‘SELFIE’ @galeriampa Madrid Through Jan 21 With works by Ela Fidalgo, Gripface, Lujan Perez, Los Bravú, Gala Knörr, Julia Santa Olalla and Carla Fuentes. ‘…The social base between the daily act of instinctively looking at our own reflection in a shop window when walking down the street, to the institutionalization of the selfie as the basis of content creation, from which several million people live today, is the same. And we cannot blame ourselves: in 1890 Oscar Wilde published the Portrait of Dorian Grey, which is still a darker and less naive version of Narcissus, and with this work he puts us in front of the mirror: what place does beauty occupy in our social and power relationships? Jerry Saltz wrote in 2014: “We live in the age of the selfie. A quick self-portrait, taken with a smartphone camera and immediately distributed and embedded on a network, is an instant visual communication of where we are, what we're doing, who we think we are, and who we think is watching us. Selfies have changed aspects of social interaction, body language, self-awareness, privacy, and humor, altering temporality, irony, and public behavior. It has become a new visual genre, a type of self-portrait formally distinct from all others in history. Selfies have their own structural autonomy. This is something very important for art’’. The selfie is a new genre, with its own formal logic, structure, codes and intentionality, which grows and multiplies at such a speed that it can be one of the greatest cultural testimonies of our time today. In this exhibition, we present the work of seven Spanish artists who work around the representation of the human being, the exposure of the public image on the Internet and its interpretation through painting.’ Excerpt from the curator Ester Almeda’s text. #elafidalgo #galaknorr #lujanperez #gripface #losbravú #juliasantaolalla #carlafuentes #painting #selfie #internet #contemporaryart #galeriampa #moisesperezdealbeniz #madrid (en Galeria MPA / Moises Perez de Albeniz) https://www.instagram.com/p/CleGeRkInXP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
