Imanol Marrodán

Imanol Marrodán - Allí (Identity Testimonies Series)

Artist Biography: Imanol Marrodán. Bilbao 1964, Basque Country. Interdisciplinary creator and researcher, he develops, among other activities, a critical work through various events related to art and contemporary thought as part of his personal creative project. The concept of limit, inspired by the idea of the ancient Roman "limes", cited by the philosopher Eugenio Trias as a metaphor for a civilized and rationally controlled knowledge, is the starting point of a concept of limit that is not understood as the end of something, but as a means for a new "beginning" of renewal, growth and evolution. It is the process of formation of an experience that shares a socio-political habitat in an industrial, materialistic, technological and artificial world, as opposed to a natural environment closely linked to the laws of the universe, which we hardly know, but which we continue to feel and intuit. As a conclusion and main priority, Imanol Marrodán's creative project seeks to highlight and bring to light the diverse uses, utilities and practical applications of contemporary creation as one of the essential driving forces behind the future of a social, political and economic community, contributing to determine, in a transversal manner, its changes and evolutions. He has exhibited in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Korea, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland and the United States. His work has been shown in international contemporary art fairs such as ARCO, VALENCIA ART, ARTE SANTANDER and DFOTO (Spain), ART COLOGNE and KUNST KÖLN (Germany), KIAF (Seoul, Korea), ArteBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina), BALELATINA (Basel, Switzerland)... etc.... His work is widely represented in museums, public institutions and private collections.

 

Photography: Identity Series "Aesthetics is political, private lives are political, the idea of beauty is never a neutral idea." (Tillmans) The photographic work of Imanol Marrodán is gathered in a multidirectional core called Identity Series, which follows the reformulation and resignification of the image rethought and deconstructed in a comparative methodology studied by Aby Warburg in his "Atlas Mnemosyne" that proposes a procedure of inquiry and proposals of relationships between images conceiving a procedure of exploration of systems of non-obvious meanings. The process allows the creation of groupings of images through the partial introduction of new elements that allude to an idea, in order to establish new relationships in an open and infinite process that creates a personal cartography, allowing constant re-readings. This line of research has been adopted by creators such as Gerhard Richter in his Atlas series and continued by the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in his comparative investigations of rethought and decontextualized images, in new nexuses or groups of context. The philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman made an important contribution to this new deconstructive resignifying line, in the exhibition inspired by the work of Aby Warburg, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid) entitled: "Atlas: How to carry the world on your back?", between 2010 and 2011, and which continued until the end of 2011, in Karlsruhe and Hamburg. The resubjectivation and reordering in a multidirectional meaningful structure as opposed to a thought that until now was intended to be imagined, imposed, in a single linear and temporal form. Our personal experience of the world: Simply a vital, individual, unique and non-transferable experience of the daily occurrence of unsuspected incalculable value that changes the laws of "the script" of the conventional. https://clavoardiendo-magazine.com/mundofoto/panorama/wolfgang-tillmans-y-la-desobjetivacion-de-la-imagen/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0mKtAb4eDryQNs-mMCot1OZSsDbEx2gE0QRwBzNTUEu2KteQIjqv4AASA_aem_AbykSxjnXzJfHD-n7QOhME5xJkDg5iThqK9yKTgCvehjjWslMRnp0D7sreKaF-EpIcCR_-toopJj2uIcnWxTAhF3