The artist presents 5 series of photographs, projected as transparencies, that travel through the ascents and descents of the banks of a riverbed, with the artist’s city as a backdrop. They constitute the text over which he intends to allegorically introduce us into another crossing, from that which alludes to his position to that in which a spectator appears.

Pep Agut (Terrassa, Spain, 1961) Lives and Works in Terrassa. Agut has had solo and group exhibitions in large events such as the Venice Biennale, the Sidney Biennale or Prospekt, as well as in museums such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art or the MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, among others. He has coordinated and participated in seminars, conferences and debates about art and his work is represented in well-known private and public collections.

Downsbrough’s work reflects on the traditional use of space and of language as an object. Through displacements, discontinuities and ruptures, he generates a dialogue between space and the public. His video and photographic work corresponds to the exploration of how space is structured and organized. His photographs emerged as a documental register of his investigations with vertical metal tubes, capturing the negative spaces present in urban settings.

Peter Downsbrough (New Jersey, USA, 1940) has had individual shows in the US and in Europe at: MAMCO (Geneva), SMAK, Stedelijk Museum van Aktuele Kunst (Gent), Kent Institute of Art and Design (Canterbury), Musée d’Art Contemporain (Lyon) or the Palais de Beaux-Arts (Brussels). He works with galleries such as Àngels Barcelona, Barcelona, (2008), Erna Hecey (Brussels) or Barbara Krakow Gallery (Boston). He was selected for the Venice Biennale (2006). In addition, he has participated in group exhibitions in MNCARS (Madrid), MOCA (Los Angeles) or the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), among others. His public work can be seen in several European cities, such as Rennes, Warsaw, Lodz, Brussels or Lyon.

In his work, Fogarasi systematically explores the development and transformation of urban spaces. Included among the pieces shown in this exhibition is a series of collages titled, Barcelona Sights. The series shows different logos that pertain to unique buildings from the city’s architecture. Taken out of context, with no guide, the almost empty image that remains “follows the form in which information is becoming condensed and acquiring the mere condition of sign through the relatively new and growing phenomenon of creating a brand”.(*) Continuing with this reflection on the use of the brand is the video: Public Brands-La France. Using modern icons of the city, it creates a contemporary map of France.
* Hock, Beata. Andreas Fogarasi. Informació. Exit Express 37. Junio-Septiembre 2008. p. 50. Sobre la serie Dusseldord Sights (Architecture)

Andreas Fogarasi (Vienna, Austria, 1977) Lives and works in Vienna. He was awarded the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale (2007) for his project in the Hungarian Pavilion. He has shown in the gallery Georg Kargl Box and in the MAK, Vienna, as well as in Grazer Kunstvereinen, Gratz, the Ernst Múzeum, Budapest or MNCARS, Madrid (in the program Cine y casi cine), among others.

Cretto is a monumental sculpture by the painter Alberto Burri, constructed in the ’80s yet left unfinished. It covers the ruins of Gibellina (Sicily), a town destroyed by an earthquake. Cretto is a giant cement labyrinth, a network of cracks converted into the streets of a strange town. To document the site, Zarka follows the wanderings of a person blinded by a strange, red, brick helmet, a reduced model of a sculpture by the artist. In addition, the artist shows two photographs from a series begun in 2001: Les formes du repos (The forms of repose). Zarka collects cement objects lost in nature or deserted areas, and their geometric forms, more or less recognizable, always make us wonder about their use. They are isolated, in waiting, in repose. They suggest a movement that doesn’t take place, they are like fossils of movement.

Raphäel Zarka (Montpellier, France, 1977) Lives and works in Paris. He has recently shown in the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Palais de Tokio, Paris, École Regionale Des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Galeria Michel Rein, Paris. He has taken part in group shows at Le Plateau FRAC (Ille de France) and the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon (France). In 2007 he was selected for the Lyon Biennale (France).