Buenos Aires, 1976.
Patrick Rivera
He is going to study art direction and photography and have a master’s degree in business administration at the University of Salvador and the University of Deusto. He is going to be a professor of photography at the University of Palerm. L’any 2012 will be selected for the National Hall of Visual Arts. Between 2016 and 2018 he will be a resident artist during most of Temps a Hangar. The six works will be acquired by collections with Banc Sabadell. I intervene in the development of projects that involve programming, mechatronics, robotics and digital manufacturing, preferably with low-level licenses. He is co-founder of Fase, a center for thought and production of contemporary art next to the Hospitalet de Llobregat and of TMTMTM, a collection of production, research and technological experimentation resident at Hangar.org.
Treball to the collection: Agism
http://www.patriciorivera.com
Agisme, 2019.
The piece addresses the declarative character of the pla as a force of performative enunciation and signe of exclamation of an intention; a declaration, all of which is regulated by law, can be executed within the elusive alibi of a work of art.
The kinesis of the weapon is an al·legory of the visceral impulse contained in the fragility of a paintball, which confronts the inescapable confrontation of a net wall that always guanya. The vessament is the defeat that destroys the pleasure and the merchandise of the other, but that will forever preserve the trace and the display of an asymmetry of power that subdues the weakest bag of the artistic food chain.
Agism is part of a program of research and production organized by Hangar in collaboration with the NewArtFoundation and the .BEEP {col·lecció;}.
Special Agraïments: TMTMTM and Intra Automation.