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The universe of immersive and multidimensional works by Mika Rottenberg in Hauser & Wirth

The universe of immersive and multidimensional works by Mika Rottenberg in Hauser & Wirth
The universe of immersive and multidimensional works by Mika Rottenberg in Hauser & Wirth
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The Hauser & Wirth Menorca Gallery In the Illa del Rei, De Maó, hosts since the 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 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 of having turned his study into a laboratory as a result of his Exploration on 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 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

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On the other hand, a of Drawings that reflect body elementssuch as fingerprints or fingerprints, which are in with organic and sexual forms of «Lampshares». The aforementioned body elements tend towards concern for the non -normative bodies of and the role of work, which the Argentine artist has reflected in her works.

Videos

Globalization, the 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 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 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 technologywhich allows the data to be regulated by their own continuous movement within a Computer set instead of being controlled by a single element.

The note

An Education Lab with the collaboration of the ESADIB

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