Artistic remains
In the Zuloa essay, integrated into the geography of twenty-three artistic works, Xabier Gantzarain has made a personal career of contemporary art in Euskal Herria. There is also a historical tour, as it has completed a sociocultural vision of art in the last thirty years, covering interpretations of works of art from 1983 to 2016. In any case, the discourse has been structured around the conventions of the history of art: it has focused on the nearby history, no works have been presented in chronological order, no works of art have been linked in a single logical chain, different artistic disciplines have been realized (photography, installations and artistic interventions, video, sculpture, performance, painting, etc. ). Among the works of art there are well-known works that have jumped into the collective imaginary (e.g. Gernika by José Luis Zumeta); and there are less well known works (e.g. Nora Aurrekoetxea and Laura Ruiz Katalepsis). So it's tarnished the edges of the canon. Thanks to this abundance, the Zuloa essay offers a new image of contemporary art.
In the dissemination of art, we have a milestone, no doubt, because it has worked in a form of innovative discourse to convey the experiences of art to readers, and it has created a personal and close voice. Thanks to this closeness, the reader takes him/her in an artistic, historical and sociopolitical context of works of art. Art has the ability to emerge, question or innovate social codes, and Gantzarain brings together both artistic codes and social codes. Based on the suspicions, concerns and questions raised by the works of art, he explores in the senses and the symbolism of the socio-cultural and/or socio-political conflicts of Euskal Herria (myths about vascuity, the case of the Lemoiz nuclear power plant, the consumer society, the armed conflict – ETA violence, police harassment, torture…–, globalization, etc. ). In this way, it has created a certain artistic memory in Zuloa, but it has not created a solid narrative memory, but a memory of fragments, jumps and sparks to fill that gap of our collective memory: testimonies of artistic experiences.
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Louisa
Yiusfi
Txalaparta, 2023
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In 2022, Louisa Yousfi published Rester barbare, and Itziar Diez de Ultzurrun and Txalaparta published it in Basque in 2023, following the words of Ainhoa Nadia Douhaibi. He had not insisted so... [+]
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