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THERIOMORPHISM VI
HUMANS, ANIMALS AND THE ARTIST

Bordalo II
Agostino Iacurci
Kristen Liu-Wong
Bruno Pontiroli
Okuda San Miguel

Curated by Okuda San Miguel

Launch: Tuesday 26 February 19:30

Now in its sixth year and firmly established as a classic fixture of Madrid Art Week, this exhibition continues to live up to its reputation for new ideas. Curated by Okuda San Miguel, the 2019 edition is a unique opportunity to explore work by well-known artists like Bordalo II, Agostino Iacurci, Kristen Liu-Wong and Bruno Pontiroli.
Theriomorphism is a collective exhibition organized by Ink and Movement that showcases new work by Okuda San Miguel, alongside some of the most exciting and irreverent names from the international art world.
In previous years, visitors have enjoyed work by artists such as Smithe, Hell’O Monsters and AJ Fosik. This year, for 2019, it’s the turn of Lisbon artist Artur Bordalo, better known as Bordalo II, whose meticulous compositions created from waste reflect on sustainability and artistic material; Agostino Iacurci, originally from Italy and now based in Berlin whose clear shapes and bright colours blur the lines between the figurative and the abstract; French artist Bruno Pontiroli, whose poetic images possess their own surprising and unique reality; and, last but not least, the North-American Kristen Liu-Wong, whose work is characterized by its crude irony. And in keeping with tradition, the line-up is topped off by new works from the unmistakable pop surrealism of the organiser, Okuda San Miguel.
This year, Theriomorphism VI will return to its usual venue of Madrid’s Kreisler Gallery (Hermosilla 8) between 26 February and 3 March.
When we talk about the myth of the werewolf, a relic of the ancestral imaginary of Old Europe, we are really talking about therianthropy. In fact, it was the Greeks who, with their passion for explaining the world through myths and symbolism, invented a concept that understands humans as intricately linked to the wild animality that surrounds them. Theriomorphism (from therion, wild animal or beast, and morfo, form) refers to a human with animal features or that is able to transform—either wholly or partly—into an animal. However, it’s not only Europeans, in the darkest hours of our moral and historical decadence, who have succumbed to therianthropy...

Friday 12pm - 9pm

Saturday 11:00am - 9:00pm

Sunday 11:00am - 7:00pm

For its third edition Urvanity Art returns to COAM. An exceptional space located in the Chueca district, next to Malasaña and Alonso Martínez, in the very heart of the city. An iconic area, core of Madrid’s trends, avant-garde, cultural events, fashion and art scene.

COAM is a living space for community gathering and very proactive with culture, art, society and of course architecture matters. More than 12.000m2 distributed in 4 floors and a central garden, makes it an urban oasis that will host URVANITY ART’s third edition.

It is manifest that for several decades new practices, values and codes have coexisted in the cultural landscape of our cities, occupying a place in the world of contemporary art. The issue is how to tie them together, and this cannot be achieved only by means of an urban art fair. Therefore, Urvanity has been conceived as a platform for a New Contemporary Art.
To speak of new art is to catalyze a contemporary project with a historical perspective because “all that is not tradition is plagiarism.” Notably, Urvanity advocates proposals (with a strong base in the urban context of the 1970 ́s up until today) that construct a dialogue with modernity, and, as a result, provide a setting from which we can explain the world around us. It is important not only to consider the work itself but to understand the public space where this very work is composed and that it at the least convey an aesthetic experience.

Urvanity seeks to explore and thus imagine possible future scenarios for this New Contemporary Art, thanks in part to alliances with other initiatives and promoters of culture in our city. To support the creation and spreading of ideas, as well as facilitate access to these practices of contemporary creation that define our vast cultural urban landscape.

Urvanity Art,
Madrid