{"id":38847,"guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/?post_type=event&#038;p=38847"},"modified":"2024-06-20T22:55:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:55:54","slug":"bobby-building-david-roth","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/events\/event\/bobby-building-david-roth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodybuilding. David Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":39560,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"event-venues":[505],"event-tags":[],"class_list":["post-38847","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-venue-galeria-alegria","event-category-exposicio"],"acf":{"title_ca":"Bodybuilding. David Roth","title_es":"Bodybuilding. David Roth","title_en":"Bodybuilding. David Roth","desc_ca":"","desc_es":"Cuando le preguntaron a Arnold Schwarzenegger por qu\u00e9 segu\u00eda yendo al gimnasio a los 74 a\u00f1os, dio la siguiente explicaci\u00f3n: \u00abPor la misma raz\u00f3n por la que desayuno hoy, desayun\u00e9 ayer, y desayuno desde hace diez a\u00f1os. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 sigo durmiendo? Dorm\u00ed hace veinte a\u00f1os, dorm\u00ed hace diez, as\u00ed que sigo durmiendo cada noche... Lo mismo ocurre con el entrenamiento. El entrenamiento forma parte de mi vida. Es as\u00ed de sencillo\u00bb.\r\n\r\nLa visi\u00f3n de un cuerpo nos permite adivinar gran parte de su historia, aunque al mismo tiempo no es m\u00e1s que una instant\u00e1nea de sus capas superficiales. Debajo se oculta una multitud de detalles \u00abrecogidos\u00bb de lo que el cuerpo ha vivido desde el d\u00eda en que naci\u00f3. Las primeras capas s\u00f3lo son parcialmente visibles o ya no lo son en absoluto, pero siguen formando parte de la historia de este cuerpo. Al contrario que en la vida humana, donde el final es definitivo, una obra de arte entra en una segunda, una nueva vida, cuando la obra del artista termina y despliega sus alas en un espacio expositivo.\r\n\r\nEn su actual exposici\u00f3n BODYBUUILDING en Galer\u00eda Alegr\u00eda, David Roth muestra tres cuerpos de obra, todos ellos terminados en 2024.\r\n\r\nEn la sala principal (Sala A) de la galer\u00eda, uno se encuentra con una manada de cuerpos de cuatro patas, coloridos y voluminosos, pre\u00f1ados de pintura(s). Estos objetos escult\u00f3ricos llamados \u00abcerebros\u00bb son caballetes -Roth los construy\u00f3 a partir de viejos bastidores- apilados con cuadros. El cuerpo de los \u00abcerebros\u00bb est\u00e1 formado por capas de material pict\u00f3rico: lienzos y pinturas cortados de sus bastidores, trozos de tela que Roth utiliza como paleta, un trapo para limpiar, toallas de rizo utilizadas para limpiar los botes de pintura o el suelo del estudio. Parte del material se produjo como parte de tareas \u00abserviles\u00bb preparatorias o pict\u00f3ricas o se gener\u00f3 como subproducto en el proceso pict\u00f3rico. Se trata de una forma de pintura que no pretende ser pintura en el proceso de creaci\u00f3n, lo que provoca una libertad y ligereza pict\u00f3ricas, dif\u00edciles o incluso imposibles de conseguir conscientemente. Capa sobre capa en diferentes caballetes de diferentes proyectos pict\u00f3ricos de \u00e9pocas y trabajos totalmente distintos.\r\n\r\nEn la Sala B, Roth muestra un grupo de nuevos cuadros peque\u00f1os de una serie en curso, que \u00e9l mismo bautiz\u00f3 como cuadros 'Painting Painting'. Estos cuadros se crean pintando una y otra vez durante un largo periodo de tiempo. Un lienzo se convierte en una paleta, se convierte en un cuadro y el cuadro vuelve a convertirse en paleta a un ritmo que dura varios a\u00f1os. Normalmente, despu\u00e9s de cada capa pintada pasan semanas, a veces meses, hasta que la superficie de la pintura al \u00f3leo se ha secado y puede seguir la siguiente capa. Con el paso de los a\u00f1os, el color se acumula en el lienzo de forma casi escult\u00f3rica, a veces incluso sobrepasando los bordes. Es un enfoque l\u00fadico y espont\u00e1neo de la pintura. En \u00faltima instancia, la historia del arte hace o\u00edr su voz de todos modos y se encuentran vocabularios pict\u00f3ricos de diferentes \u00e9pocas, movimientos y g\u00e9neros, que quiz\u00e1 nunca hubieran tenido relaci\u00f3n temporal o formal.\r\n\r\nComo \u00abpista oculta\u00bb, Galer\u00eda Alegr\u00eda tambi\u00e9n abre la \u00absala de exposiciones\u00bb de la muestra de David Roth para presentar una serie de peque\u00f1as obras enmarcadas en acuarela sobre p\u00e1ginas de libro. Estas p\u00e1ginas proceden de un libro de entrenamiento de culturismo de los a\u00f1os ochenta, donde los ejercicios f\u00edsicos se ilustran con fotograf\u00edas. Roth realiz\u00f3 sencillas intervenciones pict\u00f3ricas en forma de \u00f3valos de color a\u00f1adidos para dotar de otra capa a las fotograf\u00edas, que parecen inclasificables y extra\u00f1as por naturaleza. Para David Roth, las paletas y el muestreo de colores siempre han sido una parte esencial y absoluta de la pintura. Con un \u00abtoque\u00bb de color, con un gesto pict\u00f3rico aparentemente banal, estos hallazgos fotogr\u00e1ficos cambian al instante.","desc_en":"<div class=\"we8_gal_text1\">\r\n\r\nWhen Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked, why he still goes to the gym at the age of 74, he offered the following explanation: \"For the same reason why I am having breakfast today - I had breakfast yesterday, I had breakfast ten years ago. Why am I still sleeping? I slept twenty years ago, I slept ten years ago, so I\u2018m still sleeping every night... It\u2018s the same with training. Training is a part of my life. It\u2018s that simple.