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JAVIER VALLHONRAT La sombra incisa. (Sondeo interrumpido de una divisoria móvil) 2016-2018.
JAVIER VALLHONRAT La sombra incisa. (Sondeo interrumpido de una divisoria móvil) 2016-2018.
Madrid 10.09>05.01.2021 Alicante 03.10>1601.2021. Aural | info@auralgaleria.com | www.auralgaleria.com
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Installation view, Madrid, Javier Vallhonrat “La sombra incisa. (Sondeo interrumpido de una divisoria móvil) 2016-2018 ”, 2020
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Variable measures
Javier
Vallhonrat
Inclined, 2016
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Fotografía color, impresión de tintas pigmentarias sobre papel de algodón, dibond
25.5 x 35 cm
Javier
Vallhonrat
La sombra incisa, 2016 - 2018
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Video digital color con sonido
9m
Javier
Vallhonrat
53. Perfil, 2017
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Digital. Printing of pigmented inks.
205 x 175 cm
Javier
Vallhonrat
“Perímetro” Dibujo preparatorio, 2016 - 2017
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Lápiz de grafito sobre papel
25.5 x 33 cm
Javier
Vallhonrat
"Larva" Dibujo preparatorio, 2016 - 2017
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Unique
Lápiz de grafito sobre papel
25.5 x 33 cm
Javier
Vallhonrat
"Vuelo" Dibujo preparatorio, 2016 - 2017
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Lápiz de grafito sobre papel
25.5 x 33 cm
Javier
Vallhonrat
“Tienda” Dibujo preparatorio, 2016 - 2017
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Lápiz de grafito sobre papel
25.5 x 33 cm
Javier
Vallhonrat
"Habitación 2" Dibujo preparatorio, 2016 - 2017
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Lápiz de grafito sobre papel
25.5 x 33 cm
Javier
Vallhonrat
“Visor” Dibujo preparatorio, 2016 - 2017
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Lápiz de grafito sobre papel
25.5 x 33 cm
Javier
Vallhonrat
“Políptico” Dibujo preparatorio, 2016
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Lápiz de grafito sobre papel
28 x 35 cm
Javier
Vallhonrat
"Cotas" Dibujo preparatorio, 2016 - 2017
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Graphite pencil on paper
25.5 x 33 cm
JAVIER VALLHONRAT
La sombra incisa. (Sondeo interrumpido de una divisoria móvil) 2016-2018.
Madrid 10.09>05.01.2021 Alicante 03.10>1601.2021. Aural | info@auralgaleria.com | www.auralgaleria.com
JAVIER VALLHONRAT
The Incised Shadow. (Interrupted Survey of a Mobile Division) 2016-2018
Since 2010 Javier Vallhonrat has developed different projects in high mountain environments. Through “La sombra incisa”, the artist establishes a prolonged, intimate and silent dialogue with the Maladeta glacier, (Pyrenees of Huesca), the only historical stronghold in southern Europe that survives the effects of climate change in conditions of extreme vulnerability. During part of August, the glacier loses the snow cover that protects it, revealing the complex silhouette of this ice entity that the artist tries to record by melting a recording device and provisional habitat in a high mountain tent.
The prolonged action of staying on the edge of the glacier – a childish, poetic and absurd gesture – allows him to simultaneously carry out recording, itinerary, permanence and accompaniment of this unique entity that inevitably disappears.
From an awareness of otherness, the perception of this alien and threatening niche is gradually transformed into awareness of a highly vulnerable place, in which knowledge, affection and immediate experience allow him to dialogue with the glacier in conditions of uncertainty.
“La sombra incisa” seeks to give visuality to this process of accompaniment and knowledge around that entity. Working along the edge of the glacier, a shadow line, is a metaphor for the richness of the spaces of silence, shadow and emptiness that interest him.
Javier Vallhonrat’s work contains a strong metalinguistic component, always questioning the photographic language itself. The author places the viewer before the perplexity and astonishment of what he is observing, leading his gaze to the uncertainty between the real and the imaginary. With this project, he won the 2019 Enaire Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.