LENZI'S ON YOUNG ART IN MADRID
The result of the selection proposed to represent Circuitos de Artes Plásticas 2024, one of the main emerging art projects of the Community of Madrid, has had in this edition a Latin American protagonist in the curatorial work of Isabella Lenzi (São Paulo, Brazil, 1986). The show, named Caja de resonancia (Resonance Box) for the occasion, reviews, through the ten winning works of this annual call, some of the recurring themes and matrixes in the under-35 generation of artists linked to Madrid.
Following the concept of the exhibition's title, the Sala de Arte Joven space becomes an amplifier of these concerns and their transformation as an aesthetic vehicle in a framework of uncertainty and instability. Among the main factors, certain critical aspects of immediacy and the unbridled advance of technologies seem to emerge as fundamental axes, in addition to those shared with the curatorial lines related to immigration, climate or geopolitical conflicts and their effects. All of them are focused on the impact of Madrid, a geographical framework that delimits the idiosyncrasy of global issues from a local point of view.
The works of Paloma de la Cruz, Juan Couder, Lorenzo García-Andrade, Raquel G. Ibáñez, Luis Lecea Romera, Ana Beatriz Lozano Sinausía, Yosi Negrín, Federico Pozuelo and Javier Ruiz del Río, Pilar del Puerto and Alfonso Valero Amores debate, from different languages and materials in their media and approaches, between the digital, the ephemeral and the tangible to represent that look at the world and the conceptual essence of its object.
Circuitos 2024. Caja de resonancia can be seen until February 2 at the Sala de Arte Joven, Avenida de América, 13, Madrid (Spain).