\".\r\n\r\nThe sight of a body allows us to guess much of its history, though at the same time it is merely a snapshot of its surfacing layers. Hidden underneath is a multitude of details \u2018collected' from what the body has experienced since the day it was born. The first layers are only partially visible, or no longer visible at all, yet still part of this body's history. Unlike in human life, where the end is final, a work of art enters into a second, a new life, when the artist's work ends and it spreads it wings in an exhibition space.\r\n\r\nIn his current solo exhibition Bodybuilding, at Galer\u00eda Alegr\u00eda, David Roth shows three bodies of work completed in 2024.\r\n\r\nIn the main room (Room A) of the gallery, one encounters a herd of four-legged, colorful, voluminous bodies pregnant with painting(s). These sculptural objects called \u2018Brains' are trestles - Roth built them from old stretcher frames - piled high with paintings. The \u2018Brain's' body is formed by layers of painting material: canvasses and paintings cut from their frames, pieces of fabric Roth used as a palette, a rag to clean brushes, scraps of canvas to test the quality of certain colors, a section of a painting the artist cut out because it did not work composition-wise, plastic foil that served as a palette or to protect the floor, terry cloth towels used to clean paint pots or the studio floor. Some of the material was produced as part of \u2018menial' preparatory or painterly tasks or generated as a by-product in the painting process. Albeit a form of painting that does not claim to be painting in the process of creation, which provokes a painterly freedom and lightness, difficult or even impossible to achieve consciously. Layer upon layer on different trestles from different painting projects from entirely different periods of time and work.\r\n\r\nIn Galer\u00eda Alegr\u00eda\u2018s Room B, Roth shows a group of new small paintings of an ongoing series, he named \u2018Painting Painting' paintings. These \u2018Painting (verb) Painting (noun)' paintings are created by over-painting again and again over a long period of time. A canvas which became a palette, now becomes a painting - and the painting turns palette again in a rhythm going on for years and years. Usually, after each painted layer, weeks, sometimes months go by, until the surface of the oil paint has dried and the next layer can follow. Over the years, color accumulates on the canvas in an almost sculptural manner, sometimes even extending beyond the edges. It is a playful and spontaneous approach to painting. Ultimately, art history makes its voice heard anyway and painterly vocabularies from different periods, movements and genres meet, that may never have had any temporal or formal relationship.\r\n\r\nAs a \u2018hidden track', Galer\u00eda Alegr\u00eda also opens the \u2018showroom' for David Roth\u2018s exhibition to present a series of framed small watercolor works on cut-out book pages. These pages originate from a 1980s bodybuilding training book, where physical exercises are illustrated with photographic templates. Roth made simple painterly interventions in the form of added oval areas of color to add another layer to the photographs, which appear unclassifiable and bizarre by nature. For David Roth, palettes and sampling colors have always been an essential, absolute part of painting. Through a \u2018touch' of color, with a seemingly banal painterly gesture, these photographic findings are changed instantly.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;","event_category":103,"event_show_only_own_date":false,"_event_free":true,"_event_price-min":"","_event_price-max":"","_event_web_ca":"https:\/\/www.galeriaalegria.es","_event_web_es":"https:\/\/www.galeriaalegria.es","_event_web_en":"https:\/\/www.galeriaalegria.es","event_contact_email":"","event_apply_email":"","is_online_event":false,"is_art_nou_event":false,"is_bgw_event":false,"date_text":"","register_deadline":null,"altres_organitzadors":""},"abe_event_venue":"Galer\u00eda Alegr\u00eda","abe_event_category":"Exposici\u00f3","start":"2024-05-25 00:00:00","end":"2024-07-12 23:59:00","schedule":"once","schedule_meta":"","frequency":1,"all_day":1,"until":"2024-05-25 00:00:00","include":[],"exclude":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/38847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"occurrences":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/38847\/occurrences"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"event-category","href":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-venue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-venues?post=38847"},{"taxonomy":"event-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graf.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-tags?post=38847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}