At times, the idea of the form arrests time and almost life itself. It manifests itself as the inescapable fate of both images and things. Like Calderón de la Barca’s monster of fortune, who wander...

In 1977, at the age of 43, Monique Gies, a wife, mother of four and principal of a school in Strasburg, abandoned her home, out of the blue, leaving behind a comfortable bourgeois life and the religio...

Blind Spots is conceived as an exhibition featuring works by artists who are mostly connected to the gallery’s program, and whose pieces—despite their relevance—have been left out within the rea...

The works of the British artist Bobby Dowler couple a bold, forceful use of colour with a process of assembling, cutting and overlayering materials that challenges the narrativity and illusionism norm...

In Pierre Descamps’ work one can note a concern with the standards of mid-twentieth century German photography, a sober and formalist grammar grounded in a respect for order. That being said, underl...

Nicolás Lamas’s work could be understood as a fragmentary and heterogeneous circulation of ideas and materials in constant negotiation; as a complex network of knowledge that mingles the natural an...

When José Díaz showed me this new series of works he talked about the ‘round painting’ which, according to him, is practised by a number of artists, though each one understands and undertakes it...

Paul Humphrey (1931–1999) claimed that the source of his first portraits, made in the late-eighties, were photos of students given to him by his daughter, a student and then later a teacher at a loc...

One ought to understand the painting of Miguel Marina (Madrid, 1989) as an ongoing process of experimentation, as a forking path where transience becomes conclusive production. While in recent years h...

Galleries ethall and The Goma are pleased to invite you to the opening of “El rostro ajeno” by Sergio Prego on Saturday 20th January. Hiroshi Teshigahara’s film The Face of Another, ...

A few years have passed since Javier Arce started to explore the relationship between the image of the landscape and the materiality of the landscape per se. With a pared-down economy of means, vergin...

Aimée Zito Lema was born in The Netherlands, where her father, a lawyer and human rights activist, had gone into exile escaping the dictatorship in Argentina. In 1985 she returned with him to the fam...

Over the course of history, Saint Brendan’s Isle, the legendary island of St Brendan the Navigator who crossed the Atlantic in search of the Otherworld, has been the cause of dispute between tho...

“You must forget everything”. This is what a mysterious man, with a wide skull and small mouth, told Betty and Barney Hill to prevent them from understanding what had just that happened. The incid...

The artist says she has no idea what the exhibition is about, that she’s not interested in explaining it; that she will be completely caught up in the process until the day it opens and that it chan...

One of the most notable features of Cristina Garrido’s work is how she lays bare the disruptions and potentialities of images by leveraging the remake through explorative research or serendipity. He...

Sociedad Concreta is a behind closed-doors project based on the concept of the sacred, contact and the intimate experience of art in a time of public display and the retreat of the unique. In the mann...

In the Last of the Soviets, journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievitch remarks that history is usually told under the abrasive light of day, therefore subtracting nightlife accounts from any official1...

Our perceptible reality is heightened when it is not fully day nor fully night; an excess of light dazzles us while its total absence blinds us. It is in twilight when the eye loses its acuity for col...

Negotiating our way through a world in which our emotional, intellectual and physical fabrics are permeated with catastrophe can be highly fraught. Our routines always hold out the temptation of remai...

“(sorry if you missed the show)”, Pierre Descamps’ last solo exhibition at The Goma gallery, presents a series of exhibition posters of different sizes, such as can be seen in public pla...

Constricto, like a conflation of constrain and construct, exhibits a number of paintings that speak to the architecture of form and the creation of meaning. Starting out from an open and improvised la...

Following his investigation in Pericastó, an extension of dryland in the province of Huesca which has been farmed by his family for three generations, the artist Enrique Radigales decided to stop gro...

In this solo show the Portuguese artist once again probes the universe of things, uncovering a rich poetry within the will of the materials.Through this phenomenologic experience she reveals a chromat...

The English word stroll, from the German strolch [vagabond], differs in just one letter from scroll, another word that denotes displacement, but now used globally to refer to the digital rather than t...

Cristina usually borrows things in order to make things. Perhaps she doesn’t know how to produce new things, perhaps she is intrigued by existing things. Perhaps she is one of those artists who are ...

Javier Arce’s early output was undergirded by a concern with the popularization of the image and its instant consumption, his unease captured in a conflict with the global and reflected in the slown...

It is not usual for an artist to address a painting practice from paper but this has been Miguel Marina’s support of choice for years now, using it to map his aesthetic experiences. Reminiscent of s...

We have got used to accepting the academic world as the legitimate container and transmitter of learning. Today, the responsibility for preserving knowledge is deposited in writing applied to a screen...

After some series of works focused on the deconstruction of drawing and sound, Riccardo Baruzzi turns to autobiographical narrations, revealing the forms and panorama of his youth. “Del disegno e de...

Ernesto Burgos’ practise in recent years has been sustained on the production of three-dimensional works exploiting the malleability of cardboard, later coated in fiberglass and then covered with ch...

