The Gabarron Foundation Announces SPAIN IN THE CITY Exhibit

The Gabarron Foundation - Carriage House Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition SPAIN IN THE CITY, as part of our program for The Armory Show 2010. This show will be exhibited at our center in New York, The Gabarron Foundation - Carriage House Center for the Arts, from March 5th to April 30th, 2010.

Participating artists: Pedro Barbeito (1969, La Coruña, Galicia); Itziar Barrio (1976, Bilbao, Pais Vasco); Anton Cabaleiro (1977, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia); Juanli Carrión (1982, Yecla, Murcia); Jacobo Castellano (1976, Jaen, Andalucia); Hugo Fontela (1986, Grado, Asturias); Javier Martín de Frutos (1979, Madrid-Castilla León); y Verónica Peña (1980, Zamora, Castilla-León).
In addition to the booth which we will have in Armory Show, our wish is to take advantage of this excellent opportunity in order to promote the works of young Spanish artists based in New York. Their strength, determination and the quality of their works will be displayed at this exhibition. The opening reception is included in the Armory VIP Program, and it will open only for RSVP card holders. The exhibition will open to the public on March 5th, 2010.

The main idea of this exhibition is to link different artistic expressions, languages and backgrounds, thus illustrating the plurality of these artists. The most talented young Spanish Art will have an important platform on which to be promoted. A catalogue will include all the pieces and brief information on the artists, as well as some information about our institution.

Spain in the City aims to be like the New York metropolis, a plural and heterogeneous exhibition, where diverse artistic languages and ways of perceiving the same reality from different perspectives and sensibilities, come together in the same geographical starting point: the city of New York. Thus, the Spanish artists that take part in this exhibition represent somehow what this city is, but also their works bear witness to the remarkable creativity and excellent development of Spanish art beyond its borders.

This exhibition will hold paintings of Pedro Barbeito, where he links digital image and painting, and Hugo Fontela, where a dead palm tree on a quiet beach is the central character. Itziar Barrio through installation, video and photography will make us think about our obsession to fit into society standards and uses new signs and symbols taken from marketing and publicity. The idea of space and how we perceive it, is related with Juanli Carrion's photograph boxes and the works of Javier Martin de Frutos. Although their languages are very different, both describe the New York landscape. Verónica Peña and Anton Cabaleiro's videos, narrate the personal perception of their lives and experiences in the city. Finally, Jacobo Castellano takes us to the places where he lived and found materials with which he made his bright pieces, opening a dialogue between them and the space around.

The Gabarron Foundation
We are a non-profit institution and an exclusive international center specialized in art exhibitions and other cultural activities. We are moving forward to combine the fact of being a platform aiming to foster Spanish culture within the United States and at the same time providing a space for exchange and understanding between both cultures, and consolidating the ties which bond us.