VENTAJAS DE VIAJAR EN TREN

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Ventajas de viajar en tren is a group exhibition which comes from the dialogue between the gallery and its artists. The installation and display of the works, a press release, the title, a publication among others are the result of this collaboration, because each one is conceived by the participants on the show. At the same time, their works are related with key artists on the conceptual and minimal art of the sixties and seventies. All of them share the same artistic language. In this way, behind one idea, works of different times with the same aesthetic attitude coexist.

Playing on repetition and symmetry, doubling and replacement, this ambitious exhibition that opens the new premises of gallery Parra and Romero considers the nature of the artworks and question their inscription in a moment and time, as much as their multiples meanings. Loosely considering the possibility of the presence of an artwork within a group show (why a piece rather than another one, are these interchangeable?), each piece is somehow the double of itself – a mirror within a mirror.

Acting as a caption to all the works, and positioned where captions usually are, a single print always reappears throughout the exhibition to the right of each piece. The presence of this single yet multiple work acts as both a re-definition to each object (thus playing the role of the caption giving away the necessary information), and the constant confrontation of an object faced with always the same one (thus creating an exhibition within the exhibition).

An understanding of equality between all artworks and their history is continuously laid out as these works are implied, copied, remade – everything becoming a gauge to the others, acting as a folding onto itself. Ventajas de viajar en tren is an exhibition which unifies the conceptual dialogue of artists of different times in the same context.

oinciding with the opening of the new space and the show Ventajas de viajar en tren, we launch Partons de zero / Let’s start from Zero, publication curated by Mathieu Copeland and Philippe Decrauzat and published by Parra & Romero.

We would like to give special thanks to: Galerie Sprüth Magers, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Paula Cooper Gallery, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Galerie Barbara Weiss, The Approach Gallery, The State of Lee Lozano and the Musée Jenisch Vevey as well as Mathieu Copeland and all the artists involved.