José Yaque
Alluvione d’Arno/Arno River Flood
An Art Project of the Municipalities of Pisa and Santa Croce sull’Arno in the framework of Toscanaincontemporanea2016 in collaboration with GALLERIA CONTINUA, Associazione Arte Continua, and Gruppo Hera, Waste Recycling, with the participation of the Chamber of Commerce of Pisa, the Fine Arts Academy of Florence, the Franco Russoli Arts High School of Pisa and Cascina, and support from the Cassa di Risparmio di San Miniato bank.
Saturday, February 4, 2017, the show entitled “José Yaque, Alluvione d’Arno” curated by Ilaria Mariotti opened at Villa Pacchiani in Santa Croce sull’Arno as part of the Know-how / Show-how a geography of relationships for Systems of vision / Systems of reality Arts Project. The show provides a series of reflections on questions regarding the sustainability of operations in the world today: on the life of objects and materials, the idea of recovery, the idea of waste as representative of the idea of the identity of our territories, and on all these processes in action. An exponent of Cuba’s creative production at international level, José Yaque is one of the artists selected for display in the Cuba Pavilion this year’s Venice Biennial. The artist has presented two large installations expressly conceived for inside and outside the Villa Pacchiani exhibition center: a set of paintings and drawings made over the last few years and a collection of new drawings linked directly to the this project.
“Know-how / Show-how, a geography of relationships for Systems of vision / Systems of reality” is the continuation of a path of development strongly shared by the municipal administrations of Pisa and Santa Croce sull’Arno – and in the first instance, by GALLERIA CONTINUA and Associazione Arte Continua, both of which have always dedicated ample attention on the relationship between art and territory, and both have acknowledged the need to involve artists in the process of reconsidering social questions first begun in 2013 with the intention of constructing a model of intervention for associating territories with international artists.
Know-how / Show-how. A geography of relationships for Systems of vision / Systems of reality curated by Ilaria Mariotti
Interior con Huracán De la serie/From the series: La creación no entiende, 2015, , chairs, papers, plastics, phonograph tape, electric cables, celluloids. Installation view 'TRANSHUMANCE', CAB ART CENTER, BRUSSElS 2016
Courtesy: Courtesy CAB Art Center and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana