“A shepherd wants to move a dog, a sheep, and a cabbage across a river. He has a boat where he can only fit himself and one of the other ‘things’. If the dog stays behind with the sheep, it will eat the sheep. If the sheep stays behind with the cabbage, it will eat the cabbage. How should the shepherd proceed?”<\/p>\n
In contrast to writing, the exercise of building images lacks a conceptual and abstract vocabulary, and as a result is powerfully metaphorical. At most, it starts a fortiori<\/em> and in metaphorical terms: “nevertheless, particular metaphors, specifically desired, always bring with them something that is inevitably crude and conventional”. Even so, “the poetic, one millimetre thick bark “, the nuanced metaphor, that which is hardly perceptible, “doesn’t seem possible”. The poetically metaphorical part that really is uproariously possible is always in osmosis with another nature, that of prose, which is strictly communicative.<\/p>\n Divided into three parts, with a video for each part, the sessions will be provisionally presented in the form of readings of texts accompanied by images. In tapes 1 to 3, we will see the key to the construction of an image. The story will progressively place itself through some phrases from statements typical of riddles. These represent the experience of the conquest of reality in a concentrated, almost emblematic manner. Through excess or by default, through superimposition or through a certain lack of coordination between image and text, we intend to highlight the iconic and demonstrative value of images, something that involves a binding and voluntary loss of meaning in favour of language, that is to say, of form.<\/p>\n (The quotes in the second paragraph belong to Pasolini-Rohmer: Cine de poes\u00eda contra cine de prosa.<\/em>)<\/p>\n I\u00f1aki Garmendia<\/strong> (Ordizia, 1972) is an artist living and working in Bilbao. Selected exhibitions include: Materiality<\/em> (Wyspa Art Foundation, Gdansk, Poland, 2012); Gravity & Disgrace II<\/em> (CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, 2011); I\u00f1aki Garmendia \/ 1979. Un Monument a Instants Radicals<\/em> (La Virreina, Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, 2011); Contemporary Image Collective<\/em> (Cairo, 2010); La sombra del habla. Colecci\u00f3n MACBA<\/em> (Fundaci\u00f3 d\u2019Art Contemporani, Barcelona \/ Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul, Seoul, 2010); Art Contemporain et Culture Rock<\/em> (Le Carr\u00e9. Mus\u00e9e Bonnat. Bayonne, 2010); I\u00f1aki Garmendia. Kolpez Kolpe<\/em> (Centre d\u2019Art La Panera, Lleida, 2010); Itinerarios 2007\/08<\/em> (Fundaci\u00f3n Marcelino Bot\u00edn, Santander, 2009); Expanded Box<\/em> (ARCO 09, Madrid, 2009); Inconformisme, incorreci\u00f3 i rebel.li\u00f3 entre art i escena musical<\/em> (Centre d\u2019Art Torre Muntadas, Sala d\u2019Art Josep Bages, El Prat de Llobregat, 2008); Underdox 3. Document und experiment<\/em> (Munich, 2008); NO R.S.<\/em> (Galer\u00eda Mois\u00e9s P\u00e9rez de Alb\u00e9niz, Pamplona, 2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “A shepherd wants to move a dog, a sheep, and a cabbage across a river. He has a boat where he can only fit himself and one of the other ‘things’. If the dog stays behind with the sheep, it will eat the sheep. If the sheep stays behind with the cabbage, it will eat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,101],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n