THINGS OF LOVE
Antonio Ortuño
October 13 – 27
Opening reception Saturday Oct. 13 6pm
Spanish video artist Antonio Ortuño exhibits his new work
"Things of love" at Local Project gallery in Queens, New York.
With his new project "Things of Love", Antonio Ortuño delves into the hidden side of love, the part we always forget when we mention this beautiful word. The show opens on October 13th with a reception and a performance by Elisabeth Devlin at Local Project.
Love, but also fear, pleasure, anguish, happiness, anxiety and doubt, among other emotions,
all make a part of Ortuño's work.
He hopes in some way to de-dramatize the situations and eliminate their aggressive tone, so that the viewer doesn't feel them directly, but rather reflects and understands their meaning, the reason for their existence.
Antonio Ortuño expresses himself through single-channel video, video installation, and video combined with art. These are empathetic tools that help him better reflect circumstances that are otherwise hard to assimilate or understand, sometimes due to our own ignorance about ourselves, given the little interest we have in introspection or, simply, due to the fear of knowing how we actually are in our most intimate beings. Using a video installation, two videos, two series of boxes and performance (the day of the opening), Ortuño wants to reveal the spectacle that is jealousy, rejection, lack of communication and abandonment-feelings that make up part of the dark side of the heart.
LOVE: strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties.
When you find love, or rather, when we fall in love, everything is wonderful, life takes on a new color, you hear birds chirping, you take note of things never notcied before, you greet your enemies, you give up your seat on the subway with a big smile; to conclude, you see everything from a different point of view.
But there is another side to love that we do not like as much, one could be so in love and have different sentiments such as feeling abandoned by a loved one, jealousy, neglect, lack of communication and/or understanding, etc. For these reasons this project seeks to demonstrate some of the different sentiments that are tied to love.
Cuando se encuentra el amor o mejor dicho nos enamoramos, todo es maravilloso, ves la vida de otro color, escuchas los pajaros piar, cosa que no te das ni cuenta otras veces, saludas a tus enemigos, cedes tu asiento en el metro con una gran sonrisa; conclusión, que todo lo ves desde otro punto de vista muy diferente al habitual. Pero hay otra cara del Amor que no nos gusta tanto, uno puede estar muy enamorado y sentir unos sentimientos muy diferentes como, el abandono de la persona amada, los celos, el rechazo, la incomunicación, la incomprensión, etc. Por eso que esta muestra quiere reflejar algunos de los diferentes sentimientos que lleva el Amor.
October 13-27
open in the week to 5 pm at 9 pm.
With the support of the Consulate General Of Spain in New York.
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