Gallery Façade. November 2017.
Exhibition view. Eugenio Espinoza, Jon Mikel Euba, Tony Conrad, Christian Bagnat, Sandra Gamarra, Jutta Koether.
Exhibition view. Eugenio Espinoza, Jon Mikel Euba, Christian Bagnat, Sandra Gamarra.
Exhibition view. Johanna Calle, Carmela García, Amilcar Llontop, Geta Bratescu.
Exhibition view. Tony Conrad, Christian Bagnat, Sandra Gamarra, Jutta Koether, Denn.
Exhibition view. Jutta Koether, Dennis Adams, Johanna Calle.
Exhibition view. Sandra Gamarra, Jutta Koether, Dennis Adams.
Exhibition view. Iñaki Garmendia, Geta Bratescu, Alice Creischer, Eugenio Espinoza.
LiMAC archives.
Christian Bagnat, William Cordova.
LiMAC archives.
Iñaki Garmendia, Christian Bagnat, Jon Mikel Euba.
Colectivo Bestiario, Phil Collins, Carmela Garcia.
Colectivo Bestiario, Phil Collins, Carmela Garcia.
Raul Garcia Pereira
Raul Garcia Pereira, Elvira Poxon.
Colectivo Bestiario, Carmela Garcia, Christian Bagnat, Moyra Davey.
Christian Bagnat, Moyra Davey.
Daniel Paris Clavel, Iñaki Garmendia, Raul Garcia Pereira.
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“In our urban society everything is connected. The needs of each person are nurtured by the abilities of many others. Our lives are woven together in a cloth. But the connections that strengthen society also make it vulnerable. ” (Threads, drama series produced by the BBC, 1984)
Raise the Curtain * is a web of music-related visual expressions that resonate with hip-hop, punk, blues, hardcore, salsa, electro, and other avant-garde forms of urban popular culture. This title alludes to the curtain that reveals the artist to his audience. Fabrics, nets or dress codes form the background fabric that unites sound and image, identity and anonymity, culture and politics. While the seemingly elusive essence of sound wanders through the exhibition’s warp and woof, a fabric is stretched that resists the show’s apolitical hegemony. Parallel to the works, Raise the Curtain includes a selection of brochures, videos, fanzines, photographs and records of underground music movements; mainly international hardcore punk from the 80s to the present day. Outside the commercial spheres and against all odds, this rebellious spirit do it yourself (“do it yourself”) spread throughout Latin America, the United States, Eastern and Western Europe, as well as Asia and the Middle East, serving as a sounding board for a social malaise. These collections expose a topography of fragments in which memories of concerts, songs and places constitute material evidence of forms of collective struggle. For this reason, LiMac exposes these archives as the testimony of a multicultural reality made up of gaps, bridges, noises and silences, where the white neutrality of the exhibition space is confronted with these forms of manifestation.
* The title of this exhibition comes from the song “Raise the curtain” by the hardcore punk band Jerry’s Kids.