After dreaming; the unfocused ceiling, between pillows and flat worlds. An abstraction against the light. Just as I make it out, it fades away. Consciousness has still not kicked in. Almost a floor, a...

The real perception of imaginary space is one of the great concerns of Italian artist Antonio Rovaldi. Four years after cycling around the perimeter of the Italian peninsula photographing the horizon,...

“Material was so entangled in the spiritual that it transcended itself, while still being material” César Aira   The works on show in this exhibition speak to a religious aesthetic that, des...

Pierre Descamps’ body of photographic and sculptural work is largely centred on a portrait of urban architecture. His well-defined, geometric focus emphasises the formalism of urban constructions an...

In her third solo show at the gallery, the Portuguese artist has once again produced a composition from the usual materials in her practice, namely plastic, textiles and wax, while also introducing th...

The film Boothworks, which lends its name to Cristina Garrido’s first exhibition at the gallery, is a pseudo-fictional documentary that narrates, from the optic of the future, how the current art ma...

Lontano is Pablo Accinelli’s first one-person show in Spain. Similarly to the titles of some of his recent exhibitions (Técnicas pasivas, Cae la tarde, Todo el tiempo), here he once again unders...

Javier Arce will be visiting Madrid for his exhibition Doblar la tierra, a statement from an ongoing project that coincides with a vital experience of opening up —and not of isolation as one might e...

In the spring of 1959 Friedrich Jürgenson (1903–1987), a painter, documentary maker and opera singer, placed his tape recorder by an open window of his cabin in the woods near Mölnbo (Sweden). The...

Material Life is an exhibition of paintings selected with a set of unrelated things in mind: a book by  Marguerite Duras (from which the show takes its name) in which the authoress re-frames the prac...

The forces of production precipitate historic events which the human being is then forced to react against. The mass media deliberately obfuscate any attempt to get a clear grasp on an event, and hist...

For his second solo show at The Goma, José Díaz has chosen the word Motorik (psychomotricity), a term coined by music critics to describe the ostinato beat peculiar to krautrock, a brand of experime...

This body of new work is based on photographic material that I took myself or directed to take. Over the last couple of years I attended and documented certain folkloristic rituals in southern Germa...

Pierre Descamps’s second exhibition at The Goma showcases a compilation of more than fifty photographs taken by the artist over the last ten years. The images depict skateboarding spots in urban set...

After travelling to Switzerland to re-enact Robert Walser’s final walk before his death (Ayer Subí, 2011) and after returning from Milan on bicycle with the restored figurine which he had found in ...

  “I don’t read much about myself, anyway, I just look at the pictures in the articles, it doesn’t matter what they say about me; I just read the textures of the words.” Andy Warhol Simil...

For her second solo show at The Goma, the Portuguese artist Ana Santos recreates a universe in which the boundaries between drawing, object and painting vanish. Santos is drawn to the process of exoge...

While in his first exhibition at The Goma a few years ago, Ernesto Burgos combined all kinds of elements to produce sculptures that also had room for painting, the US artist’s recent work has fused ...

calligram (also calligramme; from French, from Greek kallos beauty + gramma letter) 1. A word or piece of text in which the design and layout of the letters creates a visual image related to the meani...

One can imagine a dystopia where the digital promise of the early 2000s, aseptic and associated with a flourishing new economy, has degenerated into a monstrous Big Data expanding like an oil slick th...

The present moment is the least distinct.  Today, ever-shorter time periods are demarcating generational eras, making obsolescence a greater threat than ever and rediscovery a greater possibility tha...

The title of this exhibition—Moco de caracol, enjundia de gallina, jugo verde de sapo (snail slime, chicken fat, green toad sap)—the first by José Díaz (Madrid, 1981) at The Goma, borrows the wo...

Till Gerhard’s second exhibition at The Goma has its precedents in The Fairy Trail, a film co-directed by the artist and released just a few months ago. Better known for his facet as a painter, in t...

In 1925 Werner Heisenberg elaborated the uncertainty principle which asserts the impossibility of certain pairs of physical properties being known simultaneously with exact precision. In other words, ...

The Goma is pleased to present the first exhibition in Spain of the work of Pierre Descamps (Amiens, 1975). The show features large wall and floor sculptures as well as photos taken in urban settings....

Milan. October 7,2013   Dear Borja, Here the sky is overcast and it has been raining non-stop since this morning. After having gone through a whole spate of doubts and changes of mind, I have fin...

José Luis Cortés-Santander’s second exhibition at The Goma borrows its inspiration from the event that took place in 1966 in Florence when the river Arno overflowed its banks. As a result, million...

A year after Jugada a Tres Bandas 2012, Ana Santos is back exhibiting at The Goma, this time with a solo show. The artist’s practice is generally predicated on a compilation of found objects and mat...

The Goma is pleased to present a project by Pablo Accinelli and Sofia Borges created in an interpretative loop structure, curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto for Jugada a 3 Bandas event. As a starting poi...