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1 aggtelek WORKS Alameda Nº Madrid T: info@poncerobles.com

2 Statement Barcelona, 1978 & 1982 The main interest in our work lays on creative processes highly focused on the investigation of a theoretical development of art production. These fearless, hyper productive and disengaged processes are regarded as a way to show the continuous thoughts, ideas or daily dialogues that have opened the path for new works interacting in a diversity of disciplines, such as performances, sculptures, videos, texts or installations. In this process of creation and/or exhibition those works can be modified, destroyed or analyzed from other perspectives, generating a constant mutation within the work and therefore evoking different readings. Starting off with an aesthetic of accumulation combined with cleaning processes, we aim to develop a model of work, making of its multidisciplinary corpus, an expanded projection of contaminated mechanisms. Mechanisms insofar as these works do not distinguish between processes and products, but rather presents itself as a continuum. Thus, contaminated beyond the development of pieces in certain hardwares, we do not have parcels to differentiate disciplines, but rather a space that unfolds so that we all adjoin, fuse, interact and superimpose, always seeking to re think new possible manners of creation, thus by considering all possible formal aspects of the art theory, its grammar and its performativity. We feel deeply committed to ideas of our time. For us, Art is related to life, expressed by a vigorous and forceful vitality within the work. This liveliness is many times provoked by a challenge of the limits of the politically correct often through a humorous critique of human condition.

3 WORKS

4 travel notes series Travel Notes is a series of paintings created from the research of Tumblr images. By alterating their configuration, the idea is to give them a new conceptual destination. Each one has their own authenticity certificate which, as a writting-collage and waybill, draw a specific travel itinerary. A 3D painting where the artists expect the collector or the spectator experiment the conceptuality of the work, both by living in the idea and theatricalizing the action of representation as well as becoming performers of the artwork. These series want to emphasize the life of the painting, because the goal is to venture into its concept (trip) and to experience it.

5 Beach Z. Travel notes series Oil on canvas 100 x 70cm 2013

6 Kansas Summer. Travel notes series Oil on canvas 100 x 70cm 2013

7 Parrot in a 50 s boredom. Travel notes series Oil on canvas 100 x 70cm 2013

8 the speaker Room installation centered around a 72-minute atmospheric novel played on speakers; room consists of one pink wallpapered wall, one brown colored wall, yellow ceiling lights, custom-made pillows using tropical patterns and select oil on canvas paintings of various sizes. An athmospheric novel played on speakers. Oil paintings. Pillows. Twitter version: Ian Fleming/ You Only Live Twice/ Carribean Birds/ Degas Ballerinas/ Haruki Murakami-Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World/ Many times of Juan Muñoz/ China/ Mike Kelley/ Richard Prince- Nurse Paintings/ Underground Theatre/ Post-Studio/ Delacroix-The Barque of Dante/Persephone of Stravinski with libretto by Andre Gide/ David Foster Wallece/ Life / Politics/ Muchachada Nui/ Helio Oiticia/ South Park/ Vice/ Maria Montes/ Lucy Lippard: the dematerialization of Art

9 The Speaker Installation 2012

10 Macbook Pro, Carribean Birds and Radical Perspectives in the Arts Oil on canvas 120 x 180 cm 2012 Tiki Room Oil on canvas 120 x 180 cm 2012

11 Object s poetics In a revisitation that alludes to relic exhibitions, curiosity showcases or anthropology museums, this surface is host to objects inspired by the authors subjective social ideas about today s world. Each one comes from and is related to a social response idea, mood or attitude. Media, consumption, design, art history and, in general, capitalist policy debris come together in a joint narration via the information labels of each product. For the opening, a live text action was held; an expanded product of the installation which was named Un poema en cinco días laborables que no lo son and was performed as a Spoken Word piece by the outstanding young Spanish writer Eloy Fernández-Porta.

12 Poéticas del Objeto Mixed media Installation 2012

13 Poéticas del Objeto Mixed media Installation 2012

14 the autopsy of form This is an essay about form written in a performance. Taking the subject of the new forms that will come, the text is read by an orator activating the players to make specific movements or constructions, giving new ideas or possibilities of creation. Below a brief extract of the text: The origin of this essay about form written as a performance is to criticize the form, seeking to give new creative principles, and I ve decided to do it in this way: In a performance, where the word form is implicit in the word. A performance that turns back to its origins: to insult, to bother, to provoke. Not lot of people can say they have seen a performance which was not boring. An essay, as Montaigne said, is a judgement, an experiment. Each single experience must have hypothesis, and the hypothesis has something fictitious. The etymology of fiction comes from fingere, participle of fictum, which means to mold, to give form..

15 The Autopsy of Form Performance 2011

16 The Autopsy of Form Performance 2011

17 a sort of song The idea of this experimental show was to break the boundaries between artists and curators. We proposed to make an exhibition completely clueless to the curator, who was forced to collaborate with two other ones. They three had to compose the exhibition, its meaning and path. The main curator placed the works as he thought they must be displayed; the second one wrote a text about the relation of the word Aggtelek with some objects; the third one felt manipulated because he couldn t understand the meaning of the show. He then forced the artists to wear mascot heads at the opening, making them feel as his puppets. Who was curating and who creating?.

18 A Sort of Song Installation 2011

19 A Sort of Song Installation 2011

20 slash theatre of my mundo Slash Theatre of My Mundo is a series of works that run from the Big Bang to an unknown future. Taking the concept of the first principle of the creative act the story of this project runs from the Big Bang until the Middle Ages. Rethinking creation through history, the evolution of forms are presented in a personal way, using Greek or Asian mythology, contemporary references or vanguardian ideas. The two main characters are both the ones of aggtelek collective. They walk through time and space, seeking to find the absolute sculpture as the philosophic stone of creation.

21 Slash Theatre of My Mundo 00:17:41 Ed

22 Slash Theatre of My Mundo Installation 2010

23 ass- dialectics This work is an auto-reinterpretation of the series Ensayos Escultóricos, where new models of creation are developed through self references. The result is a video where we start to wonder about the value of the authorship, of creation and the created and specially about the sculptural concept through eclectic references and auto-mockery. For the exhibition Ass Dialectics we presented a display of derived pieces of the videotaped process. The exhibition space ended up totally transformed in a dark labyrinth.

24 Ass-Dialectics Video 00:17:40 Ed

25 Ass-Dialectics Installation 2009

26 Alameda Nº Madrid T: info@poncerobles.com

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