AVELINO SALA

AVELINO SALA - ECOTOPIAS Series

Technique: Laser-cut, stamped and chromed books, variable sizes.

Artist Biography: His work as an artist has led him to question the cultural and social reality with a critical and unconventional look in a continuous exploration of the social and political imaginary. His projects exploit the capacity of art to generate experimental spaces that give rise to new realities. Sala is one of the Spanish references of art as political resistance. In his production is present a kind of poetry that contains a reflection on state powers and the control they exercise. His forceful aesthetics adds strength to a discourse as necessary as it is powerful.Since the 2000s Sala has been working in the global context of contemporary art, exhibiting and participating in Biennials and institutions such as the Caracas Biennial of Fire (2006), VideoZone V Biennial of Vi'deo Art of Tel Aviv (2010), Nightcomers, 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007), Biennial of the End of the World (2011), Biennial of Central American Isthmus of Guatemala (2014) or the South Biennial, Together Apart (2019). His work is presented in 2020 in a large project at the Centre del Carmen in Valencia where the themes he has been working on for years are developed: migrations, contemporary dislocation, the environmental crisis and the paradoxes of capitalism.His work has been present in numerous exhibitions, both national and international.

 

The ecotopias series (2022) maintains the format of other series of pieces such as "books for an unwritten history" but with the particularity that in this case the novels are already written. Little remains to be written, if before the piece focused on the slogans of Fridays for Future, here, in Ecotopias it focuses on dystopian novels that are focused on the collapse of the environment, of our planet. We want utopia and yet we launched ourselves long ago into a race to self-destruction, so the sculpture focuses on all these novels and generates here a sort of "library of disaster" with a gradient of green colors, (the color of the whitening of ecological issues are green), a visual trompe l'oeil about how we stand on the edge of the abyss or directly into it.