Art Madrid'23 – Arte in Acción Workshop with Yolanda Dominguez in Art Madrid\'15

Begging for a CHANEL. Yolanda Domínguez.
 
ART PRACTICE AS A PLACE OF [INTER] SOCIAL CHANGE. Under this title it happens one of the highlightened activities included in the Parallel Program of the contemporary art fair Art Madrid'15. The fair aims in this tenth edition to be open to new artistic initiatives and open them for a new, curious public and committed to what happens in contemporary art.
 
Yolanda Dominguez is, today, one of the most influential artists of the national scene with a blunt and sharp speech that do not let escape gender messages, social criticism and citizen action. Precisely, the action is what defines best her work, work that invading public spaces and forces people to stop, observe and reflect, and precisely art and action is what we propose in this workshop.
Fashion Victims Action. Yolanda Dominguez.
 
 
The concepts of "interaction" and "community" that characterize our social space today require new forms of relationship between artist and viewer. It is necessary to rethink the place and role of art in and out of the economic model and generate new forms of dialogue linking him with the public and current contexts.
 
This workshop presents art as a meeting place between people, as an activity that is inserted into the social spaces and tests the limits of resistance of the institutional sphere, a set of exchanges that goes beyond the material form to propose dynamic situations of collective experience.
 
We will discuss various strategies and proposals for social activation, new languages and areas of action and apply together in a group work.
 
Strike The Pose Action. Yolanda Dominguez.
 
 
Session 1 (3 hours) "the object of art to artistic experience"
 
Introduction: The power of the artwork and its impact / Art as a tool for social intervention.
 
Purpose of art: Journey through the history of art and its purpose / Current situation.
 
Main actors of art: The artist / Viewers / Marketplace / Public Space / Virtual space.
 
The work of Yolanda Dominguez: Beginnings and motivations / Creative Process / Action, impact and diffusion / social implications.
 
Session 2 (3 hours) "The social function of art"
 
Analysis: artists, View and comment on works by artists offering art as a tool for social transformation.
 
New forms of collaboration: Channels / Forms of Funding / Self Branding / Relationship to other disciplines.
 
Development of an action: Concept and development of practical experience in group with subsequent application.
 
"Art practice as a place of [inter] social change" with Yolanda Dominguez.
When?
Saturday February 21. 11: 30h to 14: 30h / lunch break / from 15:30 to 18: 30h.
Where?
BAT Gallery (c/ María de Guzmán, 61. 28003. Madrid)
Price: 50 €
Limited seating. 30 places, by order of registration.
Fill in your entry form HERE
About Yolanda Dominguez
Visual Artist / Performance Art / Street Art
 
Yolanda Dominguez (Madrid, 1977), visual artist, studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Masters in Art and New Technologies for the European University of Madrid and Master in Photography Concept and Design from the School of Photography EFTI, Madrid.
 
Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Spain for Spanish Art Promotion Outdoor (2010) has presented her work at various institutions and festivals like Photoespaña 2012, Contemporary Art JustMad, L'Alliance Française, Mulier Mulieris Museum of the University of Alicante , Live Art Festival Exist in Australia, International Art Festival Gender, NOVA Contemporary Culture Festival in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona and has exhibited in the Gallery Rafael Pérez Hernando and Pilar Cubillo in Madrid, Streitfeld Projektraum in Munich, Red Artspace in Elga Wimmer Gallery Milan and New York.
 
His artistic work transcends social and educational field, collaborating with various institutions and agencies in gender equality programs and through workshops and conferences and is currently professor and tutor of the Master of Contemporary Photography EFTI School of Madrid where he teaches the workshop "Image as a tool for social transformation" and professor in the Master Experiential marketing direction for the creative industries in Madrid School of marketing.

 

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.