The Hauser & Wirth Menorca Gallery In the Illa del Rei, De Maó, hosts since Friday the first individual exhibition in Spain of the Artist Argentina Mika Rottenberg (Buenos Aires, 1976), formed by the recognized Video facilities «Cosmic Generator» (2017) i «Spaghetti Blockchain»(2019), together with the most recent series«Lampshares» (2024-2025).
The artistic exhibition called «Mika Rottenberg. Vibrant matter», Which can be visited until October 26 and that this Friday was the subject of a guided tour by the director of the center Marcalvo Mar, is complemented with a Recent drawingsrelated to the themes of their filming, facilities and sculptural works.
Mika Rottenberg, who lives in New York, has explored for years the Relationship with capitalist production and work systemsfrom which it has built a universe filled with a diversity of worlds through immersive and multidimensional works. In fact, his work exposes The absurdity of global realitywhile combining hypnotic and disturbing images, in addition to blurring the boundaries between facts and fiction, natural and artificial.
Mar Rescalvo started the tour with the series «Lampshares», As a result of having turned his study into a laboratory as a result of his Exploration on human attraction for everything that is toxic. It’s about invasive climbers that combines with recovered plastic that has been extracted as a natural resource. Therefore, combines the natural with the artificial And the processing of the plastic carried out by the artist allows her soft and bright surfaces to become imperfect forms, giving the feeling of having been cut by hand.
These materials that in other contexts are considered toxic to invasive They transform into unique lights as creative alternative to production and consumption systems massive
On the other hand, a selection of Drawings that reflect body elementssuch as fingerprints or fingerprints, which are in harmony with organic and sexual forms of «Lampshares». The aforementioned body elements tend towards concern for the non -normative bodies of women and the role of female work, which the Argentine artist has reflected in her film works.
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Globalization, the world of work and that of the show They are the constants of Rottenberg’s work, three concepts that are perfectly reflected in the Video Installation «Cosmic Generator». His viewing allows the visitor to discover that the distinction between architectural fantasy and real space is diluted as the artist confronts the distance between apparently disconnected places Among them. To do this, he has made filming in a Yiwu plastic products market, in China, and on the border between Mexico and California, which combines with elements of magical realism recorded in the study.
Besides, “Spaghetti Blockchain»It allows the viewer to travel through a universe of incongruous scenes that arouse a diversity of sensory reactions: From ASMR sounds and guttural songs of singers from Tuvà, in Siberia, to images of the CERN antimatter factory and a CERN antimatter field collection and a mechanical harvester in a potato field.
The “Spaghetti Blockchain” title refers to the Blog chain technologywhich allows the data to be regulated by their own continuous movement within a Computer set instead of being controlled by a single element.
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