"Booth DS20"
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Francesc Ruiz
Artissima 2018
OVAL Lingotto Fiere via Giacomo Mattè Trucco 70 – Torino – ItaliaT. +39 011 197 441 06 F +39 011 197 46106 e-mail:
GARCÍA GALERÍA
Doctor Fourquet 8 28012 Madrid España
Tel: +34 915 275 567 Fax: +34 915 275 567 e-mail:
1 > 4 November, 2018
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Booth DS20
“The collapse of the phallocentric system implies the collapse of the capitalist system. The revolutionary working class and the revolutionary women’s movement are two sides of the Communist Party -a human community whose ass is the gay movement.”
Mario Mieli. Homosexuality and Liberation: Elements of a Gay Critique
garcía | galleria is pleased to present a project by Francesc Ruiz, FIORI!, a continuation of his line of research articulated around LGTB-themed comics and drawings. Ruiz has been studying their use as cultural material within the field of contemporary art, calling for their recuperation and that of its unwritten history. Furthermore, he applies subversive strategies derived from this medium, looking for a way to influence reality.
FIORI! picks up on the Gay Flowers comics published by lesbian activist Stefania Sala in the 70s in a magazine run by FUORI! (United Italian Revolutionary Homosexual Front.). These were used to spread, using humour, some of the ideas that were being generated at the time around the subject of gay liberation. Ruiz reintroduces the original comic strip and rhythmically repeats it along the paper, almost as if it were a musical variation, altering or replacing the texts contained in it with quotes by the Italian philosopher Mario Mieli (Milan, 1952-1983), mainly taken from his foundational book Elementi de Critica Omosessuale (Homosexuality and Liberation: Elements of a Gay Critique).
As a founding member of FUORI! and a fundamental theorist of LGTB themes of the time, Mieli’s revolutionary thinking impregnates all the drawings. Here he allies with Sala drawings that work as an amplifier loudspeaker of his revolutionary knowledge, his support of transexuality and gay communism.
Ruiz gives the drawings a new validity, retrieving them, vindicating both the artist and the philosopher and re introducing them back to the contemporary spaces, critics and cultural studies. The installation completes with a wall frieze made up of large vinyl reproductions of the “gay flowers“, where the sexual content has been highlighted, celebrating it as in a minimalist garden of delights.
Francesc Ruiz (Barcelona, 1971). His work takes drawing as a starting point, and comic books as a fundamental reference for the development of a complex and suggestive oeuvre. His preoccupations cover popular culture, as well as social and political movements, through a body of work that uses appropriation in order to systematically question the power of narrative. He has presented solo exhibitions at FRAC PACA, PILOT (Oslo), IVAM (Valencia), Gasworks (London), MNCARS (Madrid), or the Miró Foundation (Barcelona), and has taken part in group shows at the Goteborg Biennial (Sweden), Biennale di Venezia, MACBA (Barcelona), Weserburg Museum (Bremen), CA2M (Madrid), New Museum (New York), Carrè d’Art (Nimes), and MUSAC (León).
“The collapse of the phallocentric system implies the collapse of the capitalist system. The revolutionary working class and the revolutionary women’s movement are two sides of the Communist Party -a human community whose ass is the gay movement.”
Mario Mieli. Homosexuality and Liberation: Elements of a Gay Critique
garcía | galleria is pleased to present a project by Francesc Ruiz, FIORI!, a continuation of his line of research articulated around LGTB-themed comics and drawings. Ruiz has been studying their use as cultural material within the field of contemporary art, calling for their recuperation and that of its unwritten history. Furthermore, he applies subversive strategies derived from this medium, looking for a way to influence reality.
FIORI! picks up on the Gay Flowers comics published by lesbian activist Stefania Sala in the 70s in a magazine run by FUORI! (United Italian Revolutionary Homosexual Front.). These were used to spread, using humour, some of the ideas that were being generated at the time around the subject of gay liberation. Ruiz reintroduces the original comic strip and rhythmically repeats it along the paper, almost as if it were a musical variation, altering or replacing the texts contained in it with quotes by the Italian philosopher Mario Mieli (Milan, 1952-1983), mainly taken from his foundational book Elementi de Critica Omosessuale (Homosexuality and Liberation: Elements of a Gay Critique).
As a founding member of FUORI! and a fundamental theorist of LGTB themes of the time, Mieli’s revolutionary thinking impregnates all the drawings. Here he allies with Sala drawings that work as an amplifier loudspeaker of his revolutionary knowledge, his support of transexuality and gay communism.
Ruiz gives the drawings a new validity, retrieving them, vindicating both the artist and the philosopher and re introducing them back to the contemporary spaces, critics and cultural studies. The installation completes with a wall frieze made up of large vinyl reproductions of the “gay flowers“, where the sexual content has been highlighted, celebrating it as in a minimalist garden of delights.
Francesc Ruiz (Barcelona, 1971). His work takes drawing as a starting point, and comic books as a fundamental reference for the development of a complex and suggestive oeuvre. His preoccupations cover popular culture, as well as social and political movements, through a body of work that uses appropriation in order to systematically question the power of narrative. He has presented solo exhibitions at FRAC PACA, PILOT (Oslo), IVAM (Valencia), Gasworks (London), MNCARS (Madrid), or the Miró Foundation (Barcelona), and has taken part in group shows at the Goteborg Biennial (Sweden), Biennale di Venezia, MACBA (Barcelona), Weserburg Museum (Bremen), CA2M (Madrid), New Museum (New York), Carrè d’Art (Nimes), and MUSAC (León).
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preview and vernissage :
Vernissage (upon invitation): 1 November
open to the public :
12 – 8pm
mpefm
ITALY fair art press release
Ticket:
Artissima Full: € 18,00
Artissima Reduced: € 13,00 *
Artissima three-days-ticket (2,3,4 November 2018): € 36,00
Artissima Sound (at the OGR): free entrance
Tickets can be purchased in advance on vivaticket.it **
one day ticket
three days ticket
* Ages 12–18 and over 65; university students presenting their university card; members of the military, in uniform. Read all the reductions here
** Tickets purchased online offer fast-track entry into the fair, without queuing or turning in vouchers at the ticket office
Important information:
– Given the nature of the event and with due respect for the exhibited artworks, only small dogs kept on a leash and service dogs can access the fair pavilion.
– Due to changes in relation to the security procedures, large bags will not be allowed in the exhibition hall. Please do not bring suitcases or large items bigger than an handbag or laptop bag. Please store all your large items at the Artissima wardrobe, located at the entrance of the pavilion (Cost 3 Euro per item).
Artissima Full: € 18,00
Artissima Reduced: € 13,00 *
Artissima three-days-ticket (2,3,4 November 2018): € 36,00
Artissima Sound (at the OGR): free entrance
Tickets can be purchased in advance on vivaticket.it **
one day ticket
three days ticket
* Ages 12–18 and over 65; university students presenting their university card; members of the military, in uniform. Read all the reductions here
** Tickets purchased online offer fast-track entry into the fair, without queuing or turning in vouchers at the ticket office
Important information:
– Given the nature of the event and with due respect for the exhibited artworks, only small dogs kept on a leash and service dogs can access the fair pavilion.
– Due to changes in relation to the security procedures, large bags will not be allowed in the exhibition hall. Please do not bring suitcases or large items bigger than an handbag or laptop bag. Please store all your large items at the Artissima wardrobe, located at the entrance of the pavilion (Cost 3 Euro per item).
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