Pedro G. Romero

Habitación
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Exposición Pedro G. Romero. Foto: Sue Ponce

Exposición Pedro G. Romero. Fotografía: Sue Ponce

CURATED BY: ÁNGEL CALVO ULLOA & NURIA ENGUITA

Archivo F.X by the artist Pedro G. Romero (Huelva, 1964) is a collection of documentation “in construction”, comprising more than one thousand images and files that are, on one hand, an archive of images of anticlerical political iconoclasm in Spain and also, on the other, and cast under the same light, a mirror held up to the radical projects of the modern vanguard from Malevich to Rothko, from Dada to the Situationists.

Since the late nineties, the Archivo F.X. has been working with the psycho-technical chekas that Alphonse Laurencic designed and built for the Military Information Service of the Spanish Republican army between 1937 and 1939, in churches and convents confiscated from the Catholic Church. To a certain degree the opposing fields of meaning in operation in Archivo F.X. find a natural form here: aesthetics, learning and violence come together as experimental art and as religious profanation.

At the core of the exhibition are life-size reconstructions of three psycho-technical chekas from Barcelona and Valencia. They are surrounded by all sorts of documentary works, photos, films, artworks, bibliography and architectural designs.

The project explores such paradoxical historical events as the acts of the Republican rear-guard during the Spanish Civil War, the contradictions between good and violence in the radical modern project, the deceptions of the psychotropic expansion of perception, the necessary crises of utopian vision and the very limits of art.

 

ACTIVITIES

Visits: Saturdays 12:30 and Sundays 18:30
21 June 19:00 Presentation of Diskocheka project by Álvaro Perdices with Pedro G. Romero /
12 July 19:00 Presentation of Thais, tercer acto project by Lola Lasurt with Pedro G. Romero

 

PUBLICATION

Habitación. El Archivo F.X. y las Chekas de Laurencic en el convento de Santa Úrsula de Valencia y las Iglesias de las calles Vallmajor y Zaragoza de Barcelona, is the first edition of an anthological series of the works developed over the years by Archivo F.X. It contains interviews by Nuria Enguita and Ángel Calvo Ulloa with Pedro G. Romero and texts by Juan José Lahuerta, Quico Rivas, Fernando R. de la Flor, Marisa García Vergara, Slavoj Žižek and Boris Groys, among others. Published by: CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Centre Cultural La Nau, Universitat de València y Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC)

Exposición Pedro G. Romero. Fotografías: Roberto Ruiz y Sue Ponce

Es artista, editor e investigador, trabaja principalmente en dos proyectos: Archivo F.X, un extenso archivo de material visual sobre la iconoclastia anti-sacramental en España entre 1845 y 1945, y Máquina P.H., una serie de proyectos sobre flamenco. Es miembro del equipo de arteypensamiento en la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, donde ha coordinado S.I., Sevilla Imaginada.

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