From Saturday, November 8 to 30, the Malvasía Room of the DEARTE Foundation, in the Ducal Palace of Medinaceli (Syria), will host the new exhibition by Toledo artist Fernando Silva, entitled PLAKAS. The exhibition invites us to think about the matrix as … Origin and multiplicity, about the impact that remains and the transformation that occurs in the creative process.
During the opening, which was held on the eighth of this month, the book of poems Desde el sur de Nuestros Corazóns by the poet Luis Sionda, who attended the ceremony, was presented. Soon, the volume will have an illustrated edition of Fernando Silva’s works, thus continuing the artistic and editorial collaboration that both creators have maintained for years, in which word and image are intertwined as complementary forms of expression.
Between tradition and experimentation
In PLAKAS, Silva proposes a visual journey that oscillates between the traditional and the experimental, between the tangible and the virtual. His work starts from the plate – the classic matrix of engraving – as multiple areas: a metal surface, stone, wood or a digital file. The exhibition proposes a dialogue between physical gesture and digital memory, between the permanence of the object and the fluidity of the code.
The artist “explores this duality with the same freedom with which physics understood the coexistence of wave and particle. Pieces made on aluminum sheets combine manual intervention with the support of a digital file, opening up a space where technology becomes a cultural act: a contemporary way to leave a mark and transmit experience,” according to Rachel Lamott.
Unified path
Born in Toledo in 1955. Fernando Silva is a multidisciplinary visual artist. A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country and graduates of the Schools of Applied Arts and Artistic Crafts in Madrid and Toledo, he devoted thirty-seven years to teaching and was part of the Tolmo Group between 2004 and 2010.
He has exhibited at Tebas Gallery (Madrid) and Foqueris Gallery (Almagro, Ciudad Real), and has participated in more than forty group exhibitions and twenty solo exhibitions in Spain, France, Japan, and the United States. Currently, his work can also be seen in The Wrong digital art biennial, which opened on November 1st.
In PLAKAS, Silva returns to his natural zone: the zone of dialogue between techniques, times and materials. Ink and heat, analog and digital, fingerprint and memory. An exhibition that invites the viewer to pause in front of the matrix as a symbol of origin, repetition and infinite possibility.
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