THE IMPOSSIBLE QUEST

The Impossible Quest, group exhibition integrated within La Noche En Blanco's visual arts circuit, takes as its starting point the anti-heroic task of creating a parallel project to La Noche En Blanco's own format. Javier Fresneda, Lilli Hartmann and Patricia Esquivias explore the space of the former cold store room at Matadero. The notion of the artist understood as non-practical agent able to modify what we thought was safe and unquestionable.    JAVIER FRESNEDA. Maximalismo New episode of The Multiple Mountain project, which addresses the complex relationship between the notions of success and failure in art, and in which the futility of the artistic act is compared with the futility of mountaineering. Maximalismo has led the artist to investigate the most difficult paths of ascension at fourteen eight thousand. An arduous and symbolic work that approaches the montaineer's glorious but useless effort of climbing mountains.

In short, the artist plays with the epic conquest, without second thoughts, bringing us back to the harsh reality that defines the transience of success.   LILLI HARTMANN. All We Need Is A Problem Lilli Hartmann's work is based on installation and performance. A dynamic exploration of mundane daily life through the melodramatic  nature of the human condition and a parodic vision of art. In All We Need Is A Problem Hartmann draws inspiration from the solemnity of the medieval epic, with a stage halfway between the sublime and the ridiculous: a large stone with an inscription of a delirious combination of opposite words, that works as a memorial absurd, a scenario of a pathetic and anti-heroic knight that rests beside it. The luck of a troubadouresque story that rather than telling a great feat, builds a story seemingly irrelevant.    PATRICIA ESQUIVIAS. Untitled The artist uses a type of speech -voice over- characteristic of her audiovisual works that leads her to the construction of unique and ironic stories such as Untitled, an almost invisible sound work in the exhibition space.

A simple voice that invites to an intimate and personal relationship while drawing up a fictitious X-ray of a public space - something architecturally very similar to the cold store room of Matadero- describing people who have different virtues. A series of special attributes, despite their uniqueness, become useless for the situation and the dialogue that defines this work.