20180927_MUN_PresentationTheMemoryTracer

The artist Aitor Ortiz has presented this Thursday the exhibition The report tracera sample produced by the Museo Universidad de Navarra that will be on display on floor -1 from this Friday until March 3. Of the 140 works that make up the sample, more than 80 have never been exhibited before. This is the case of project Linkwhich could be seen for the first time and which includes the music of the composer Gorka Alda, created for the sample.

In his presentation to the media, the artist, accompanied by Valentín Vallhonrat, director artistic of the Museum, explained that in the sample architecture is the starting point. "It is architectural photography but not from the historicist point of view, which tries to document the buildings. In this case there are no references or data. I am not interested in commenting on those buildings, but rather in generating, with their decontextualization, a narrative."

In this sense, he pointed out that precisely this absence of data "speaks of the relationship with architecture in its pure state. It speaks of structure, density, emptiness, transparency, opacity... All the qualities inherent to architecture".

Thus, La report trazadora does not pretend to be an anthological sample , but brings together pieces from the mid-nineties to the present. The author's series are not presented as isolated elements or in a chronological order, but as a coherent whole that reflects, in works based on very different strategies and supports, on a series of fundamental themes related to the ambiguities of representation and the mechanisms for its interpretation.

Ortiz also recalled that in his visit to the Museum, the Collection of photographs of public works of the nineteenth century evoked many memories "of significant places of my childhood". Specifically, the albums of the Altos Hornos de Vizcaya.

In this sense, Vallhonrat underlined the originality, solidity and seriousness of Ortiz's work , and pointed out that in this project, Ortiz "has reflected on issues of the Collection that were present in his work".

This Friday 28, at 7:00 p.m., the artist will give a masterclass at classroom 1, followed by the opening of the rooms on floor -1. Other activities related to sample have also been programmed. On Saturday, starting at 10:30 a.m., there will be a children's workshop Once upon a time my photobased on exhibition; and on Friday, November 16, at 12:30 p.m., the photographer Martí Llorens will give a workshop lecture entitled Photographing: seeing, understanding and relating with the world through a technique.