Múltiples

Group Show

5 APRIL – 15 MAY 2024

The group exhibition Múltiples is open at Galería Vilaseco from 5 April to 15 May 2024. The show features limited editions by Alberto García-Alix, Álvaro Negro, Antonio Murado, Berta Salinas, Bernard Plosu, Carla Souto, Gloria García Lorca, Ignacio Llamas, José Pedro Croft, Leopoldo Novoa, Lois Patiño, Luis Díaz Díaz, Mayte Vieta, Manuel Vilariño, Nicolás Combarro, Nico Munuera, Ramón Masats, Regina Giménez, Rita Magalhães, Rodríguez-Méndez and Vari Caramés.

The multiple artwork is based on a concept reproduced several times. There is a game between the original and the copy, between the work of art and the wide range of limited editions.

With this exhibition, Vilaseco emphasises the importance of highlighting the value of editions in favour of more accessible collecting. We open dialogues around the work of different creators of different ages or discourses. 

Vilaseco Editions (2024)

A total of 25 photographs from the series Cajas de música (Music boxes) by Luis Díaz Díaz open the exhibition. Since 2008, the artist has been revisiting and documenting the festive spaces of the Galician countryside and their bandstands.

(…) Luis Díaz Díaz is systematically archiving part of this genealogy of popular culture. Through his project, we can reconstruct the cartography of small towns, campos da festa (spaces in villages where festivities are traditionally celebrated) and festival committees. We imagine the itineraries he has travelled since 2008, superimposing them on a territory of different coordinates, bandstands and processions. The gaps in this map do not speak to us of absences, but of new milestones yet to be recorded, inviting us too to be part. This is a living archive that tells us about constructions and their inside. We can understand their evolution but above all, it is an invitation to reconstruct everything that remains out of focus, in another time but in the same space (…). Antonio Giraldez

In the same room, we find four textile works by Berta Salinas made of fabrics of different colours and textures. They have been hung and stretched across the ceiling to form diverse forms of shelter, hence the title: Amparo. Each Amparo comes folded and stored in a square stainless steel box, accompanied by a paper publication and a text by contemporary art historian Ana G. Chouciño:

(…) Scraps of cotton, linen and silk; weights, wefts, sheens and mattes. Berta joins the fabrics two by two, they dialogue with each other invoking the old worn-out clothes and the gap generated between us and the tents. In this gap, we feel safe.

Six eyelets embroidered by her, tear each of the fabrics. Through the holes, the ropes penetrate: long, narrow strips, like the ones that held the aprons to our grandmothers’ waists, now hold the fabrics in the void. Their tension, variable and subject to our strength and our desires, modifies a warm and flexible surface: it can be a blank canvas, but also a shelter. (…)

Cabinet #20añosgaleríavilaseco
With this graphic work and photography cabinet, Vilaseco pays tribute to some artists who have been part of the gallery’s history throughout its 20 years of exhibition activity. In this way, the gallery consolidates its commitment to multiple editions.