Timefall
CA2M, Madrid
EDITED by CA2M
LANGUAGE English/Spanish
FORMAT 13 × 20 cm
FEATURES 240 pages, 80 color images, softcover
ISBN 978-3-95476-568-3
RELEASE March 2023
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In his wall hangings, sculptures, and videos, Karlos Gil (b. Talavera, Spain, 1984; lives and works in Madrid) adapts obsolete and contemporary industrial production practices, combining them with filmic elements from the cinema in order to create settings and scenarios for a consideration of possible futures.
In his most recent exhibition Timefall at CA2M Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, his most expansive project to date, the artist addresses the interrelations between the artificial and the natural, between technology and the body, between man and nature, as well as the complexity of urban signifiers. Elements from science fiction sustain a meditation on the fragility of our civilization: apocalyptic landscapes become the stage for a species that has evolved from our environmentally challenged reality. The accompanying catalogue is the first to survey his oeuvre featuring a representative selection of his earlier output and the new works created in connection with the exhibition. With contributions by Peio Aguirre, Jussi Parikka, Bernardo José de Souza, and Laura Tripaldi.
Like Potted Plants in an Office Lobby
GASWORKS, London
EDITED by SubRosa
LANGUAGE English
FORMAT 13 × 20 cm
FEATURES 274 pages, b&w, softcover
ISBN 978-84-606-7883-0
National Book Registry Number: D.L. TO 518-2015
RELEASE September 2015
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“Like Potted Plants in an Office Lobby" is a project by Karlos Gil that explores the "biography of objects," examining how matter is transformed and disguised through linguistic operations. The project also delves into the ergonomic dimensions of art references and the processes by which materials change form and meaning
With contributions by William Gibson, Edmund Husserl, Carlos Fdez-Pello, Stanislaw Lem, Vlad Ionescu, Alfred North Whitehead, Martin Stevens and Sami Merilaita, Nora Baron, Janne Vanhanen, John Sutton, Florence Pike, Benjamin Cheverton and Jules Duboscq and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Belén Zahera Joaquín García, Rowan Geddis, Nancy Cooper, Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, Mira Loew, David Altweger, Rafa Prada, Manuel Angel, Carolina Rito, Quino Monje, The Warburg Institute, London Science Museum, Proyecto Rampa and all the participants.
Timefall
1646, The Hague
EDITED by 1646
LANGUAGE English
FORMAT 13 × 20 cm
FEATURES 24 pages, softcover
RELEASE November 2022
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The domain of gods and monsters; of birth and burial, where extraordinary events come to pass. Dark, dangerous and alienated: caves are places of visions and experiences both sacred and profane. More recently, they have become home to data farms, seed vaults, communication cables and doomsday bunkers.
With his first solo exhibition in The Netherlands titled Timefall, Karlos Gil turned the space of 1646 into a cave detached from the conventions of time. In his tapestries, sculpture and video work, Karlos reappropriates past and present industrial production methods combined with fictional elements in order to craft imagery for possible futures. Through the deep depths of a lost civilization, where apocalyptic landscapes frame the stage for a species that has evolved from our environmentally challenged reality, Timefall invited the viewer to be aware of the power and potential that science fiction and cinema have. An awareness of how these influence our perception of the past and how we imagine the future, for us to take agency over worlds to come.
Flowers, Abyss, Parataxis
La Casa Encendia
EDITED Obra social Caja Madrid
LANGUAGE Spanish & English
FORMAT 20x30 cm
FEATURES Pages: 203, hardcover
RELEASE September 2012
Dep. L.: M-22574-2012
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In 1959, Eduardo J. Prieto described parataxis as the most primitive form of ordering expressive materials, a state of language in which the parts retain their autonomy if they stand on their own two feet. He draws attention to how bringing together originally independent nuclei creates unexpected connections. This is Carlos Fernández-Pello's starting point. These unexpected connections often place us on the edge of the abyss, confronting us with our own experience. Both words and painting transcend disciplines; the former cease to be images, and the latter textures and materials.
Texts: Alessio Antoniolli, Pavia Ascher, AnselmeCalderé, Daniel Cerrejón, Carlos Fernández-Pello, Katia García-Antón and Carolina Grau.