The Invited Art Hall and the Gallery of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum will house a site-specific of the artist, Linarejos Moreno, from 9 February to 9 April, entering into a dialogue with the museum within its Artists at Home programme, to apply the methodology of its project to a local context.

The result of this project is an innovative work that questions its own language through poetics, the outlook from which the canonic identity of the landscape has been built and becomes a sociological and technical study of the museum.

In this exhibition, Linarejos Moreno (Madrid, 1974) juxtaposes photographs taken on 22 March 2022 when a strong haze from the Sahara transformed the sky of Madrid into a red atmosphere from Mars, with many data related to the museum.  It analyses the gender, social class, botanics and even atmospheric aspects that connect with a genealogy of scientific representation of romantic pictorial thought.

The works on display move away from the usual format of the 19th century, creating large contemporary photographs of 1.50 x 2m, accompanied by data, which aims to investigate the territory, generating scientific and social knowledge from a critical perspective.

In this way, On the Geography of Red is a study of the museum’s collection taken to an Excel table, where different aspects of figures will become known: number of painters whose works appear in its halls, number of pieces by category, number of female painters, number of women painted, spectator statistics, such as age and gender, personnel working there are classification of plants and trees in the Garden of Florida Park.

It is a photographic exploration “that looks towards the future, moving away from the past documentary of the image as a snapshot and anticipates new ways to consider the Internet era, such as those opened up by smart phones and social media”, according to the artist.

Image Credits:

Original Reference Alexander Von Humboldt