Opening 30 mayo a las 20 h

Román Lokati

Resident artist in La Pan Stage May 2012

LOS VIAJEROS DE R.L.

Una persona con una maleta es un misterio para quien la ve: “¿Adónde irá?” Unas figuras en el andén de una estación, en la desnudez del espacio en que las sitúa Román Lokati. “¿Adónde irán?” Viajeros pensativos, agolpados y solitarios, extraños entre sí, con undestino -provisional- en común. Con un destino -en abstracto- cabe suponer que tan diferente. Ve uno mucha soledad en estos cuadros de Lokati, nuestro embajador roteño en Londres, en la embajada de las quimeras posibles, embajador de su quimera privada.
Hay mucha soledad, ya digo, en estas figuras, anónimas en la metrópoli, hechas al ir de aquí para allá, desde muy de mañana. Las estaciones son el punto de encuentro de unos desconocidos que jamás se conocerán, que nunca se encontrarán. Personajes hechos de muchas teselas, como los de sus mosaicos. Personajes construidos con piezas muy pequeñas y minuciosas, obligadas a encajar en un todo, como la identidad, como la conciencia. Roman Lokati, con su aspecto de adolescente invulnerable al tiempo, de Peter Pan que sobrevuela el cielo londinense en busca de criaturas a las que dibujar, nos habla en estos cuadros de muchas cosas inconcretas, a la espera de que las interpretemos. Una persona con una maleta se convierte en misteriosa. Una maleta es el detonante de un misterio. Estas obras de Roman Lokati proponen la inmersión en ese misterio.

Felipe Benitez Reyes

 

 

 

Opening Mayo 27 a las 19h

"I want to talk 1956"

Alfred Dong

Video art - instalation

2010; Video Installation
Duration: 15 minutes
Medium: Digital painting, text based and computer generated sound and animation.
Description: This video project integrates an image of Chairman Mao Zedong, who is the first Chair of People’s Republic of China, with his speech to responsible cadres of the National Association of Music Workers and some
other comrades which held in Beijing at 24 August 1956. As the text of Mao’s speech could be translated by the artist into other languages, audiences are able to have living experience through the screen seeing the most important man in China to presents his words of significance in English. Through animation of the still image, the artist investigates in what extend consciousness of human being could be manipulated in a pro human era where a multitude of advanced media and technologies can radically shape and filter an original event or experience.

 

Alfred Dong was born in China. He is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist. Alfred was trained at China, Italy and USA. His works reflect the attitude and philosophy of human life in a global context and peoples’ life are dominating by mainstream culture. With broad interests in various disciplines,
Alfred Dong intend to use the most basic materials as the carrier of art and to generate ideas from the most ordinary behaviors such as speaking, performing and living. The most ordinary objects or behaviors in daily life thus carry powerful meaning to inspire the viewers to reflect on their own lives,
decisions and attitudes which they have faced or will face.

Alfred Dong’s films were screened at China, USA and France. His artworks and performance have exhibited in Bienal de Cerveira in Portugal; WRO Media Art Biennale in Poland; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan; Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, D.C; White Box, New York; Apexart , New York; Arcade Gallery, Chicago; London, Milan, Florence and Athens. Alfred Dong lives and works in China and USA.