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.
The Intervals
MACBA. Centre d'Estudis i Documentació
2015
27 x 18.2 cm
ISBN: 978849900332
Language: CASTELLANO
Materia: Monografías
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This exhibition proposes a reconsideration of concepts about temporality and the relationship between the present and memory, or the idea of the past. The artist starts from the idea that reality has come to be translated by art through signs, to be presented as just another sign. The possibility of remembering and reconstructing a specific and particular past enables us to construct a future based on what we already know will happen. To this end, he generates a conceptual framework to question the idea of time. The different objects and images that comprise the installation (a piece of furniture designed by Ernö Goldfinger, which he later gave to André Breton; a vase made up of four parts referencing different historical models; and a poster based on the scientific journal in which Stephen Hawking denied the possibility of time travel) function as temporal threads, posing a game of possible surreal combinations to approach an understanding of the work.
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, Anselme Calderé, Daniel Cerrejón, Carlos Fernández-Pello, Katia García-Antón and Carolina Grau.
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.
Colección Fundación ARCO
FUNDACION ARCO
2019
339 pages
Formato: Rústica
ISBN: 978-84-451-3505-1
Language: CASTELLANO, ENGLISH
Materia: Monografías
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The CA2M houses the Community of Madrid's Contemporary Art Collection, built in the early 1980s through the acquisition of funds dependent on the exhibition programs of its galleries. Since 2013, it has also been enriched by the deposit of the ARCO Foundation Collection, which annually incorporates important pieces featured at Madrid's leading contemporary art fair. Both collections, totaling nearly 2,000 works, complement each other's narratives: ARCO's more international collection contextualizes the views of the CA2M Collection, which is more focused on the Madrid and Spanish art scene. Its intermittent presence at the center is reflected through temporary exhibitions that give it meaning and connect it with international trends. These exhibitions allow for its study and production of knowledge, as well as for experimenting with and questioning the museum's languages and formats. This also allows for capsules inserted into different circulation spaces throughout the museum, thus continually renewing our understanding of its holdings.
III Moscow International Biennale for Art
Moscow International Biennale
Published by: Moscow National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA), New Art Foundation
550 pages
Soft cover
Language: English, Russian
2012
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Under A Tinsel Sun is the title of the III Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation; the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow; the National Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow; and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA); in collaboration with Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.). Its chief curator is Kathrin Becker.
Along with the Main project the Biennale includes the Strategic project, curated by Elena Selina, a range of artists’ fanzines, selected by Viktor Neumann, as well the Special program of curatorial projects, and an extensive Parallel program at various locations in Moscow. For the first time, the Biennale features an Educational program including workshops with international artists, panel discussions, lectures, and screenings. The Biennale is accompanied by a comprehensive bilingual publication.
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.
NEO GEO
Francisco Fino, Lisbon
EDITED by SubRosa
LANGUAGE English
FORMAT 13 × 20 cm
FEATURES 36 pages, b&w, softcover
Illustrations: Oliver Sigmarsson
RELEASE March 2025
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In his latest project, Karlos Gil has visited the place where the Eurasian and American plates collide in Akureyri (Iceland) to visit several hydrothermal volcanoes, vestiges of the origin of microcellular life and recently the destination of organizations such as NASA to study their composition and connections with the origin of life. Deep in Iceland, where daylight never reaches, these abyssal volcanoes emit steam in a landscape hidden from human perception. They are thresholds to the abyss, zones of geological transformation that challenge the relationship between the solid and the ethereal. Karlos has worked with a group of experienced divers in the depths of the Eyjafjörður fjord to represent the activity of these deep-sea volcanoes from within.
Special Thanks to: Lyly Tiborsdottir, Katrina Anoniusardottir, Arni Gautason, Strytan Divecenter, 66º North, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Gaston Annesarson, Oktovius Jarfason, Teresa Funadottir, Vincenzo Germano, Ben Frost and Francisco Fino.
SuperSuperLike
CONDE DUQUE
2021
210 pages
Digital
Language: CASTELLANO, ENGLISH
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Swipe, swipe, swipe… In just a few years, our user experience has gone from a multimedia sphere designed with naive algorithms to a constant connectivity with interfaces designed to govern our productivity. Interactions have abandoned their attentive drift and mutated into frenetic gestures, stressed by a thumb that mimics the movement of a scroll. This universe, transformed into a "metaverse," is already a normative place, where our emotions are organized into coded labels and our avatar tells us who to love and who to hate.
David Ferrando Giraut, Françoise Gamma, Cristina Garrido, Marian Garrido, Karlos Gil, Marina González Guerrero, Rubén Grilo, Roc Herms, emilio.jp, Joan Leandre, Almudena Lobera, Solimán López Fran Meana, Raquel Meyers , Clara Montoya, Amanda Moreno Momu & No Es, Yosi Negrín Carlos Sáez, Mario Santamaría Cristina Spinelli
Flowers, Abyss, Parataxis
FUNDACIO "LA CAIXA"
2022
112 pages Formato: Rústica
ISBN: 9788499003207
Idioma: CASTELLANO
Materia: Monografías
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Landscape is an artistic invention that has shaped our perception of nature and our capacity for emotion in the face of natural phenomena. The exhibition's foundation is a selection of landscape works from the ”la Caixa” Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, whose vision of the landscape is expanded with loans from artists and collections at various institutions.The title, "Horizon and Limit," seeks to emphasize the way we perceive the land. Faced with the immensity of the world, human beings can only learn about it by framing their gaze and representing what is ultimately an illusion.
Tacita Dean, Hamish Fulton, Andreas Gursky, Dionís Escorsa, Joan Fontcuberta, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Michael Najjar, Rémy Zaugg, Karlos Gil, Anne Imhof, Cristina Lucas, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Miquel Barceló, Cristina Lucas, Patricia Dauder, Julius von Bismarck, Thomas Demand.
Generación 2015
La Casa Encendida,
2015
ISBN: 978-84-606-5602-9
165 x 230 mm.
Págs: 100
Language: Castellano /Inglés
Encuadernación: Rústica
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It's not easy to find a common denominator among these artists, whose multiplicity of practices is as varied as the current art scene is rich. As in previous editions, many of them have completed studies or residencies in other countries and continue to travel, incorporating these experiences into their creative process as a way of discovering new paths. Most of them present the results of these journeys, sometimes imagined, in the form of installations, videos, photographs, postcards, drawings, or sculptures. It could be said that this way of being in the world from one place to another, ignoring borders and breaking them, is representative of a generation that, more than ever, is assimilating the globalized world while simultaneously trying to find its own voice.
Elena Aitzkoa, Cristina Garrido, Karlos Gil, Nadia y Laila Hotait, Daniel Jacoby, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Karlos Martínez B., Lucía Simón, Pep Vidal González y Oriol Vilanova
Proyective Ornament
GARCíA GALERÍA
2018
94 pages
ISBN: 9788493603207
Idioma: ENGLISH
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Projective Ornament is a project by Karlos Gil that takes its name from the namesake book written in 1915 by the American architect and theosophist Claude Bragdon, in which the author creates a system for drawing three-dimensional ornament on a two-dimensional plane. Bragdon believed that the ornament provides a critical opportunity for meaningful expression, creating a universal form-language to replace the variety of historical styles.
The show features works by Nora Barón, Eva Fábregas, Claude Fayette Bragdon, Carlos Fernández-Pello, Karlos Gil, The Infinite Library (Daniel Gustav Cramer & Haris Epaminonda), Enrico Piras & Alessandro Sau & Salvatore Moro, paraSITE, André Romao, Víctor Santamarina and Belén Zahera.