PERRO
Tallin(Estonia) – 2019 March
Technical Sheet

-Date:
2019 March
-Location:
Hobusepea Gallery in Tallin (Estonia)
-Artists:
Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet (“Data Shop”, “Money Cascade”), Vicente Vázquez & Usue Arrieta (“The Age of Fiction”, “As near as zero as one pleases”), Néstor Lizalde (“PII”), Félix Luque & Íñigo Bilbao (“Memory Lane”), Javi Álvarez (“El Mundo un Molde”), OPN Studio (“Tracker”), Jaime de los Ríos (“wPortraits”) and Fermín Serrano (“It is not enough”)
-Sponsorships:
Mecenas, Almigor, Junta de Arte
For a start no one has illnesses on internet, one is not tired, and most probably you have a magnificent aspect and with a little imagination you can be very rich, life in internet allows you to be what you always wanted and in real life you are not. Therefore, we fabricate the ideal projections of ourselves with the safeguard that if something goes wrong; we can always die to start over again.

The activist, the net.artist, the tax evader, the pornography addict, paramilitary groups, islamists, the neo-Nazi, the CIA, the real estate developer, the Vatican, students, immigrants or Minsters, all of us have the possibility of establishing bonds that would not be possible in our physical world and that need constant rereading. If instead of generating coexistence we just share a dry and barren space we would be projecting, or drawing if you like, a convenient space or “self-on-internet”, for a third space where crimes are not purged, everything has a previously known end, and which of course is so false as the made to measure suit we are wearing in front of others. A “self” marked by the view on a postcard which is always spring, mountains with a snowy peak, green fields and where people have a standard white-american appearance.
The artists appearing in this project are under 35 years, and in the opinion of the curator they stand out not only for their very personal artistic style and aesthetic consistency, but also for having managed to maintain a balanced capacity even humanistic analysis and when the ground beneath their feet has not stopped shaking during the last decade.
Our unknown is squared virtue of the work entitled “Nighthawks” of the US artist Hopper, which portrays a coffee shop set on a dark street. With large windows, lit from the inside with electricity. Inside I can see a well-dressed couple staring. Another man is sitting on the bar turning his back to me and neither does an apparent gesture of willing to communicate with anyone, and finally there is a waiter who looks at the dark outside to the street, thinking, perhaps, will remain a few hours of work at that hole.

PERRO is an exhibition proposal curated of Spanish artists that reflect the identities in the internet. Curated by Javier Galán, it had its first presentation and display at the Hobusepea Gallery in Tallin (Estonia) and it presents a collection of artworks from the following artists:
Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet (“Data Shop”, “Money Cascade”), Vicente Vázquez & Usue Arrieta (“The Age of Fiction”, “As near as zero as one pleases”), Néstor Lizalde (“PII”), Félix Luque & Íñigo Bilbao (“Memory Lane”), Javi Álvarez (“El Mundo un Molde”), OPN Studio (“Tracker”), Jaime de los Ríos (“wPortraits”) and Fermín Serrano (“It is not enough”)
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