "Unplanned Walk" a duo show with Mariett Monfort and Beñat Olaberria.
"Unplanned Walk” explores the way in which both artists approach their creative process. This refers to the act of making art, which is not hidden but instead remains as one of the most important aspects of the completed piece, so that a part or even the whole of its subject is at the end, the making of the work.
The dialogue between both artists invites us to discover the unknown territories of their minds, like in an unplanned walk.
MEDIUM
22 Oct - 24 Oct 2021
Arnold Circus, Shoreditch, London
Lariot Collective presented the first pop-up event in London: “Medium” a group show with works by Andrés Lozano, Mario Antón, Oms Rocha, José Luis Barquero, Nacho Rivera, Giacomo Bevanati, Laura Grinberga and Macarena Rojas.
Medium can refer to both the kind of art, as well as the materials an artwork is made from. The term medium also refers to the liquid in which the pigment is suspended to make paint.
Medium explores diverse approaches to the process of art but also the different ways of communication. “The medium is the message” is a phrase coined by the communication theorist Marshall McLuhan, who proposes that a communication medium itself, not the messages it carries, should be the primary focus of study.
With this group show Lariot Collective investigated the ways of communicate through painting, sculpture and photography with the new voices and talents of the emerging contemporary art scene.
