FONS ÀUDIO

Jef Cornelis is one of the pioneers of research into the language of television and its relationship to video art, documentary and the reading of history from the present, and also of the analysis of what it means to make a film. In the course of more than 25 years work at VRT, the Belgian public television corporation, Jef Cornelis directed a great deal of filmic material. His work has come to be seen as a milestone and a visual content bank of great importance to the the history of contemporary art. In FONS AUDIO #4, Cornelis contextualises some of his works in the MACBA Collection.

Deimantas Narkevičius (Utena, Lithuania, 1964) explores the perception of history and the mechanisms that transform it through utopias or ideologies. He focuses on the personal and individual, often structuring his work around forgotten or repressed testimonies and stories. In FONS ÀUDIO #3,  she provides a context to two of his videos in the MACBA Collection, The Role of a Lifetime and Scena. These two videos, both from 2003, fall within some of his principal areas of interest: collective memory vs. personal memory, fiction vs. reality, analogue vs. digital. 

In his work, Armando Andrade Tudela (1975, Lima, Peru) explores concepts relating to modernity and the feeling for history. FONS ÀUSIO #2 is structured around his show “#01 Armando Andrade Tudela. ahir, demà”, was being installed at la Capella MACBA in March 2010. In it, the Peruvian artist begins by explaining processes by which he gave form to his series of sculptures in rattan and steel, two of which, “Sin Título (1)” and “Sin Título (2)”, are in the MACBA Collection. Tudela then goes on to discuss the possibilities he has recently found in film as a vehicle for direct information transmission, considering this a new line of work.

The oeuvre of Esther Ferrer (San Sebastián, 1937) is characterized by a methodic minimalism, in which quotidian objects and her own body become the main elements in her work. FONS ÀUDIO #1 offers a look back over her career from her beginnings with the Zaj Group to reflections on the passing of time, touching on her working methods, creative processes and commenting on her works “Íntimo y personal” and “Silla Zaj”, both of which form part of the MACBA Collection.