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Museo ABC

Connections 02. A message for Annabel

From 30 September to 20 November - 2011

A message for Annabel is Juan Carlos Bracho‘s project (La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz, 1970) within the “Connections” programme curated by Óscar Alonso Molina. It is the second exhibition within this cycle, in which the artists taking part in this event- always linked to the art of drawing whatever its current manifestation may be-, are invited to develop an exhibition choosing 2 works of art as starting point: one from the Santander Collection and the other one from the ABC Museum’s collection.

For this occasion, the artist has produced 2 videos, one for each collection, where 100 works selected form the catalogue of both of them fuse themselves slowly, forming thus a new abstract image. The collections of both institutions will be beard in mind with 2 works of art that in their dialogue tense a conceptual spectrum form the very concrete to the generic: from the ABC collection comes the portrait of the newspaper’s founder and its collection, Torcuato Luca de Tena, made in April 1929 by the hand of Joaquín Xaudaró, whilst the Santander’s collection have chosen a magnificent French 18th century anonymous still-life, inscribed within the vanitas genre.

The exhibition thinks about what is a collection in our days, understanding it the artist at last as a net, a permeable weave plastered with internal connections that allows some images to pass, whilst it rejects some others, giving place in the end to a special composition in which each spectator, each user becomes a temporary collector that over that “text” never concluded, takes his own decisions. As a last resort the artist induces us to think over the power, the meaning of the images and our relationship with them.