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artists & participants
Alberto Baraya,
Guillem Bayo,
Ingrid Buchwald,
Carlos Bunga,
Björn Dahlem,
Guillermo Faivovich,
Karlos Gil,
Nicolas Goldberg,
Cao Guimaraes,
Joao Maria Gusmao,
Joao Maria Gusmao & Pedro Paiva,
Ilana Halperin,
Kiluanji Kia Henda,
Milton Marques,
Arash Moori,
Rivane Neuenschwander,
O Grivo,
Pedro Paiva,
Jorge Peris,
Paloma Polo,
Ruben Ramos Balsa,
Ariel Schlesinger,
Conrad Shawcross,
Alberto Tadiello,
Jan Tichy,
Ben Woodeson,
Raphael Zarka
press release
Experimental Station is an exhibition that explores the crossroads and overlaps of art and science, finding connections between the implausible or, at the very least, the improbable.
The exhibition features the work of 29 artists whose artistic practices share a fair number of motivations, quests and impossible horizons with scientific research. Formal research, pseudo-science, science fiction and paranormal phenomena are the experimental domains in which they are focused and through which they materialize their work.
Both artistic and scientific devices lead us to places of change and discovery, whether it is with a real or imaginary purpose. We are referring to creation as a location for experimentation, and in this respect, science and art partake of a common aspiration: to conduct researches that question our current knowledge, to look for a new frontier.
Science and art are also connected by keen interests. Ethics and aesthetics are concepts that invite both the artist and the scientist to think and reflect. Scientists work in a brilliant space of observation, supported by knowledge and thorough procedures, in order to get and gather data; artists get in this restricted area through a parallel entrance. Throughout history, a large amount of ideas investigated has led to breakthroughs but also to impasses: Utopias and failures, a commonplace of art and science.
There is a long way between formulas, experiments and results, and many possibilities in the process of trial and error. Chance and probability are two accurate words to describe what happens during this quest, whether systematically or erratically.
As John Cage stated: "Art is a sort of experimental station."
On the occasion of the exhibition, a bilingual catalogue (English-Spanish) will be published including an essay by Pablo Martín Pascual.
only in german
Experimental Station.
Research and Artistic Phenomena
Kuratoren: Andres Mengs, Virginia Torrente
Künstler: Julio Adan, Guillem Bayo, Alberto Baraya, Luis Bisbe, Ingrid Buchwald, Carlos Bunga, Caleb Charland, David Clarkson, Björn Dahlem, Karlos Gil, Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolas Goldberg, O Grivo, Joao Maria Gusmao, Pedro Paiva, Lyn Hagan, Ilana Halperin, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Esther Manas / Arash Moori, Milton Marques, Alistair McClymont, Rivane Neuenschwander / Cao Guimaraes, Jorge Peris, Paloma Polo, Ruben Ramos Balsa, Conrad Shawcross, Ariel Schlesinger, Alberto Tadiello, Jan Tichy, Ben Woodeson, Raphael Zarka.