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II The Fourth Festival of Video Art Sympathetic is dedicated almost exclusively to the selection of videos shown at the Sixth Exhibition of Contemporary Art Arevalo (held in 2010), organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the town of Avila, which, although modest, is now emerging as the only annual contemporary art fair which can be viewed in the Castile and Leon.
Among the works collected there are various themes and different ways of dealing with the act of creating moving images, though, dominates the video and document ephemeral actions.
For the work of Arturo Ledesma , the image is unedited, raw, almost as much as the theme of their performances. In them it is customary to use your own body as a support and multiple receiver grievances as a means to express the irrational in the modern world. Following the breach created by Chris Burden, in 1971, when he was shot in a performance voluntarily, Arturo Ledesma in videoacción "Ego sum lux mundi II" (I am the Light of the World II) which is exposed to sew the eyelids, something attached to your clothing, similar to that of the Ku Klux Klan, refers to the blindness that produce ideologies when carried to extremes.
the same artist, but this time with the performer and sculptor also Maria Jose Tobal , is shown a video of the performance by both the opening of the sixth edition of the Contemporary Art Fair Arévalo. Again this is raw footage, which show the artists dressed as if they were nineteenth-century character, he sat in a chair in a certain presence, her feet and back. Begins to play music and, as it goes in crescendo , the artist began to kiss his head shaved, marked by red lipstick.
Another artistic partnership formed in this case Michiko Totoki and Juan Vidal also rescued an action in which blend in equal parts performance and land art. The artist from Japan also uses his own body as an artistic medium and makes it interact with the space and the natural environment, becoming a bridge of organic and ephemeral.
Following the share register through the video, in the work of Pilar Alvarez, "First song" you can see the author's own twelve times while thanks to technology splitscreen (split screen), playing with the battery the same song in different trials. This time, it is remarkable that the movie was released, which together with the effects used and the musical theme, which refers to the development of music, country is and has been fertile for experimentation as exemplified by the authors audiovisual Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry. The influence is palpable in the video work of Andy Warhol, as both share a taste for voyeurism.
For his part, Castro Belin format uses video to document the dismantling of one of his works in a group exhibition in 2002 at the church of San Millan de Medina de Pomar, Burgos, which shows, in the words of the artist as "a metaphor about my personal life in the sense of anticipation and planning their lives and over time end up falling apart. "
Finally, the work of three video artists whose pieces denote a remarkable degree of technical refinement and improved use of resources offered by technology.
Maria Castellanos in "Memoria_" plays with a kind of meta, as it uses moving images to speak of languages \u200b\u200bsuch as photography (and by extension the video itself) that serve to capture and store audio-visual information and graphic approximately the same functions as memory is in the human body. The same artist also presents "Transit", which also uses the splitscreen , although in this case are numerous, not just the images (of different footage of accidents that can be found in urban soil as sewers and drains) but also background sounds of different video sequences.
Vicent Gisbert also involved with two works, with many points in common. For starters, both have resorted to black and white aesthetic, and we can say that, although in principle these works have a more traditional narrative structure than most other videos, also causes a feeling of ambiguity and uneasiness. The first story "AU", shows a male character who rises from the bed, gets dressed and makes what appears to be their daily lives, which are none other than up to the roof of the building where he lives and begin a dance , perhaps it may seem more characteristic of a shamanistic ritual in the bowels of the jungle of our world. The other piece, "Against", puts us in a lot filled with stone and sand, near the sea assume the appearance of a lighthouse, on which dance the same dancer-like movements (thanks to the credit discover that it is the artist himself).
Finally, Sergio Sotomayor works with only two pieces of the shows made exclusively by means of digital animation, which does not prevent you from getting a realistic, especially the piece entitled "Wood." In it, the artist takes us into an artificial construction of wood, like a country house with large halls and large, every step we met some enigmatic tentacles or snakes of similar texture to walls and ceilings that do not move, but that haunt us every time. The audio portion is formed by the sounds of saws cutting wood and sanding work, which emphasizes the feeling of oppression. The video "Quantum" is a composition that stands out for its delicacy, showing a female figure all white, looking like a mannequin come to life and makes sinuous movements in slow motion and, at intervals, is literally cut by the projection plane , appearing and disappearing from it.
the Festival can also enjoy the works of other artists who have participated in the fair in previous years, as Guillermo Menéndez de Llano or Nacho Ramirez or not, Omar A. Bosco Jerez.
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