The Joan Miró Foundation shows Qubo Gas

Written by John Chadwell Friday, 18 May 2012 23:27

BARCELONA, SPAIN - The Joan Miró Foundation presents an exhibition by qubo gas (www.qubogas.com), a group set up in 2000 in Lille by Jef Ablézot (1976), Morgan Dimnet (1973) and Laura Henno (1976). This brings to an end the Pigments and Pixels cycle curated by Marie-Thérèse Champesme and Pascale Pronnier, which has shown a selection of works by artists from Le Fresnoy who look at the various links between today’s artists and the techniques, themes and styles that have been present throughout the history of art. The exhibition is on view 15 June – 30 September 2007.

Qubo Gas creates luxuriant, colourful vegetation, dream landscapes that often recall the refinement of Japanese prints and calligraphy. Their output is the result of a group effort, a dialogue, rather like musical improvisation.

They work with traditional media, such as drawing and watercolour on paper, silk-screen printing and collage, combined with digital techniques, performance art, interactive installations, etc. but always moving in their own particular graphic universe. A recent show of their work was Watercouleur Park created for the Net Art programme at Tate Modern (http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/watercouleurpark/).

In their exhibition in the Espai 13 they are presenting works in different media in order to demonstrate how they make use of each one, contrasting the thin line of the drawing pen and the delicate tints of watercolour with the uniform tones of silk-screen printing and digital drawings, or the thickness of layers of collage with the smooth appearance of prints. The sense of proliferation in the drawings is also present in the installation: a series of posters turned into wallpaper, a “wall drawing” that transforms the exhibition space into a fictitious landscape.

Two digital works are also shown: Uki-Yo and Shimmy Shimmy Grass, produced for Le Fresnoy. They echo the poetic delicacy of the drawings, animated by the computer.

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