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EL PUNTO CIEGO.
Spanish Art of the 90`s
November 7th - January 23rd 1999
EL PUNTO CIEGO - selected works
Short after the death of General Franco in 1975, the international artistic scene paid special attention to what occurred in Spain. In just a few years the international circuit found itself virtually invaded by Spanish presence.
However, and after quite a few years, the normalisation of the democratic situation in Spain and its full political and administrative incorporation into the Western European context caused the interest in the novelty, as such, to decrease and little by little, Spain has once again been converted into al "dead angle".

This "vanishing", this fact that the Spanish artistic scene has disappeared from the spotlights of international attention, is what the chosen title – El Punto Ciego. – The Blind Point – is meant to reflect first and foremost.

At the same time the denuding of the "blind point" constitutes both a critical exercise of analysis and a dismantling of the powers of representation in current societies, and Spanish artists certainly possess a specific confluence of schools which capacitates them to incorporate themselves, with their own values, into this international, multicultural program of critical analysis of the controversies over representation in current societies, relating naturally to the new critical directions of current narrative photography, video installations and all the investigations directed at critically dismantling the processes of fictional construction of identities. Thanks to that mechanism, they can easily enter into dialogue with both the premises constituting the principal entrances into the international agenda and with the profound heritage of their own cultural traditionat the same time.

Artists: Ana Laura Alaez, Pep Agut, Txomin Badiola, Jordi Colomer, Salomé Cuesta, Dora Garcia, Pello Irazu, José Maldonado, Itziar Okariz, Montserat Soto und Eulalia Valldosera

Curator: José Louis Brea
 
The exhibition was sponsored by:
Tiroler Sparkasse, Stadt Innsbruck, Land Tirol, Bundeskanzleramt Sektion Kunst,
Tourismusverband Innsbruck-Igls, Tirol Werbung, Net4You, Spanische Botschaft Wien.
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