artist from Alicante louis shepherd join this year Bogota International Contemporary Art FairBringing together ARTBO 2022 More than 300 creators Fifty galleries by 30 October. The priest participates in the main part of this fair, represented by Galician, one of the three invited Spanish galleries. Scandinavianwho he has worked with for years. “I am really happy to present this here. New collection of pieces made of 24 carat gold (23 ¾k)where I worked on the economic concept of surplus value,” says the Alicante woman, often convert approaches to economics and capitalism through art.
Two of the major works are part of the project Plus value: Tripartite (a) adorationproduced Receiving one of the grants from the Alicante Department of Culture As part of the call for public subsidies for cultural projects in 2022, 7,449 euros.
Remove the notebooks
The priest who uses it as the main material of his work old accounting booksfalling leaves, transforming and working like a jeweler, add gold usage to this project in the form of floating layers (gold leaf) on boxes made of paper – each piece contains 3,500 of these boxes– and the artist points out that besides the windows, paper, boxes and oak wood “it’s not the most expensive part of the production”. He had already used this element in last year’s exhibition at the Gil-Albert Institute, which he curated. Pilar Tebar.
The artist from Alicante is interested in economics and economic concepts. Reveals a reflection on the importance of “capital” in a globalizing world playing with material like this is “gold, not coins, around which the entire market revolves”.
“I’m interested shred The economy dictated by the General Accounting Plan, which every entrepreneur must meticulously arrange in these books, break the economic logic and turn it into something plastic talkspeaks of the disrespect of breaking something unbreakable poetically”.
Head of Culture Department, Anthony ManresaHe points out that Pastor’s project is an example of his commitment to promoting the creation and promotion of the works of Alicante artists, which will be exhibited in one of the city halls in Alicante after international fair tours.