Jorge Galindo and Santiago Sierra ,2013
Art explosive pointing the king and all the presidents as "managers" of the disaster
■ urban artists Jorge Galindo and Santiago Sierra inaguran in Madrid 'managers', an exhibition "revenge".
■ The centerpiece is a video where large portraits of the king and the six presidents of democracy circulate upside down in a funeral procession of nuance.
■ They are "responsible for representing the interests of the bank, the Pentagon, Rome, landowners ..." and "responsible" for the Spanish disaster.
Ánxel GROVE / Video: Youtube. 16.01.2013 - 09:09 h
The video, which was recorded in August and early-without at parcer, have heard the locals gubernatorial irritable-makers, is now presented as the centerpiece of the exhibition makers, artistic action Jorge Galindo (1965) and Santiago Sierra (1967), two agitators who want to point to the "responsible" for the Spanish extreme situation. The exhibition, which opens on Thursday 17 January at Helga de Alvear gallery in Madrid and will run until March 2, will raise blisters.
The seven characters in the paintings Juan Carlos I, Adolfo Suárez, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Felipe Gonzalez, Jose Maria Aznar, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and Mariano Rajoy, are, as declared by the artists, "responsible for representing the interests of the banking, Pentagon, Rome, landowners, the Army "and run" murderous policies "that began with" the big scam "of the transition and reach our days with the country on the brink of economic and social abyss.
Allies from the eighties, when they formed the duo of graffiti Command Madrid, Sierra Galindo and qualify as an exhibition makers "revenge" and "counter-propaganda" that intends to point out, uncomfortable and respond to power with an art critic and without gag.
Seven black Mercedes Benz traveling at speed funeral procession through the streets of Madrid. Each takes on a huge portrait ceiling upside down. They are black and white pictures, but finished hyperrealistic crude, almost mug shots, King Juan Carlos and the six presidents of Spain since the restoration of democracy. The burial procession walks to the beat of the Soviet Varsoviana, working the song that was adapted as a hymn (To the Barricades) by Spanish anarcho-syndicalists
When brought to the seven characters who star in the show, they know that they are who "show their faces", but that the guilty highs "are their bosses: international and local banks, Rome, the Pentagon, the City of London, Wall Street , Brussels ... ".
The exhibition also includes video, painting and photography.
Sierra presented in parallel, from 22 to 30 January, the performance work is the dictatorship of Spanish conceptual artist Santiago Sierra (Madrid, 1966), on the occasion of the publication of the work is Dictatorship (Ivorypress Gallery), which sonsistirá in the publication of a book that will make 30 workers hired by the minimum wage. Employees hand fill the thousand copies of the edition and again repeating the phrase "Work is the dictatorship".
Santiago Sierra
Arte explosivo que señala al rey y a todos los presidentes como "encargados" del desastre
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1702097/0/exposicion/jorge-galindo-santiago-sierra/los-encargados/