Libres Para Siempre
Free Forever
Libres Para Siempre is a pop-inspired artistic collective whose practice is rooted in collaborative creation.
Artwork in the collection
Viva el Paro, 1998
About the artwork
Viva el Paro was created for Pinturas Paranormales at Doble Espacio in Madrid in 1998. Presented as a lightbox, it questions the economics of art multiples and the relationship between manual production, reproduction and price. The collective incorporated tools such as Animator Pro and Virtual Home Space Builder into what it called Advanced Painting: painting expanded through animation, virtual worlds and digital resources. In a context of unemployment, its response was to keep creating.
The work also marked the beginning of the group’s first website. On deposit from LaAgencia.
Artistic career: Libres Para Siempre
Career and projects
Libres Para Siempre is a pop-inspired collective founded in 1989 by Beatriz Alegre, Almudena Baeza, Alberto Cortés, Juan Jarén, Miguel Ángel Martín, Álvaro Monge, Ana Parga and Mª Luz Ruiz. Following its first exhibition at Estrujenbank in 1990, it used several names before establishing its identity through electronic art and the internet. The group has participated in ARCO, Art Futura and numerous alternative venues. It published Arte en las Redes in 1997 and has worked across painting, photography, performance, animation, video, virtual reality and net.art.
Its work is held by MEIAC and Museo del Barro.