A choice of new works by artist Nicolás Romero Escalada (beforehand featured here). Born in Buenos Aires and at the moment primarily based in Madrid, Romero’s newest exhibition represents the top of a sequence that emerged from months of confinement through the pandemic. Caught in an artist residency in Barcelona, Romero drew on reminiscences to create a report of his personal consumption. Rewriting the current in an effort to connect with a overseas setting, the gathering hints towards a not-so-distant future that parallels the human and environmental challenges of our personal world:
“The gundams are an train of fusion of two occasions. The primary one has to do with my childhood in Argentina the place anime and comics represented my transition between childhood and maturity. However additionally they present the context of the 90’s in Argentina with a globalized, privatized and imported economic system the place the objects I consumed got here from all around the world. The development of my id grew to a sure extent, in parallel with the beginnings of the worldwide shopper tradition…. I retake that childhood expertise to signify my migration from Argentina to Spain. These contemplations are a approach of seeing and recording the brand new world round me…. I invite the viewer to mirror on the connection between previous and current, id and migration, in addition to resistance and transformation in an infinitely globalized world.”
See extra photos from “The Final Gundam” beneath or on show at Ting Ting Art Space in Taipei till September twenty ninth.
