Martin Soto Climent 'Laberintome'_T293 Gallery

In all the arts there is a physical part that can no longer be regarded and treated as before, and that can not be subtracted to the interventions of modern knowledge and power. Neither the matter nor space nor time are no longer, for twenty years here, what had always been. It is expected that news of a similar scale to transform the entire artistic technique, and thus act on the same invention, to perhaps change the very notion of art beautifully.

Paul Valéry, Pièces sur l'art, Paris, (La Conquête de l'ubiquity)

  
A personal history or a common one can be told in many ways. Can be imagined as a linear path, aiming straight at a target. Or is it a spiral that rotates around itself. Unabated. Always the same and always different. But when a track is deleted, hidden, concealed then becomes like a maze that is difficult to disentangle. ‘Laberintome’ is the second Martin Soto Climent solo-show at T293 gallery .

The Mexican artist presents a series of artworks realized during a residence in Naples. The exhibition takes place as a labyrinth, shape of the history of his Country. Starting point of his reflection is an obscure event: the massacre of students during a demonstration at the Olympics in '68 in the Plaza of Three Cultures in Mexico City.

The gallery space is transformed into the mirror that reflects the artist's memories, emotions and unites distant places and different times. The exhibition starts on the ground floor in a new space, opened by T293 on this occasion, which directly faces away from the streets, next to the entrance of the tunnel. Inside this space is shown Marmoles oniricos an installation made of marble blocks tied together with tights for woman. The artist elaborates a dialectic tension that is based on opposing elements. The series of work takes the viewer into a rarefied dimension where objects are furthered in their meaning. On the first floor, the texture of the labyrinth proceeds through the combination of elements contrasting to each other, but complementary.

Blind feathers (always fall), a Venetian blind that is wrapped in a coil placed on the floor and Silent Rider, an ironing board and a pair of stockings hanging from the ceiling by a thread. The lightness and gravity are opposed elements related in this pair. The host installation, created by a mirrored surface upon which sit a duvet and other materials is rather analogous to Tres Dardos extraviados, a work on which three feathers are stuck on the sole of a slipper. The present and the past are in a relationship of constant tension. Following in the shadows of my wispers, a sculpture created by a pair of boots that leap out of her stockings and Estancias de polvo an installation created by an undergarment that includes a plate suspended in the middle of the room through a wire. In the final room is exposed Blind window, an homage to Marcel Duchamp's Etant donnés: a darkened room from a Venetian plastic which you can see a structure of the skeleton of a chair, some chess, a photograph and other objects not directly perceptible to the eye of the beholder. Martin Soto Climent performs a kind of self-analysis of the creative act and through this process discovers the ultimate possibilities of art making.

Martin Soto Climent  ‘Laberintome’
T293 Gallery
via dei Tribunali, 293 - Naples, Italy
info: +39 081 295 882
email: info@t293.it
website: www.t293.it

from 7 October to 14 November 2009

Images: Installation views
Photos: Danilo Donzelli
Courtesy: T293 Gallery 

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