“Implicit” a photography exhibition by Álvaro Pérez Mulas at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 20th June to 23rd August 2015

Time : 
20th June : 11:30 am - Opening
20th June to 23rd August : 
Saturday and Sunday : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm - Exhibition on View
Tuesday to Friday : 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free

Venue : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)

Event Description : “Implicit” a photography exhibition by Álvaro Pérez Mulas (fotografía)
Linguistic twist and visual paradox
Thoughts on the photographs of Álvaro Pérez Mulas

In her studies on the optical subconscious, Rosalind Krauss recalled that the American painter Frank Stella often said that the person he most admired was the baseball player Ted Williams, who boasted that his vision that was so quick that he could see the stitches in a ball as it flew over the base. The exceptional vision of the sportsman attracted the painter because of his ability to amplify the spectrum of what was visible and go a step further than natural sight by discovering details in a world that we could not otherwise perceive, thereby accessing a kind of “abstract state” of vision.
The photographic gaze of Álvaro Pérez Mulas manages to capture the details of objects and urban
surfaces that the human eye is incapable of detecting, but not so much because they are invisible, rather because their “humble objecthood” makes them disappear. In other words, what we discover through these photographs will never be seen by passersby, and this is where the value of the images lies – their capacity for revelation and transfiguration, because in the end the images that are created are totally autonomous from the reference object from which they have been taken. In this sense, the photograph takes up an aim that once formed part of painting: to make us see what we would otherwise not see, to make us know what we otherwise would not know…

About the photographer: Álvaro Pérez Mulas is an artist who works in several art forms, primarily
photographic and sculptural, but looking for interdisciplinarity and experimentation, focusing on
communication and the relationship between media. He was born in Zamora and studied at the School of Fine Arts in Salamanca, as well as learn from his sculptor father, Hipolito Perez Calvo. His interests soon grew from sculpture at his childhood to other forms of creation that he discovered at the college, especially photography and audiovisual world. This change was crystallized in Amsterdam, where he was steeped in the reality of contemporary art. He has shown his artworks in galleries, museums and cultural centres in his hometown, as well as Salamanca and Valladolid, Castilla and Leon, Madrid and other Spanish cities. He also has had exhibitions in Paris, Ghent, New York, Los Angeles or Miami. He also working of innovation in art education with a peer group, with which it forms the Red Dot Collective. His approach to art education is not different from his creative work. Pérez Mulas's work focuses on the notions of reality and representation, perception and the changes to which it is exposed, the interrelation of means or the duality of presence and absence footprint.

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