Aixa Portero - Artista Contemporánea Española

VISIT THE VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE PAX NATURA EXHIBITION BY THE ARTIST AIXA PORTERO AT THE CAC MÁLAGA

CAC MÁLAGA PRESENTS THE VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE PAX NATURA EXHIBITION IN AIXA PORTERO WITH THE COLLABORATION OF PHOTOGRAPHER JOSÉ LUIS GUTIÉRREZ

The CAC Málaga shows the first virtual tour of the CAC Málaga – La Coracha exhibition hall, carried out in collaboration with the photographer from Málaga, José Luis Gutiérrez. This virtual tour offers viewers the opportunity to go online through the Pax Natura exhibition by Malaga-born artist Aixa Portero, which could be seen in the CAC Málaga – La Coracha exhibition hall until September 25.

The virtual tour of the Pax Natura exhibition of the artist Aixa Portero, curated by Almudena Ríos, shows a selection of the most important series of Aixa Portero’s artistic career made up of almost twenty works, 248 pieces including painting, photography, drawing, sculpture and installation of different formats that covers the period from 2015 to the present. Including in the areas of points of interest, sounds, videos, external links, to appreciate all the details of the exhibited works and ensure that the visitor has a totally immersive experience.

Within the virtual tour they will be able to complete their experience by delving into the relative information of each one of the works as well as a commented visit made by the artist of 13:13 minutes in which she selects the most representative works of the sample .

The viewer will be able to delve into the works of Aixa Portero that reflect on peace from nature, referring to the most intrinsic part of peace itself, showing its interior and exterior nature, from its origin.

José Luis Gutiérrez is a photographer from Malaga whose studio develops its activity in the field of commercial and advertising photography, in which he has carried out many commissions in very different fields of photography, such as food, fashion, architecture and interior design, advertising campaigns , high-quality 360º virtual visits and, especially, reproduction of works of art and photography for museums.

His work has been recognized with awards such as the Echo Gold Award, the Imán de Plata Award and the Agrippina Award for Advertising in the category of advertising photography

The virtual tour will be available until the end of the year.

BIO

Aixa Portero (1975) was born in Malaga, Spain and she is a recognised artist trained in the Plastic Arts (painting and sculpture) at the Facultad de Bellas Artes, Granada, where she finished her undergraduate studies at the Brussels Sint Lukas Hoger Instituut (Belgium) and developed an interest in new artistic trends and new media and the culture of peace, comprehensively amply rounding off her training abroad. She undertook advanced professional training in Visual Arts Research at the L’Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel de Genève (now HEAD-ESGE) in Geneva (Switzerland). Her post-graduate studies continues with the Piet Zwart Institute, the Fine Art Programme at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and later it was artist/researcher in New Media Art at the University of California, San Diego, in the Department of Visual Arts (USA), where she carried out a good part of the research that led to a Doctorate Europaeus in 2006 at the University of Granada including an intense body of plastic work. This featured a dozen individual at more than 30 joint exhibitions both at the national and international level. She has exhibited in locations such as Brussels, Geneva, Rotterdam, San Diego, Havana, Los Angeles, Paris, Minsk, Vilna or Bogotá.

THE ILLUSTRATED FOREST

EXIBITION 2022

“The Illustrated Forest” is the exhibition proposal by the artist Aixa Portero for the Monasterio de San Juan de Burgos. Held from October to 2022 and curated by Mª Victoria Arribas Roldán, the exhibition, which takes place within the framework of LIBRARTE (Artists’ Book Fair of Castilla y León) is an invitation to wander through a forest of books, not only because of the large installation of books hanging in the central nave of the church (The Roots of Flight) which presents us, like a forest, with books ajar, at different heights, and whose letters rest on the floor. But also, in a certain way, in the vestibule before the cloister, the LibrEs Plumas (feather-books) and the series of books in Poiesis display cases.
Thus, the book is a symbol of intellectuality and communication; the feathers are a symbol of freedom; the root symbolises what we carry within us: our insecurities, our fears, who we are and what we are…; the branches, which are root-branches, roots that the artist has transformed into branches, in allusion to inner freedom and resilience. Also present in her work is the concept of “flight”, or the aerial: branches, feathers, butterflies, books suspended in the air… which show not only the idea of flight, but also that of ascent.