Credits
Without Matrix
Graphics, Digital Impression and Interactives
Artists
R.G. Bianchi, Montse Carreño, Bernat Cisneros, Anna Marin, Joan Morey, Jessie Morin-Davy, Eufrina Ramis, Carmen Romero, lbon Senz de Olazagoitia
Exhibition Coordinators:
Teresa Blanch, Martí Peran, Alicia Vela and Antònia Vilà
Exhibition Opening:
Thursday 23 january 2001, 19,30 h
Place: Capilla del Antiguo Hospital de la Santa Creu, calle Hospital, 56. 08001 Barcelona. Tel. 93 442 7171
Time: de martes a sábado, de 12 a 14 h. y de 16 a 20 h. Domingo, d'11 a 14 h. Lunes cerrado.
The exhibition Without Matrix is the result of two years work on the postgraduate course Graphic Work Today: From the Printed to the Digital Impression run by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. This postgraduate course was the Faculty of Fine Arts' contribution to the PA & R programme European Printmaking Art & Research, a project that has enabled collaboration with different centres around Europe.
The course, whose outcomes can be studied in more detail on the specially produced CD-ROM, aimed to explore the phenomenon of printed art today, a discipline which is increasingly being displaced from the paper format and that is entering into intense dialogues with new technological media. From this perspective, Without Matrix is a deliberately ambiguous expression. On the one hand it refers to that broadening of the territory of impression beyond the matrix of traditional printmaking, yet it is clear that the exhibition also wishes to highlight the exposed conditions within which contemporary work is being developed.
Alongside the exhibition Without Matrix there will be a series of round table debates involving the young artists whose work is being presented, together with other more experienced artists more directly linked to the area of visual and plastic research being revealed by new technologies. During the three sessions Alicia Vela, Antònia Vilà and Martí Peran, the exhibition coordinators, will steer the debates whose aim is also to present the artists' lines of research.
The exhibition catalogue was presented as part of this meeting.