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Title: 
Todos los conciertos, todas las noches, todo vacío
Date: 
20-05-2021 / 26-09-2021
Place: 
Exhibition hall, floor -2
Artist(s): 
Aláez, Ana Laura (1964- )
Curator(s): 
Espejo, Bea (1977- )
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Móstoles)‏
Type: 
Exhibition
Tags: 
Contemporary art
Sculpture
Aláez, Ana Laura (1964- )
Summary: 
Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao hosts the exhibition Todos los conciertos, todas las noches, todo vacío by artist Ana Laura Aláez and curated by Bea Espejo. This exhibition is the first monographic show of this magnitude presented in the artists’ hometown and brings together some of her latest works in dialogue with others of the start.

Formed in the Basque Country in the second half of the 1980s, her early works indicate a process of assimilation of the issues raised by the previous generation, called the New Basque Sculpture, while introducing corrective elements linked to the gender perspective from the use of process materials and strategies, apart from those traditionally considered sculptural.

Todos los conciertos, todas las noches, todo vacío proposes a U-turn to the origin, i.e. returning to the starting point to work among the fissures in the topics which have accompanied her work in the last 20 years, namely the body as a plinth, the plinth as a sculpture, the sculpture as a song, the night as material, identity as conflict, imposition as possibility. The title of the exhibition is taken from one of her installations and evokes the trace of an event, with that apparent unproductive time with illusions and expectations versus accomplishments and disappointments.

Description: 
The exhibition of Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao develops more extensively the project of the same title that was shown in the CA2M Madrid from November 2019 to January 2020. It is structured in four sections:
  • Objects and abject extensions
  • Excitement and vacuum
  • Violence and vulnerability
  • Myth, women's sexuality, camouflage ideology
On this occasion, due to the spatial possibilities offered by Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao, these sections have been considerably increased with other works. In addition, a documentation area has been created aiming to reveal some of its creative processes as well as showing, through models and prototypes, environmental projects and installations made by the artist for specific spaces.

Likewise, the trilingual catalogue edited for the occasion is an indispensable part of this project, which, along with the documentation of some of her works, includes texts written by Aláez interspersed with other voices: Bea Espejo, Paul B. Preciado, Angel Bados, Maria José Belbel and Sonia Fernández Pan.
Related activities: 
Ana Laura Aláez & Bea Espejo. Conversation
Ana Laura Aláez & La Ribot. Conversation
AZzabalik. Encuentro en torno a la creación artística (2021)
Publication: 
Todos los conciertos, todas las noches, todo vacío [Catalogue]
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