Avelino Sala to present two books on his work in LABoral Centro de

PRESS RELEASE July 27, 2010
Avelino Sala to present two books on his work in LABoral
Centro de Arte on Thursday, July 29
The event will take place in the Mediatheque of El Centro de
Arte y Creación Industrial.
The Asturian artist Avelino Sala will present two books on his work this
Friday, July 29, in the Mediatheque of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación
Industrial. The event will take place at six in the afternoon and Rosina
Gómez-Baeza, Director of LABoral, and the centre's chief curator,
Benjamin Weil, will both be in attendance.
Dossier Avelino Sala documents the work El enemigo está dentro, a sitespecific installation that the artist made specifically for the central patio of
Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura in 2008. It includes photographs of the work
and texts written by the artist and the art critics Fernando Castro Flores,
José Luis Corazón Ardura and José Manuel Cuesta Abad. The title comes
from an episode from the civil war during the seige of a city. The event was
employed by the artist not only to establish a patent dialogue with the
architecture that housed the installation but it also gives a new reading of
the state of today's culture.
The other book, La Voz remota, is a dialogue between art critic José Luis
Corazón Ardura and Avelino Sala, published at the completion of the
project with the same name. According to Fernando Castro Flores, who
wrote the book's introduction, this dialogue, "which is unscripted but
highly coherent, shows that a conversation can be a piece of art. This book
is the realisation of a kind of textual sculpture."
Avelino Sala is probably one of the most prolific Asturian artists. His work
- always cutting-edge - has been featured in many different competitions
and exhibitions. At the beginning of his career, his work was inspired by
immediate reality - almost autobiographical - where he appeared as the
protagonist, his body covered in digital tattoos, recreating his passions.
This was the case with La espera, where he took on the theme of surfing,
or the project Ícaro, where his literally empty characters visit the loading
bay by the docks, abandoned industrial complexes, or the famous carbon
industry so closely associated with Asturias. Without abandoning drawing
(a discipline he has always nurtured), sculpture in its most varied forms,
photography and video have become increasingly more important in his
work - video itself rising to the level of protagonist. In his latest work,
Avelino Sala has started taking positions on polemical subjects, entering
into social and political debate, such as is the case with the installation
Disparad sobre nosotros.
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