Alejandro Gomez Cangas: Eine Menge – Viele Wege
Im Juni letzten Jahres, In der Galerie veranstaltet unsere Plattform dann in Rämistrasse 33, Zürich, Wir haben eine erfolgreiche Ausstellung von Alejandro Gómez Cangas gestartet. Kurz vor dem Kunst Basel öffnen 2022 gerecht, Die ‚Germinal‘ exhibition caught the attention of several critics, Spezialisten, und Kunstsammler. On display were pieces from several of the artist’s series, Alle teilen eine starke Dokumentarfilmabsicht, reimagined from a distinctive author’s perspective.
Es ist ein etablierter Poetiker, Das Ergebnis fleißiger Forschungsarbeiten. Gómez Cangas reflects on the peculiarities that make up groups, from relatively small ones to large crowds. To consider any group of people as a homogenous mass is, in any case, an intentional or unintentional misconception, convenient or not. Perhaps a group is animated by a communion of interests, skills, or attitudes… but each member also stands out in their individuality, in essentially intimate realms.
One cannot ignore that sometimes what gathers or even briefly articulates a group is a conflict situation or pure chance. A crowd is, although it may seem paradoxical, an expression of dissimilarities.
Gómez Cangas is interested in highlighting these distinctions, and in all his works, which originate from portraits of ordinary people (not fictional characters), the viewer can glimpse the multiplicity of potential paths of this recreated humanity.
A year after that exhibition in Zurich, Alejandro Gómez Cangas continues to develop this integrating concept in his work. And these recent pieces are testament to that commitment.
He himself affirms in his notes: „An individual and photographic investigation of the characters will be the starting point for large gatherings of people; subjects marching towards an unknown direction as part of an infantry that holds its goal in the path itself. The mass is not presented as something anonymous or impersonal, but as a composite; it abounds in details and calls for a few minutes of contemplation. Die Vielfalt der Menschen rückt dann in den Fokus, noticing each individual, pausing to observe. Das Experimentieren geht vom Allgemeinen aus, fast abstrakt, auf das Besondere und Unmerkliche, as something similar occurs when merging the idea of a ‚distinct being‘ from the rest of the people or the feeling that ‚in unity there is strength‘. Thus we stop before this crowd of which we are part in one way or another.“
That is ultimately the idea: in any of these crowds we could all be… and surely we have been… and we will be again. The artist does not judge, although he does problematize. Am Ende, the force and durability of the bonds between the human beings that make up a crowd depend on an infinity of conditions… which the artist does not intend to make explicit.
Gómez Cangas seems more seduced by the mystery of the very personal journey of each of the individuals, their irreducible freedom. We are not talking about flocks here.
One year after the opening of the ‚Germinal‘ exhibition, and just a few days before Art Basel 2023, ArteMorfosis once again approaches the vibrant and always suggestive work of this restless and laborious artist and shows a selection of recent works.
Über den Künstler: Alejandro Gomez Cangas
