Feel inspired by our programme for this season.
Earth: A Retrospective. El Ultimo Grito & Per Amor A L’Art Collection
July 7, 2022–June 4, 2023
Earth: A Retrospective showcases the Per Amor a l’Art Collection as a “creative geography”—an editing concept developed by Lev Kuleshov, designed to collide shots from different locations to generate a seamless new landscape where the narrative elapses. With this project, El Ultimo Grito is looking back at Earth from an undetermined point in a future space-time. A point in which our memory of Earth is broken and our only link back to it is a collection of images where signified and signifier become blurred; where our gaze romanticises them into narratives seeking to find meaning beyond their historicity.
Featuring: Nobuyoshi Araki, EUG-Arno Mathies, Bleda y Rosa, Iñaki Bonillas, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Joan Cardells, Tacita Dean, Koji Enokura, Elger Esser, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Inma Femenía, Paul Graham, Jonas Mekas, Mathieu Mercier, Matt Mullican, Thomas Ruff, Armando Salas Portugal, Aaron Siskind, among others.
Framed within World Design Capital Valencia 2022.
V.C.R.T.: An Artist’s Book by Thomas Hirschhorn
Launched on May 13, 2022
This publication is an accumulation of writings, drawings, letters, emails and notes, which have accompanied Thomas Hirschhorn’s work in parallel since the beginning. This form of expression has been a pivotal tool throughout his career. Tracing the past 32 years (1989-2021), this artist’s book reveals initial sketches of his projects, private correspondence and critical analysis around his own artworks or exhibitions. All the selected content in “V.C.R.T.” was never yet published in its original language and its original form. In addition, a selection of 24 pages of this book has been translated into Spanish for the first time.
V.C.R.T. is an original concept initiated by Sandra Guimarães, artistic director of Bombas Gens Centre d’Art (València, Spain) and published in co-edition with La Fábrica (Madrid, Spain).
V.C.R.T. can be purchased writing to info [at] bombasgens.com.
Shigeru Ōnishi: In Search of Meta-Infinite
April 4, 2022–January 22, 2023. Curated by Vicente Todolí.
In Search of Meta-Infinite presents the extraordinary work of Japanese artist Shigeru Ōnishi (Takahashi, 1928–1994) showing both his photographic and pictorial work, this is Onishi’s first major exhibition in Europe. It includes a series of photographs from the Per Amor a l’Art Collection and a wide selection of large-scale abstract paintings shown for the first-time outside Japan.
In his photographs, Shigeru Ōnishi endeavoured to transcend the boundaries of time and space: rather than a snapshot of one moment, his photographs present multiple moments brought together in a single image. In the late 1950s he abandoned photographic practice altogether to concentrate on abstract ink painting.
In collaboration with Foam (Amsterdam) and MEM (Tokyo). With the support of Japan Foundation.
Sculpting Reality: Per Amor A L’Art Collection at PHotoESPAÑA (Madrid)
June 1–September 4, 2022 at Círculo de Bellas Artes / Casa de América (Madrid)
Sculpting Reality is an ambitious programme framed within PHotoESPAÑA, the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts. Curated by Sandra Guimarães and Vicent Todolí—guest curators of the 25th edition of the Festival– this programme explores documentary-style photography based on research into the holdings of the Per Amor a l’Art Collection.
With more than 500 works by 29 artists, the show features pioneering American photographers like Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Louis Faurer, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Tod Papageorge, Anthony Hernandez, Ian Wallace, Bleda y Rosa, Paul Graham, among others.
Fundació Per Amor a l’Art
The Fundació Per Amor a l’Art is a private and familiar foundation that deploys its artistic, social and research-driven activity in the restored former factory of Bombas Gens, in Valencia (Spain). The Foundation develops the artistic domain through the Bombas Gens Art Centre. The Social Area fosters the social integration mission of the Foundation, focusing on the support of underage children in risk of exclusion and people with acquired brain injuries. Moreover, the Wilson Team promotes the research and divulgation of rare diseases, in particular the Wilson’s disease.
