We are happy to announce our new exhibition, ‘6’, by Cristina Stolhe and Andrés Izquierdo.
The proposal, a result of their artistic residencies at Ses12Naus, combines the fields of experience of both artists: image and object. In this joint work, they explore the deeper layers of life in Ibiza, addressing themes such as absence, history, and night—not from a recognizable perspective, but from a more intimate and almost secretive one.
Inauguración: Saturday 12/10 from 6 PM to 9.30 PM
Paul Hauptmeier and Martin Recker are part of a generation of artists who experiment with multimedia and technologies to spark reflection on some of the relevant issues of our time. In their practice, they simplify complex theoretical concepts with a striking visual and auditory experience.
During their residency at Ses12naus, the artists have focused their research on issues related to water in the context of Ibiza. Their interest lies in exploring the complex feedback mechanisms between the sea and freshwater resources, sonically mapping diverse aquatic ecosystems, as well as the modern and historical infrastructure of the island.
Based on this research, Hauptmeier | Recker have created HYDRO LOGICAL, a site-specific installation for La Carpintería, where, through the prism of Ibiza, reflect on the complexities of our relationship with our most important resource.
`We are all burnt by ultraviolet rays. We all contain water in about the same ratio as Earth does, and salt water in the same ratio that the oceans do. We are poems about the hyperobject Earth´. Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World.
Times: Tuesday to Friday. 8pm - 11pm.
Paul Hauptmeier (1993) and Martin Recker (1991) are composers working in the fields of composition, sound, and multimedia art. Since more than fifteen years they have been working together as an artist duo named Hauptmeier | Recker. The duo is engaged in diverse domains, spanning opera, live electronic performance, radio art, electroacoustic music, and site-specific installation. They are co-founders and board members of ZiMMT – Center for Immersive Media Art, Music and Technology (Germany). For ZiMMT, they curate events and conduct research in the field of spatial audio. Since 2022, the duo teaches sound art at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art (Germany).
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Supported by: OD Hotels, Servicios Palau and Bon Lloc.
More than 300 students participated in the educational program around the exhibition PROTEIN. Within the framework of the installation by Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller, this was developed in collaboration with schools on the island, with visits and creative workshops based on the concepts of eco-dependency and interdependence. A mediation action aligned with the Foundation's objective of inspiring local audiences and motivating them to explore, participate in and learn from the arts. It has been a very enriching experience and encourages us to continue working and deepening in the area of artistic education.
During their residence on Ibiza, Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller collaborated with Kris Latocha to create the poster that is part of PROTEIN exhibition, in which they borrow the Ants logo—a party that takes place in Ushuaïa, one of the biggest clubs on the island—to devise a design that manages to conflate bugs, club culture and real estate. The poster includes the text about PROTEIN written by the artists.
If visitors are customers, a party is business, a home for sale is real estate and ants in real estate are a pest. As this and other histories show us, our perception of a thing is entirely circumstantial. If food becomes scarce for example, bugs will become protein.
Nina Beier, Simon Dybbroe Møller, excerpt of PROTEIN, julio 2023
Last 20th of July, the foundation inagurated it´s 2023 summeer artist´residency. PROTEIN, is a collaborative project by Danish artists Nina Beier and Simon Dybbroe Møller, curated by Elise Lammer. The show was developed fo La Carpinteria, and is currently on show, till the 21st of October.
Animals and machines are recurring motifs in both Simon Dybbroe Møller and Nina Beier’s work. Each of their respective practices taps into the mutable tropes found in mass-produced goods traveling between different geo-political realities.
In PROTEIN, the exhibition they are currently developing for our current exhibition space: La Carpinteria, the world of the commodity is united with that of animals/machines. Departing from the widespread assumption that the human being is better than the animal and other than the machine, the artists have been investigating Ibiza’s insects and cultural life to produce a new collaborative installation featuring a large colony of solar-powered mechanical bugs.
During this talk, the artists discussed the muddled reality of the island’s varied, contrasting and coexisting cultural and natural features, and shared with the audience some aspects of their individual artistic approaches, as well as the collaborative nature of the project as the result of their residency on Ibiza between the months of April and July 2023.
With the purpose of inspiring and involving the local community, Ses12naus launched a series of open studio days and invited art enthusiasts and curious minds to experience first-hand the creative process of Andrés Izquierdo. In the context of his residency on Ibiza, these activities fostered a unique connection between the public, the artist and his practice, to stimulate participation and learning through art.
Upon opening the doors of his studio, Izquierdo invited attendees to witness the evolution of his artistic project in dialogue with the island, offering a vision of the fusion of fictions, myths, and metaphysical questions that pervade his very personal works.
July 13 and 14, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
La Carpintería. Riu Arno 58 (Can Bufi)
OPEN STUDIO
Andrés Izquierdo (Madrid 1993) presents a new sculptural ensemble produced mostly in earthy and argillaceous compounds, using this materiality to speak of the substrate as a transitional place and as a life generator of a cyclical nature.
The sculptures produced by Izquierdo interact with walls and pedestals in the same way that organisms do with the substrate: emerging or being ejected to the surface. Alluding to the earth as an entity that begins by spitting us out and ends up swallowing us, Izquierdo works with shells, flowers or archaeological artifacts such as the two reproductions of Punic coins acquired in the store of the Puig Des Molins Ethnographic Museum.
This body of work displays a space of transformation and transit: a wall that wants to be a moon, the metamorphosis of a person into a snail, the passage from day to night, or the hybrid nature of Icarus.
This portrayal of that which transforms constitutes the intention of infusing the sculptures with an energy or a potentiality.
In addition to the use of the lyrical as a strategy to imprint energy in the objects, Izquierdo employs attributes related to infinite and expansion found in figures such as the spiral and the vortex or in the stellated space that we can find represented on the internal surface of the eye, in the disc of the withered daisy or over Icarus’ body.
We closed the spring program OUR SOUL IS AIR with its second chapter: Utopia come true? bringing together those interested in knowing and delving into the legacy of club culture. A culture that has influenced not only the island of Ibiza but also the international scene, becoming a space of expression, freedom and, as highlighted by the various guests, as a countercultural movement and origin of political action.
On Friday, May 5th, our meeting and exhibition space La Carpintería received more than a hundred guests who participated very actively in the program of activities planned. The afternoon started with the round table Alternative Landscape, where the numerous ramifications that club culture has had for and from this island were exposed and discussed, as well as the idea that artistic creation and cultural movements generate profound changes at a social level that endure today. In addition, the attendees took part in the innovative performative playlist initiative, which gave rise to moments of emotional interaction and communion among the attendees from that common idea of real utopia in the vernacular that underlined this program.
OUR SOUL IS AIR closed on Saturday May 6 with the family workshop Carrier Wave: Dancing and Laughing with the Wind, developed between fabrics of different textures that generated small refuges and imagined utopian spaces.
Thanks to the sponsors of OUR SOUL IS AIR: Kombucha Vedrà and SupernaturalWines.
Next Friday 5th and Saturday 6th of May Utopia Come True? the second chapter of our spring public programme OUR SOUL IS AIR will take place. Following the idea of the wind as a disseminator of information/seeds/sounds and using art as a means of investigation, different local personalities and guests will meet at La Carpintería to explore club culture, its historical legacy from popular culture to the morphology of the spaces, its economic/social imprint, its influence in and from Ibiza and its future.
Curated by Elise Lammer in collaboration with Andrea Rodríguez Novoa.
La Carpintería. Río Arno, 58 (Can Bufí)