Nono Bandera at Espacio Mínimo Gallery

Nono Bandera
Zweifel
Exhibition view

Nono Bandera at Espacio Mínimo Gallery Nono Bandera has chosen Zweifel as the title for his sixth solo show at Espacio Mínimo, Madrid. Zweifel, a German word meaning uncertainty, was the first word that the artist heard when he arrived to Berlin

From March 17th to May 7th, 2011

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Source: Espacio Mínimo Gallery

Since long time ago, three notebooks or journals of drawing accompany his travels: one finished with notes containing ideas of the last two or three years, a second one already started and a last one in blank. From these notebooks emerges a working procedure where new stages and previous ones communicate fluently. The resultant creative process, based on self quotation from the archive of uncompleted ideas that are the notebooks, define the leit motif of the project: a residual product, the leftovers of experiences and discoveries, a compilation of memory remains.

Like in previous projects, Nono Bandera begins from pre existing works of art –in this case, academic drawingsfrom the 50s- altering and re signifying deliberately its images. The creative process of Zweifel takes up again astylistic resource suggested in his series This & That (2003), based on expanded painting where the traditional linearreading of the canvas is fractured. In this case, the artist renounces to the frame as the limit that contains the work ofart, transferring his personal imaginary to the walls in a game close to mural painting. Thus, the wall, transformed in ascenario, conditions the interpretation of the work hanged and places it in a determined context. The installationproduces a matryoshka effect: the image drew on the wall works like a structure that accommodate the drawing that,at the same time, contains the artist intervention.

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