Galeria Fúcares MADRID Conde de Xiquena, 12 1º Izq. 28004 Madrid Espagne
Fúcares Gallery is proud to present the first individual exhibition in Almagro by the artist Javier Ayarza (Palencia, 1961).
In Javier Ayarza’s career as an artist there is an element that provides the different series that he has presented in recent years with continuity, and this element is his interest for territory and traces. It could be said that his is a work about “marks”.
Javier Ayarza’s artistic practice has its roots in the painstaking reading of works about territory, which has constituted one of the backbones of the history of photography in recent decades. Precisely in the updating of that topographic searching is where his proposal is placed.
With “The Numbered Days”, Javier Ayarza (Palencia, 1961) finishes the series started in 2002 under the title La Siesta del Fauno [The Faun’s Siesta], a work that develops itself around a territory scarcely recorded, a geography scarcely inhabited, limited economic activity, scarce traces of modernization (acculturation?), and in which an initiative of a strikingly individual nature prevails, which hardly fits into any dynamics of planning or homogenisation.
The traces that are to be found in these images are those of a timeless space, a basic and unfinished urban planning, in which man’s presence, physically absent, takes shape through the artist’s traces and interventions.
However, the “topographic” updating proposed by Ayarza does not just develop an exploration of a territory “unrecorded” so far but it does so from an autonomous creative strategy that does not imitate models, since in this work the objectivity of the whole current derived from the German school (coldness, distance, absence of emotiveness), mixes with an approach seeking to construct an “experience of territory” whose base stresses the presence of marks and traces that speak about activity, life and dreams, if not paralyzed, at least absent.