"Descendents (better than star watchers. Farewell every minute. Iberner toujours.) Thanks for all." Pepo Salazar.

"Descendents (better than star watchers. Farewell every minute. Iberner toujours.) Thanks for all." (2011)
by Pepo Salazar.

Thursday, May 19th 2011. 9.00 pm
at Polyester
Travesía de San Mateo, 10
Madrid

This sculpture is based on historical avant-gardes, (Dada, Fluxus, constructivism, situationists and Punk), subcultures and politicals actions typical for cultural, social, political and subversive simbolism from the 20th century. Faced up and mixed, their employment nowadays, mainly by power structures shows up (media, trading, politic, civil society...). Its interpretation replies to two different visions: the idea of a fragmentary and misrepresented culture unable to be part of an identity and to generate integral speeches, manipulated from power structures to empty them from any load and tension, appealing the hypothetical "subversion" without causing it. And also to the anti monumental character: a micropolitics system created using symbols that, neither aestethic nor society appreciates as interesting, trying to shed light on the dark zones, external to the interests of an era.


Pepo Salazar (Gasteiz, 1972) accomplish performances, videos, sculptures, graphic works and audo works from the early 90´s. His body of work has been shown at the Venice Biennial, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlín), MUSAC (León), Artium and Sala Rekalde (País Vasco) amongst others. He also works as a curator and directing Espacio BIZIAK in Valencia(www.biziak.com). He lives and works between Valencia and New York. He is represented by Upstream Gallery in Amsterdam.