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Sin Título (de la serie Paisajes para un animal muerto)
Author: Iván Pérez (Tineo, Asturias, 1973)
Title: Untitle
Year: 2005
Technique: c-Print. Wooden frame and methacrylate / Edition 3 of 3
SIze: 120 x 148 cm
Serie: Paisajes para un animal muerto/ Landscapes for a dead animal
The work belongs to the “Landscapes for a dead animal” series that this young Asturian artist presented in 2007 in the gallery that represents him in Málaga. He later took it to Madrid’s 2010 International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO), where the piece was acquired by the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation. Habitually moved by experiences linked to everyday life, in themes that suggest critical readings of social and cultural aspects that usually go unnoticed, Iván Pérez combines the dual aspects of the photographic image, which seems to be what it is not and forces slow reflection on the compositional directions and motives, apparently peaceful.
In this series, Iván Pérez proposes a tourist tour of twelve science and natural history museums in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, as he also did in his parallel series “Warshow” with other museums and war memorials in Holland and the United Kingdom. This attitude of exploration and reflection was already his starting pretext in 2006 on the occasion of the AlNorte scholarship, which allowed him to visit several European theme parks for his Proyecto Paraíso (Paradise Project), exhibited in a gallery in Oviedo. In all his works, this furtive look fragments reality by making the spectator a participant in the expectation generated by large areas of consumption. What stands out is the spectacular nature of the composition and, at the same time, the wrongness of its design, establishing a conflict between the artificial and the natural. A project of conceptual importance that aims to position itself between the visitor and the attraction, highlighting the conflicts, excesses and errors in the use of the trompe l’oeil and the mixture between reality, nature and fiction.