YEAR ■ 2006 – 2007
The Bordeline is a book-object, an imponent and enigmatic container, from which have been made 60 numbered copies. Each copy includes twenty original works of art, made one to one by the participant artists. The works have been assembled in the interior of the steel container (as chapters of a book); a warm book, old, looking hermetic but easily manageable. Each numbered copy is acompained by a originality certificate signed by all and each one of the artists.
The “book” The Borderline, is developed on several suports and techniques, sculptures in marble, painting, engravings, photographies, video, music and literature, all acompained by a luxurious catalogue mentioning the contained works as well as comments of the authors and several details of the making of the project.
La Raya es un libro-objeto en forma de imponente y enigmático contenedor, del que se han realizado 60 ejemplares numerados. Cada ejemplar incluye una veintena de piezas de arte originales, elaboradas una a una por los artistas participantes, que se ensamblan en el interior del contenedor de acero (a modo de capítulos de un libro); un libro cálido, envejecido, aparentemente hermético pero en realidad fácilmente manejable. Cada ejemplar numerado se acompaña de una certificación de originalidad firmada por todos y cada uno de los artistas.
El “libro” La Raya se desarrolla sobre diversos soportes y técnicas: esculturas en mármol, pintura, grabados, fotografías, vídeo, música y literatura, todo ello acompañado de un lujoso ejemplar de un catálogo que refiere tanto las obras contenidas como comentarios de los autores y diversos detalles de la elaboración del proyecto.
AUTHOR / EDITOR
alfonso doncel | artistic direction | painting | texts
COAUTHORES
josé luis hinchado | pedro casero | arni giraldo | enrique garcía fuentes | antonio sáez delgado | pedro felipe, pedro almoril | jorge juan
EXHIBITIONS
- ■ 2006 MEIAC / Museo Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo / Badajoz / Spain
- ■ 2006 Casa Fernando Pessoa / Lisbon / Portugal
- ■ 2006 MEIAC-Museo Iberoamericano de arte contemporáneo / Badajoz / Spain
- ■ 2006 Estampa 06: XIV Salón Internacional de grabado y ediciones de arte contemporáneo / Madrid / Spain.
CATALOGUES
- ■ La Raya. Edited by Indugrafic, SL. ISBN 84-88956-77-0. Badajoz / Spain (2006).
- ■ Catalogue Estampa 06. Edited by Fundación Actillibre. ISBN 84-89050-28-7. Madrid / Spain (2006).
CONTENTS OF THE BOX / EXHIBITION
- ■ Box / container of natural oxide steel & varnished / 49 x 50 x 31 cm and 40 kg of weight / designed exclusively for the work and realized one to one / numbered; the box contains 8 folders, one for every author.
- ■ Folder of the author Jorge Juan Espino, with 4 engravings on paper Basic of 35 x 45 cm each one.
- ■ Folder of the author Enrique García Fuentes, with the text Words to relieve an uncertainty, of 18 pages without numeration, verjured paper cardboard of 40 x 40 cm.
- ■ Folder of the swollen author José Luis Hinchado, with multiple sculpture ensamblable of three pieces + pedestal of iron, realized in portuguese marbles / size 45,8 x 24 cm x 11 cm.
- ■ Folder of the author Pedro Casero, with 4 color photographies of the series Outlines 05, of 30 x 40 cm in polyester.
- ■ Folder of the author Antonio Sáez Delgado, with the book Errant Life, of 64 pages, classic binding without trimming, presented in box and lined with paper kraft black.
- ■ Folder of the author Alfonso Doncel, with the diptych Social Phobia, of 41,9 x 91 cm, realized with sculpture of tin and polyester with pigments on table. Folder contains with photographic sheet of the virtual assembly of 121 pieces size 479 x 526 cm.
- ■ Folder of the authors Pedro Almoril / Pedro Felipe, with a catalogue with 100 pages, color printed on high & shine paper and a folder with the certificate of originality issued by Ediciones del Oeste SL, signed by the totality of the authors (8).
- ■ Folder of the author Arni Giraldo, with a musical & video CD, containing 8 topics of music neo chill out, of 45:35 of duration, a art video of 1:34 of duration and three silk-screen printings in color on glass of 5 mm, of 18 x 24 cm, of the series Another Look.
The Borderline, titled as an evocation to the “expansive thought”, is maybe the most emphatic graphic work made and published in Extremadura, Spain.
Alternatively discoursing between the abstracts and figurative creations, the authors adopt a provocative actitude, willing to transgress the usual limits, playing with the antitesis and paradoxes, iconigraphically and literally. And, as a stimulating proclaim, they know that there is a way to make things that is not the way to make things. No doubt that the basis of this actitud is nothing but the capacity of the Human being to send and receive figures and words from plural points of view. Which requires, in unavoidable correspondence, the free decision to break all the aesthetic and maybe ethic conventions. “Nulla ethica, sine esthetica”, as the great José María Valverde liked to remember.
The metalic ants, the pluridimensional cubes, the marble helices, the carborundum engravings, the unsuspicious photographies, the soundtracks, the fictional croniques and other creations kept in this amazing drawer, are a real bibliographic jewel.
Manuel Pecellín Lancharro
La Raya, intitulada como una evocación al “pensamiento expansivo”, es seguramente la obra gráfica más rotunda jamás compuesta y publicada en Extremadura.
Discurriendo alternativamente entre las creaciones abstractas y las figurativas, los autores adoptan una actitud provocadora, dispuestos a transgredir los límites habituales, jugando con las antítesis y paradojas, tanto a nivel iconográfico como literal. Y es que, según estimulante proclama, ellos saben que hay una forma de hacer las cosas que no es la forma de hacer las cosas. Sin duda, el fundamento de esta actitud no es sino la capacidad del ser humano para emitir y percibir figuras y palabras desde muy plurales puntos de vista. Lo que demandada, en ineludible correspondencia, la libre decisión de romper con todos los convencionalismos estéticos y tal vez éticos. “Nulla ethica, sine esthetica”, según gustaba recordar el gran José María Valverde.
Las hormigas metálicas, los cubos pluridimensionales, las hélices marmóreas, los grabados en carborundo, las fotografías insospechadas, las bandas sonoras, las crónicas ficticias y demás creaciones que guardan este sorprendente cajón, constituyen una verdadera joya bibliográfica.
Manuel Pecellín Lancharro
