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VOLTA7 EDITION [SOLD OUT]
CARLOS AIRES | Spain, Belgium
born 1974 in Malaga, Spain
represented by ADN GALERIA
Medium: vinyl records, plexiglas
Edition Nr: 10 Each + 2 AP
Price:
Single Edition: € 1100
Pair: € 2000
(shipping not included)
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 Carlos Aires, Disco Little Dancer, 2011, vinyl records, plexiglas, 72,7 x 26,2 cm, Edition: 10 + 2 AP | |  Carlos Aires, Gimme Love, 2011, vinyl records, plexiglas, 66 x 29 cm, Edition: 10 + 2 AP |
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VOLTA7 EDITION BY CARLOS AIRES
CARLOS AIRES’ artistic production plays with the goal of making us doubt what is true and what is false; what is real and what is fictional. He prompts us to question our way of perceiving reality and our critical attitude when looking at works that incorporate art-historical iconography as well as references from the political and social realms.
The idea of this series emerged when Aires realized how violence, war, disasters and pornography were equally presented as forms of mass entertainment. Love is in the Air deals with the dark side of our daily melodrama; as Aires says, “the works are visual questions about the impossibility to absorb any kind of reality that is not happening somewhere close around us, a reality that we only see on screens or in printed matter.” The series were also inspired by the artist’s predilection for iconic popular songs and the fetishism associated to the recorded vinyl.
Utilizing metonymic mounting as departing point, these works shelter harsh messages behind the sweetness of the seductive formalism of charming colored, golden or black silhouettes. Aires undertakes an iconographic research on images of explicit sexual attitudes, world disasters, pop characters, art historical masterpieces and war-related shots taken from internet, newspapers and archives; then he uses a digital process to capture the silhouettes drawn from the images and employs a laser-cut equipment to prepare the pieces of a previously sketched installation. The artist chooses the appropriate vinyl that matches with the silhouette, making an association between the title of the album and the shape.
His is indeed a cosmos that offers no distinctions between good and evil, neither presents prejudices concerning the social weight of our behavior. He only speculates on the credible and the incredible, measuring out censored reality with humor and perspicacity.
The VOLTA7 edition takes key motifs from Aires’ genre, mixing art historical references–Degas’ Small Dancer and Robert Indiana’s LOVE—with popular culture images, fusing sex, death and music in a wonderful potpourri of high and low. The images can be read in a number of ways, just as the skull itself can refer not only to Heavy Metal but also to the memento mori of classical painting.
The edition exists in two motifs and can be purchased separately or as a pair—a King and Queen of Decadence or Innocence, as the case may be.
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