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Espacio para el recuerdo, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 60 x 20 x 36 cm. Unique edition.

Tomando notas, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 24 x 45 x 75 cm. Unique edition.

Pasillo azul, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 59'5 x 35 x 17 cm. Unique edition.

Caballo, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 22'5 x 44 x 76'5 cm. Unique edition.

Esperando, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 55 x 36 x 18 cm. Unique edition.

Terminal, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 50 x 33 x 19 cm. Unique edition.

Laberinto-ciudad 2001, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 46 x 30 x 12'5 cm. Unique edition.

El mundo en la puerta, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 47 x 28'5 x 17 cm. Unique edition.

Desde el aire hacia Berlín, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 54'5 x 32 x 15 cm. Unique edition.

Tres asientos de colores, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 55 x 31 x 16 cm. Unique edition.

Egipto en el horizonte, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 37 x 50 x 18 cm. Unique edition.

Saliendo hacia las nubes, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 75 x 43 x 20 cm. Unique edition.

Nubes en la costa, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 70 x 41 x 19 cm. Unique edition.

Atardecer, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 15 x 64 x 35'5 cm. Unique edition.

En el tren, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 55 x 17 x 34 cm. Unique edition.

Cureva con nieve, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 80 x 43 x 23 cm. Unique edition.

Viaje en el tiempo, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 40 x 65 x 20 cm. Unique edition.

Nubes en los Alpes, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 61 x 41 x 19 cm. Unique edition.

Mi sombra por el aire, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 41 x 61 x 18 cm. Unique edition.

El mar sobre la costa de Santander, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 65'5 x 38 x 18 cm. Unique edition.

Diálogo en la distancia, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 29 x 43 x 75 cm. Unique edition.

Aves en el canal de Kreuzberg, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 76 x 45 x 23 cm. Unique edition.

Dirección al mar, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 65 x 37 x 20 cm. Unique edition.

Metrópolis Barcelona II, 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 70 x 20 x 20 cm. Unique edition.

Al otro lado (diptych), 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 44 x 20 x 74 cm. and 45 x 20 x 70 cm. Unique edition.

Después del beso (diptych), 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 80 x 43 x 24 cm. and 80 x 22 x 44 cm. Unique edition.

En medio del bosque (diptych), 2001. Suitcase with light system, mirror and duratrans photography. 40 x 20 x 75 cm. y 44 x 22 x 80 cm. Unique edition.

Un sueño de ciudad (Madrid) I, 2001. Colour C-Print. 120 x 180 cm. Edition of 3.

Un sueño de ciudad (Madrid) II, 2001. Colour C-Print. 120 x 180 cm. Edition of 3.

Blanca, 2001. Video projection and trunk. 4' loop (video) and 57 x 84 x 78 (trunk). Edition of 3.

Espacio de reflejo I, 2001. Iron structures with spy mirror, photography and light bulb. 240 x 120 x 120 cm. Unique edition.

Chema Alvargonzález
Consigna
January 25 - March 17, 2001

At the Gallery Oliva Arauna in Madrid, from the 25th of January, 2001, Chema Alvargonzález presents the exhibition Consignas.

In the exhibition, which shows the latest work of Chema Alvargonzález, a space is created in which the images are combined through reflections, transparencies and projected images. These elements are unified in space by a common sound element.

The pieces are a reference to our relation between the interior and the exterior, to the relation between our experience and the shadows created by memory. In Consignas, Alvargonzález recreates the notion of waiting, creating a stage for it. It is in the left-luggage offices at the big stations and airports where objects lethargically await to start their journeys. Alvargonzález uses these places of transit to reflect upon the ideas of travelling and waiting, as he converts the gallery into a left-luggage office where memories are stored.

A central structure in the entrance of the gallery contains two photographic images combined with a mirror that allows us to see through it.

At the back of the gallery, a projection is emitted from a suitcase like a metaphor of our own escape towards outer experience.

In the gallery’s office (the actual cloakroom of the gallery) one can contemplate the images that are contained in the suitcases displayed as light boxes, that reference the journeys, memories and souvenirs as part of the artistic experience. Alvargonzález’s way of working, by collecting images over the daily course of life, means that the result we are left with is the voice of his memory.

The exhibition also presents two new large format photographs from the series Un sueño de ciudad, shown last December in Castellón, in which images of a metropolis are mixed with clouds as if in a dream. The architectural spaces that rest upon the clouds form a bridge between the physical and the unreal because they don’t just uniquely represent the real concurrence of forms but also, and above all, the forms of his memory. They are images that sum up the collective memory and reflect its way of living and all of its dreams. On this occasion it is the urban landscape of Madrid that is discovered immersed amongst the clouds. 

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