BIOGRAPHY
Adriana Berges (1992) is a visual artist, graduated in Fine Arts by the Complutense University of Madrid, Erasmus student at HAWK, Hildesheim, Germany and Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture by the Reina Sofía National Museum Art Center.
Some of her most outstanding individual exhibitions include ‘A matter of time – 2016’ (“Cuestión de tiempo – 2016”) hosted at the Juca Claret Gallery and ‘Screenshot – 2018’ hosted at the A Ciegas Art Gallery, both in Madrid. As a result of this last, she has participated as speaker presenting her work at the Telefónica Foundation, the Contemporary Art Space La Neomudejar and the University Rey Juan Carlos.
Her work has been always related to landscapes, focusing on landscapes through the Internet for the last years.
She has recently exhibited her newest project ‘Quietly’ (“En calma”) at the A Ciegas Art Gallery during the month of February 2020, and her work ‘Plastics at the sea’ (“Plásticos en el mar”) at the Contemporary Art Fair JustMad20.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE GALLERY
QUIETLY (EN CALMA) 2020
A tribute to boredom and to the need of finding quiet spaces in a hyper stimulated society.
Based on the existing dilemma of over excitement and productiveness.
The project ‘QUIETLY’ (“EN CALMA”) springs up from the artist’s search of minimalism in the middle of an over stimulated society, where productivity is rewarded, and resting, losing interest and quietness are useless. Minimalism means to get rid of all those inputs -digital or visual- that move us away from calm, and vindicate the unproductivity, the concept of losing time, the patience, the beauty in being on one’s own.
To get to that conclusion, the artist quotes the architect and designer Ron Arad ‘Boredom is the mother of creativity’, highlighting that being bored or doing nothing should not have such a negative meaning but being essential for personal growth.
As we know well, hyperstimulation is already affecting our little ones by risking their patience, their tolerance towards loneliness and boredom, and boosting the danger of developing a fragile self-steam as adults.
‘As I see it, this situation also affects the elder, the way we consume technology, which is making us quite addictive to it, and the feeling of loneliness in an hyperconnected world’.
In this context, the artist suggests a space for relaxation where visitors can lose themselves into an oasis of images evoking tranquility. With a touch of nostalgia that brings us to the time when we lived in a world with no Internet and summer was about three months holidays of playing, pool and hours of boredom.
EXHIBITION PIECES:
DIGITAL LANDSCAPES (PAISAJES DIGITALES) – Panel painting
Dimensions of installation: 83x214cm
Year of creation: 2019-2020
Pink pad (Almohadilla rosa)
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100x100cm
Year of creation: 2019-2020
Water (Agua)
Oil on canvas + vinyl, chair, audio and palm tree.
Dimensions: 116x81cm (painting) – Installation: various dimensions.
Year of creation: 2019-2020
Beaches I and II (Playas I and II)
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 50x65cm
Year of creation: 2019-2020
Mass cane plant (Tronco de Brasil)
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60x46cm
Full installation: various dimensions
Year of creation: 2019-2020
Plant (Planta)
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 120x91cm
Year of creation: 2019-2020
Bamboo (Bambú)
Panel painting
Dimensions: 37x26cm
Full installation: various dimensions
Year of creation: 2019-2020
SCREENSHOT 2019
Screenshot is a piece of the painter Adriana Berges’ painting research project on landscapes through the Internet. This exhibition shows two chapters of the project:
WINDOWS (VENTANAS), in memory of all those iconic WindowsXP wallpapers which made the entry to millions of users’ interface nicer, and now is part of the social imaginary of a generation.
GAMER, landscapes in videogames through the gamers’ eyes.
WINDOWS (VENTANAS) – 55x41cm each – Panel painting
Interpreting Tulips (Interpretación Tulips) – 114x146cm – Oil on canvas
Tulips Details – (Tulips Detalles) – 37x26cm – Oil on board
Pretentious oasis (Oasis ostentoso) – 114x146cm – Oil on canvas
Pretentious oasis (Oasis ostentoso) – 114x146cm – Oil on canvas