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SLEEPWALKING / SOMNAMBULISME
Daniel Horowitz
curated by Alejandro Martin
The paintings created for the exhibition drift through space, either camou-flaged in a large mural or integrated into a recreated living room from a by-gone era. Daniel Horowitz’s creative process is achieved by the repurposing and recontextualization of images derived from expired publications inter-laced with the subconscious. His paintings, collages, installations and video animations result in a surreal world altering the initial nature and symbolism of the various images on view, allowing the viewer to respond subjectively.
Barcelona, Spain 2015
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Al comienzo de America, Baudrillard relaciona la nostalgia con paisajes muy concretos de la geografía estadounidense. Si los paisajes producen nostalgia no es tanto por su configuración estética sino por su significación simbólica dentro de nuestra cultura. También por la sustancia irrecuperable de las experiencias que tuvimos en ellos o por el carácter irrealizable de aquellas que nunca tuvimos y nos hubiese gustado o nos gustaría vivir. A día de hoy, pensar en una exposición como en un paisaje es perpetrar un crimen. La afectación y la obsolescencia de cierta com-paraciones, las deja rápidamente fuera de lugar. Pasan a formar parte de archivos que nadie quiere desempolvar.
La obra de arte es nostálgica per se. En su “vivir hacia delante”, transporta el mo-mento caduco de su origen. Esto no significa que todas la obras de arte trabajen conscientemente con el pasado. Existen gracias a él, a veces posicionándose a la contra. Si la contemporaneidad del arte se define en relación a un régimen estético propio de su tiempo, la pintura parece existir en un permanente estado de crisis bajo la acusación de no ser suficientemente contemporánea. Pero si tenemos en cuenta que uno de los aspectos que definen nuestro presente es una profunda carga nostál-gica, entonces la pintura parece más adecuada que nunca. Y no tanto porque el me-dio sea nostálgico, sino porque nuestra experiencia del mismo lo es. Como también lo es nuestra apología del subconsciente, un proceso mental que aparentemente siempre estuvo ahí pero cuyo descubrimiento y apogeo pertenece a otra época.
De la misma manera podríamos afirmar que todo objeto que sobrevive a su tiempo, aún sin las pretensiones de futuro de la obra de arte, es nostálgico. Más aún si esos objetos no pertenecen a la época de quien los contempla y son pueden mover con ellos a un espectador que es capaz de imaginar y no tanto de recordar. La habitación que propone Living Room es un espacio que existe intermitentemente como obra pero que no ha existido antes, como habitación. En un primer momento, es un es-pacio que existe como recuerdo de otros espacios que sí podrían haber existido. Sin embargo, las imágenes que lo construyen no son partes decorativas orientadas a reforzar un anacronismo. Al contrario, son elementos estratégicos que desvelan la tarea de prestidigitación de aquel que intenta reconstruir una época dentro de otra. Son imágenes que no pretender ser lo que alguna vez fueron sino el punto de partida para visualizar una posible representación del subconsciente.
Hay una fuerte carga de frustración en el acto de contemplar porque implica una situación en la que siempre estamos afuera, en una posición de externalidad con respecto a lo que contemplamos. Será por ello que cuando contemplamos un paisaje por primera vez, no podemos evitar inventar recuerdos dentro de él y convertirlo en algo nostálgico. Esta experiencia del paisaje podría aplicarse a Sleepwalking. Movi-dos por un deseo de pertenencia, somos capaces de experimentar un pasado, una situación, un tiempo, un objetos o una imagen que nunca hemos vivido. De movernos como sonámbulos dentro de sueños que pertenecen a otros.
Sonia Fernández PanArt Critic and CuratorBarcelona, Spain
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метаморфоза 27 mixed media on paper
20 x 36 cm
метаморфоза 47
mixed media on paper
20 x36 cm
HorseplayOil and enamel on canvas260 x 195 cm
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Midnight CowboyOil and enamel on canvas130 x 195 cm
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Restless Brain and Weary FeetMural
12 x 40 m
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DreamweaverOil and enamel on canvas
146 x 100 cm
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A Pensive Lamia in Some Wood-retreat Oil and enamel on canvas
90 x 117 cm
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Dreaming of LacanOil and enamel on canvas90 x 117 cm
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Lonesome Massiah Oil and enamel on canvas
130 x 195 cm
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La RueOil and enamel on canvas130 x 195 cm
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Living RoomFramed artwork, furniture, taxidermy, television, animation2.5 x 40 sq m
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Imagenesmixed media on paper
40 x 45 cm
Vision Minglingmixed media on paper42 x 48 cm
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метаморфоза 79, 95, 96mixed media on paper43 x 33 cm
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HorseplayOil and enamel on canvas
260 x 195 cm
Midnight CowboyOil and enamel on canvas
130 x 195 cm
A Pensive Lamia in some wood-retreat Oil and enamel on canvas
90 x 117 cm
DreamweaverOil and enamel on canvas
146 x 100
Dreaming of LacanOil and enamel on canvas
90 x 117 cm
Lonesome MessiahOil and enamel on canvas
130 x 195 cm
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La RueOil and enamel on canvas
130 x 195 cm
Imagenesmixed media
40 x 45 cm
Vision Minglingmixed media
42 x 48 cm
Le Chien Catalanmixed media
40 x 45 cm
метаморфоза 60mixed media
56 x 78
метаморфоза 29mixed media
43 x 33 cm
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метаморфоза 96mixed media
43 x 33 cm
метаморфоза 32mixed media
33 x 43 cm
метаморфоза 42mixed media
33 x 45 cm
метаморфоза 87mixed media
31 x 48 cm
метаморфоза 79mixed media
40 x 40 cm
метаморфоза 95mixed media
43 x 33
CaballoAnimation