Quizá es cierto en teoría

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In 1977, Magritte visits the Museo Uffici in Florence and, 15 minutes later, comments: I saw Le Printemps by Botticelli, it’s not bad, but it is better in postcard. Ramón Gómez de la Serna’studio in fully covered with postcards. Benjamin sending postcards to his friends from Ibiza…

Parra & Romero is pleased to present Quizá es cierto en teoría, the first individual exhibition by the artist Oriol Vilanova (Barcelona, 1980). Oriol conceived this exhibition as a place for actualization, re-lecture and questioning of concepts as cliché, anonymity, authorship and symbology.

Copias (2000 – ongoing) is a collection of postcards of Triumphal Arches from all over the world. A Babelic approximation to occidental culture’s features, exploits and victories. The repetition of the symbol and its re-design during one thousand years; the copy; the exception. The collection of postcards works as a tale of the history of photography, from its beginnings until nowadays, tracing techniques and formats from anonymous photographers. The postcard as an advertising space and the perpetuation of a large-scale cliché.
Copias is an open archive, with no expected end. Far from being a corpse, this is a space of possibilities, construction and free association for memory and fiction. The artist will keep sending new postcards weekly; the piece will be growing according to the postcards he will
find. The installation offers a physical occupation of the space, conditioning the spectator’s movement, his perception and expectation. An approximation both poetical and critical.

John (2012) is a conceptual sculpture with post-minimalist reminiscences. This is an empty collection, the trace of the collector’s cabinet. Six doors half open, a furniture with an abstract distance, adapted to the gallery space in order to mark the path and the exhibition visuals.

What you see depends on what you are looking for (2012) is a photograph of a drawer from the Wax Museum in Paris. An oniric and meticulous collection. Everything is eyes, the multiple looks. Another legitimation space.

Oriol Vilanova currently lives and works in Paris and Barcelona. He is graduated in Architecture. He is founder of publishing house Editions for Friends. He is fascinated by fleamarket rituals and 20th century avantgardes. Recently he has made projects at Musac, León; Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona; FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkerke; FormContent London; MACBA, Barcelona; Via Farini, Milano; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; CA2M, Madrid.He has published with JRPRingier Christoph Keller Editions, Cru and EFF. He is currently resident in Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2011-2012) where he will present an exhibition in June 2012.