To Dream, to Collect
Size
29.7 x 42.9 x 20 cm
11.69 x 17 x 7.87 in
Reference
b1386f61
Year
2017
Medium
Drawings & Works on Paper
Category
Medium: mixed on paper
About the Artists
2018 , Spain
Born in Artà, Mallorca, 1981
In the work of Damià Vives drawing is an essential tool. Always interpreted as a public register made up of lines that are created at random, the drawing stems from a real situation in which the artist is immersed.
The routes that Vives follows each day by public or private transport represent a source of the creation of images that he relates to the idea of performative cartography in his extensive series of drawings on paper Cartographies of interurban landscapes I (2011-14) that portray journeys on the underground, or in other works in which he has used various mediums such as Routines (2016) and Cartography of interurban routes I (2016).
Like a perfectly calibrated seismograph, the work of Damià Vives registers the small tremor and the great emotion that is behind movement, behind change. But it is as well to make better use of the image of the cardiogram, because Vives does not interfere in the life of others. His work has a very evident biographical component; it is capable of speaking out from the account of an individual life.
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About the Gallery
Address
Palma de Mallorca, Paseo Mallorca, 4 Bjs dcha
The current Fran Reus Gallery was born in 2015 and comes from the old, Galeria Fran Reus Centre d'Art, located in another location. From here, in a new location and with a totally new project, the Gallery reinvents itself with other proposals betting on emerging artists from the Island as well as from the rest of the Country and international ones. A new spa...