ART MEETS APOLO unites clubbing and art in different spaces of the venue
ART MEETS APOLO is a multidisciplinary exhibition project that addresses the relationship between club culture and art through the eyes of different artists from the city.
The art gallery and the club have always existed in constant opposition: while the former is associated with observation and stillness, the other tends to relate to agitation and chaos. However, both are platforms for the personal expression of both the author and the receiver, creating emotionally intense and immersive experiences.
The point of intersection between clubbing and the art world, so intimately linked, is precisely what has pushed the venue to create a project that helps to strengthen ties and experience these realities as a whole.
To this end, Apolo opens its doors to non-musical artists from different disciplines, both renowned and young emerging talents, with local and equal representation as the backbone. Their works will be exhibited for months, so that the public who come to the venue can enjoy them during concert and club sessions.
To develop and coordinate the project, we have aligned ourselves with the gallery LAB 36, the parallel project to Galería Senda, and the cultural agency Screen Projects (LOOP Barcelona), which has allowed us to amplify the effect and purpose of ART MEETS APOLO, bringing together two worlds and their respective artists, audiences, ways of working, knowledge and experiences with a clear benefit: local culture.
"LA FITO. CANTAR COMO UNA CURA POSIBLE" DE FITO CONESA
Fito Conesa is a multifaceted artist who works with art installation and visual and sound elements who presents "La Fito. Cantar como una cura posible", where he pays tribute to the references that have shaped and guided him throughout his life and that led him to the city of Barcelona.
The bathrooms of Apolo will host two sound reinterpretations created by himself and reproduced on loop that are inspired by the figure of Paco España, one of the pioneers of transformism who gained great popularity during the spanish Transition.
For the author, the creation "is a kind of conceptual exorcism" in which he recalls the invisible and silent lives of a past that, nevertheless, have also forged the character of the city.
"VERS(U)S" DE A C
Ada Morales and Carla Puig are two young artists united under the nickname "A C" (I see), in relation to the light and installation resources they work with.
The work VERS(U)S consists of two light installations that want to establish a dialogue between industry and nature and how light affects our emotions and transforms spaces.
The first concept design as a team was in the courtyard of the LAB 36 gallery; a joint process that has evolved inside Apolo, invading the corridor between the Hall and La (2) of atmospheric phenomena.
"INTERPOLATIONS" DE MILICA LUKIC
Barcelona-based Serbian artist Milica Lukic (Belgrade, 1959) works with sculptural projects based on primary structures and specific objects that form geometric figures.
"Interpolations" is the artwork digitized by Misato Kindness Studio that transforms the lines of a sketch by Lukic into a new modular structure that becomes progressively complex. The work invites reflection on the genesis of form and space and on how human creativity can transcend simplicity to reach new dimensions of expression.
"SOY TODO OREJAS" BY ALBA RIHE
The multidisciplinary artist and member of musical groups such as Las Bistecs, Alba Rihe, presents the work ‘Soy todo orejas’ (I'm all ears), housed in La (3) de Apolo. It is a sound installation based on the idea of the lamentation wall and made up of 100 latex ears, with 20 of them activated with loudspeakers connected to a looping audio player for 43 minutes, generating a meticulously recorded and edited sound chaos.
Combining architecture with sonority, the work reproduces looped messages, conversations, songs, secrets... entering a magical realism where the walls have human connotations and can listen and store all the information they hear.
"[EXISTS IN NON-ENGLISH]" BY SEJAL PAREKH
The British-Indian artist based in Barcelona, Sejal Parekh, presents the work ‘[EXISTS IN NON-ENGLISH]’, a video installation located between La (2) and La (3), which reflects on how language shapes our identities.
The work focuses on everyday actions or life stages - closing a door, brushing our teeth, sneezing, overthinking, folding laundry or dying - that we do without using English, conceived as the dominant language. Moreover, it uses the aesthetics of the illuminated panels of food shops or 24h supermarkets, many of them run by migrants.
ARTWORKS NOT AVAILABLE
✦ “Accumbens” de Pedro Torres
✦ “Apolo Paradís Artificial” de Jordi Gispert Pi
✦ "Psychoflage" de Mónica Rikić