Art Madrid'23 – Exhibition Pixar in Caixaforum Madrid

If anytime you have had curiosity of knowing which is the creation process hidden behind an animation product, this is you opportunity of knowing if from the inside and let yourself get surprise. Do not get confused, this is not only an exhibition for kids.

 

 Mike y Sullivan en Monsters University

Mike y Sullivan en Monsters University

Many times we don't perceive the hours of work that are behind an animation product. To a certain point we reduce the effort saying: "alright, but this is made by computer", as if this wonderful machines, that have come to revolutionize work and production guidelines, didn't have behind the intellectual support and effort of man throughout the entire creation process. We think that they are not made films like "Fantasy" or "Snow White" of Disney, industriously hand painted. However, and even though the result can lead to error, the animation modern films are clearly debtors of those first ones, prepared almost in a handcrafted way with mime and care. Media have changed, technique has changed, but the work of conception, design and preparation are still loyal to their origins.

Ricky Nierva. Estudio de color para Mike. (Monstruos, S.A., 2001). Rotulador y lápiz sobre fotocopia

The exhibition "Pixar" that comes to CaixaForum Madrid, from the 21th March to the 22th June of 2014, allows us to know from the inside this unknown universe of which many times we only realize the visible result. Pixar has been a pioneer enterprise in digital animation sector, moving ahead in a premature way what seemed to be a transgressive future, first, revolutionary, after, and finally prosperous and promising, that is now recognised as a mark with its own personality and identity.


As a little window opened to the mysteries of digital animation world, the exhibition is a didactic tour about the process of a Pixar film's creation, from the characters's design, mockups's elaboration made of resin or the proofs of the storyboard to check the impact and reception of script. You will be surprised of seeing the quality and variety of previous artworks, made in different plastic techniques, much before that the first digital line has been sketched on a computer. In addition, the exhibition room hides two interesting dark rooms: a zooscope's mockup with Toy Story characters that without any doubt will make you think about the technical functioning of this optic effect, and a projection room of Pixar's first short films, all a delightful for sector lovers.

 
 Bob Pauley. Woody y Buzz (Toy Story, 1995). Reproducción a rotulador y lápiz.

This exhibition for all public does not have any waste, and once you were inside you will discover (as I did) that you have seen many more Pixar's films than you remembered... Do not miss complementary activities, there are interesting chats about cinematographic script or preparation and definition of characters in this kind of films.

 

More information:

Opened from Monday to Sunday: from 10 to 20 h.

http://www.agendacentrosobrasociallacaixa.es/es/caixaforum-madrid/exposiciones-temporales-caixaforum-madrid/pixar

 

 

 

 

 

In the year 2020 in the heart of Barcelona a wandering gallery was born, the same one that in February 2021 would debut at Art Madrid with an exhibition proposal focused on contemporary portraits; with this subject matter it would manage to create a powerful dialogue between artwork and audience and make the seal Inéditad remain in the history of the event that contained it.

Jean Carlos Puerto. Protección. Oil and copper leaf on wood. 60 x 48. 2021. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Since that first time and until today, the wandering gallery has managed to build projects on otherness, has repositioned in the spotlight the discourses on the LGTBIQ+ collective, has consolidated a group of artists who share its principles of resilience and empathy and the best thing is that it continues to bet from the professionalism and commitment to give voice to the difference.

Claudio Petit-Laurent.. El Joven de la Perla. Oil on wood. 30 x 30 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Inéditad Gallery, thanks to its founder Luis López, its collaborators and the infinite possibilities manifested in the works of the artists it represents, is a gallery that has demonstrated its capacity and courage to stimulate the sensibility of the public through art and seduce a generation that moves between the glass window and the analogical story. Inéditad is a nomadic gallery that has gathered around it a community of artists and has moved the context with exhibition projects that think about LGTBIQ+ art without prejudices.

Pepa Salas Vilar. Las marcas del arcoiris. Oil on canvas. 40 x 50 cm. 2022. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Pride and Prejudice was inaugurated. An exhibition that brings together the works of sixteen artists: Abel Carrillo, Alex Domènech, Carlos Enfedaque, Silvia Flechoso, Jamalajama, Daniel Jaén, Claudio Petit-Laurent, Jean Carlos Puerto, Fernando Romero, Pablo Rodríguez, Pepa Salas Vilar, Jack Smith, Pablo Sola, Bran Sólo, Elia Tomás and Utürüo. Painting, illustration, photography and digital art are the manifestations that bring into dialogue around fifty neatly threaded pieces, in a discursive line that discusses such a latent phenomenon as discrimination. To achieve this, the artists invited to the exhibition question themselves whether: Does discrimination exist within the LGTBIQ+ collective?

Pride and Prejudice Official Poster. Image courtesy of the gallery.

With approaches on and from the body, the proposal invites to celebrate diversity, proposes to question and self-question the prejudices and attitudes of society against the collective. Pride and Prejudice is a space for dialogue about the constructs imposed on us by society. It is also an oasis in which to deconstruct with tolerance and respect the subjectivities that sometimes prevent us from approaching the production of the participating artists, simply because "the beautiful" does not fit in an androgynous body. The subjugation of stereotypes are pressed with determination to find the beauty of diversity in other palpable facets of reality.

Pablo Sola. All men are dogs. Photography. 2014. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Throughout these three years Inéditad has stimulated the vindictive projection towards bad practices, has questioned estates around the LGTBIQ+ body and the most admirable thing, is that these capacities have resurfaced around the dialogue and the visual narrative of the stories that are told from the visual: Artworks that are people, art that is, per se, humanity. Overcome impositions and accept what is different in order to continue fighting against homophobia, biphobia, lesbophobia or transphobia and defend the equal rights that all the acronyms of the collective deserve in our community.

That's Pride and Prejudice: One creature, the happiest in the world. And maybe other projects and other people have said it - or felt it - before, but none so fairly.

Silvia Flechoso. Hola, soy maricón. Oil on canvas. 73 x 54 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

From June 8th until June 22nd you can visit Pride and Prejudice. Carrer de Palau núm. 4. Canal Gallery space. Barcelona.