Galeria SENDA presents Anthony Goicolea for LOOP Festival 2022
Galeria SENDA is pleased to present Anthony Goicolea in this year's edition of the LOOP Festival in Barcelona, from the 8th of November till the 20th of November 2022.
LOOP is a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image. Founded in 2003, since its creation it offers a specialized audience a curated selection of video-related contents from challenging perspectives. An international community of artists, curators, gallerists, collectors and institution directors, team up to develop projects, which aim at exploring the capacities of video and film in today’s contemporary art discourses.
With Anthony’s Goicolea silent film “Don’t Make a Scene” (2020), inspired by the impressions of isolation, he invites us to see “the portrait of an artist in quarantine”. Goicolea himself acts as the self given title “Master of Ceremonies or Host”. The shown figures, an assembled cast of over 60 actors, where drawn daily from life on transparent paper, during six weeks of isolation. The drawings, stacked together, are like pages in a book and turned one by one by the artist. The paper allows the characters in the drawings to overlap and interact with each other to create a loose knit narrative of anxiety, hope, grief, boredom, gratitude, anger, frustration, and fear.
About the artist
Anthony Goicolea is an American born artist of Cuban origin. Known internationally for his photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptural installations, and films, the artist works across mediums creating a self-referential visual language that explores identity, migration and transition, displacement and alienation, as well as assimilation and group dynamics. He utilizes the architecture of the human body and constructed landscapes to create worlds predicated on fantasy but based in reality.
Anthony Goicolea, photograph by @hadar_pitchon
Still from “Don’t Make a Scene” (2020)
"Master of Ceremonies" The artist, behind the scenes of "Don't make a scene" (2020)
