Works of Josep Ginestar and Younes Rahmoun dialogue in Lonja

“Dialogue is the beginning of knowledge as long as it is the primary vehicle through which a stream of meaning flows, whether between authors from the same culture or from different times and places,” says Guillermina Perales, the curator of this exhibition. A new cycle in Lonjaunder the common slogan dialogues. “The artist always tries to express this dialogue in creation, both with references that preceded him and made this time so, and with his contemporaries, with whom he always shares an urgent questioning of reality.” .

A new phase begins with this exhibition. the confrontation between the trajectories of two artists They can be seen as distinct paths that share lines of work and thought, and thus starting from certain interrelated principles in their work, interpretation and creative process.

The art made by an artist is related to the knowledge of his culture, tradition and time. In this dialogue between times, environments and cultures, the enrichment of the artist and the growth of his work take place. A knowledge for the other that arises from curiosity, from questions and answers, from exchange, from putting oneself in the other’s shoes.

In this example, we can observe by both artists, rootedness with the natural landscape and identification with an ancestral culture, With its craftsmanship, original materials and techniques, what is written in this dialogue between man and nature is to create livable spaces or to understand his place in the universe.

With this conceptual basis, each from his own personal interpretation, elements of contemporary art, which takes them beyond a contingent relation to this reality, towards the universal. In his work, we reach the recognition of the basic elements that shape the human being creatively from a contemporary perspective.

Cultural Consultant, Anthony Manresa This exhibition is the starting point of a cycle that started with two internationally important artists, whose works have been exhibited in museums and are at least as important as Turkey. Queen Sofia or at first-level fairs ARROW“.

Artists

younes rahmoun (Tetouan, 1975) and Joseph Ginestar (Gata de Gorgos, Alicante, 1957) the idea of ​​​​journey to the field of the otherThis is nothing but an inner journey where everything is important, historical, geographical, ethnic, social, economic, religious, human, cosmic.

Ginestar’s trip to Morocco or Younes’s trip to Marina Alta creates a link of ideas that take place in different creative processes. Both writers use popular arts, ceramics, hemp, date seeds, plants, rituals and structures in their works, techniques and materials they admire for contemporary art criticism, with the understanding given to them by the language of contemporary art. .

Ginestar recommends Younes Rahmoun, an artist. a deep feeling for their culture and traditionsHe who knows how to interpret the contemporary language is therefore valued in the world’s most important museums and art centers.

Younes embarks on a spiritual journey from his understanding of contemporary art and new technologies, to the popular handicrafts of his country, and, as he presents to us in this exhibition, primarily from his experience of landscapes, from the Rif mountains. , as a space for experimentation and meditation where everything comes together.

In this exhibition wedialogue with landscape, He has produced metaphors such as the tree, which we see breathing from its apparent stillness or passivity, interacting with the environment, giving life, with natural elements that are sometimes very distant in many traditions. And above all, the stone as an essential constructive element of the room or shelter, or as a spiritual identity that connects us through its stillness, smallness and primary material to the movement of the universe.

These essential elements become the protagonists of his installations and videos, as well as his intervention in natural areas, mountains, by handling them in a symbolic way.

Younes Rahmoun introduces us several of his works were exhibited at Reina Sofia. Project emigration, (Arabic word meaning migration or migration) is a performance/action/intervention in which elements of nature and stones from Rif, which he has been conducting since 2010, migrate to other parts of the world. The action he takes on each of his trips around the world. These elements are replaced by an equivalent received at the place of admission, which accompanies you on your return to the starting point, the Rif mountains.

All of these documents are illustrated in the room in a series of different drawings and photographs of stones and plants, with a large mural painted directly on the wall, schematically representing the Rif mountains where each of these migrations ended and partly. The frame that takes us to the meditation area where Lonja is.

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Younes Rahmoun has exhibited in more than 25 different countries Nearly 150 exhibition areas and international events, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Tokyo Palace, National Museum of African Art, MACBA, Reina Sofia Art Center and Venice Biennale. From her training at the Tetouan Institute of Fine Arts, different meetings and collaborations with other artists and teachers such as Faouzi Laatiris or Hassan Echair enrich her studies. As an artist, she took part in the Object Disorienting in Morocco exhibition curated by Jean-Louis Froment at the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris in 1999, where she met curator and researcher Abdellah Karroum. She has been developing business and projects since 2000.

Joseph Ginestar He studied at the School of Applied Arts and Artistic Crafts in Valencia and at the National College of Fine Arts in Paris. A. Vives, Professor in the Experimental Plastics Course. He creates and organizes the international art competition Art al Vent and Grup de Reull at the Gata de Gorgos. His artistic and exhibition career has developed both in his immediate surroundings, in the towns of Marina Alta in the province of Alicante, as well as in the major capitals of Spain and other countries. Participation in fairs such as Interarte and ARCO, by working in major galleries and major institutions. He compared his work in collectives such as: Valencian Artistsbeside Carmen Calvo, Miquel Navarro, Yturralde, or Other Naturebeside Eva LootzPerejaumeSchlosser… Currently Generalitat Valenciana is preparing a retrospective exhibition for the Consortium of Museums.