2 years of Fire Escape
Group show and anniversary event. Deconstrucción, in English Deconstruction, is the name of the exhibition which we celebrate our 2 years of life.
For the birthday of this young and energetic gallery, we full of surprises, the group exhibition Deconstruction, curated by Anna García and María Castillo, in collaboration with Art Deal Project and theorized by Javier Moreno, creator of the manifesto that brings together the work of the ten leading artists and their works. From Fire Escape, we want this manifesto to be the catalyst for the rupture between gender stereotypes. Therefore, through the 10 artworks that were exhibited in our gallery, we offer a new reading that will allow us to question many of the classifications related to this type of role, an effort aimed at questioning the genre, without plots or borders.
Anna García, Bälu, Beatriz Suárez Saa , Carmen Hurtado, Curro Gómez, Emilio Subirá, Gerard Calderón, Miguel Leal, Rocío Verdejo & Tea Guarascio.
The opening was plenty of cake, drinks and live music for all kinds of bodies and souls.
El Beso by Anna García
Solo show. Showcasing El Beso, Anna García’s videoart at LOOP Barcelona Video Art Festival.
Fire Escape at LOOP Festival Barcelona May 2014.
180Hilos gold edition
Group show. 180Hilos Gold edition brings together for the first time the graphic work in serigraphy in large format by Álex Trochut, Ceesepe, Conrad Roset, Óscar Mariné, Joan Pere Viladecans.
Some of the artist were signing the artworks at the gallery so public could meet them in person.
Fire Escape Barcelona May 2014.
Mad Face by Miguel Leal
Solo show. Mad Face is a personal project that the artist Miguel Leal investigates unknown lines of expression. Leal began experimenting for the first time with photography, resulting in unforeseen experiences and a new creative universe. Portraits of the dark side of the human being. The hidden self is fixed by light to a sensitive material representing the most sordid everyday life.
Mad Face shows the arrogance of our social masks, exposed to the public with humour, hooliganism, much irony and some shivering. The latent antagonism of nature is also revealed in MAD FACE, faces hidden from naked bodies. And it gathers something else, which is everywhere; beauty expressing itself in the language dictated by Miguel Leal.
Opening Circuit. Fire Escape has been chosen as one of the leading galleries of the artistic circuit of the largest international gay and lesbian leisure-cultural festival in Europe, the Circuit Festival. On Thursday, August 7, the gallery celebrates the Opening Circuit with a performance and the Mad Face expo by Miguel Leal on the walls of the Fire Staircase.
The performance by the artist in which he will intervene to a real person creating a Mad Face of flesh and blood. Its action will happen on the days of the Circuit Festival, so of course, the music will be present. While Leal turns a human being into a work of art, music will be played by Matinée All-Star Javier Medina.
MORE. Live! Mad Face. During 12 hours the gallery will become the workshop of Miguel Leal, where the artist will intervene live. Those who want to make their Mad Face are invited, from 11.00 am to 11.00 pm. you can go through the Fire Escape to see the creative process and work of the artist as well as to pose as models and take your customized Mad Face . All this will be broadcast in streaming video from the gallery website.
Fire Escape Barcelona July 2014.
Open Air Fest Barcelona
Art Festival /Art Market. Open Air Fest Barcelona. Music, art and design at the historic building of the Barcelona University.
Fire Escape at Open Air Barcelona July 2014.
Pearson group show
Group show. The Barcelona brand ‘Pearson Longboards’ handed out 15 skateboards of its most recent models to 15 national artists of different modalities and gave them the freedom to turn these pieces of maple wood into authentic pieces of art.
Fire Escape Barcelona July 2014.
Accende Lumen Sensibus by Curro Gómez
Solo show. Accende Lumen Sensibus, disturbing slogan gives us the key to the work that Curro Gómez presented in Fire Escape. In this exhibition, we found a selection of his works with a key objective, to turn the senses with the light of knowledge. Accende Lumen Sensibus is a verse taken from the Catholic liturgy of the ninth century that invokes the Holy Spirit as a guide to knowledge.
Curro aims to perversely recode the religious symbols and mass culture to activate in the viewer that knowledge but based on the questioning of everything, tradition and the overlapping of elements that have happened throughout history. This constant change has led to the integration of iconic elements, the abandonment of some and the mutation of others. In this sense, he points to a technique with which he has been experimenting for many years, the superposition of elements in various pictorial techniques.
In the exhibition, Accende Lumen Sensibus, Curro Gómez plays to subvert the images by scraped paint, intervened with collage elements, rubber seals, etching, sprays a clear component that drinks from the sources of street art carried inside on paper, canvas and wood.
Exhibition curated by Art Deal Project. Fire Escape Barcelona October 2014.
Sericum, tipos & graphis by 180Hilos
Group show. Curated by Fire Escape. Exhibition of 180Hilos silkscreen showcasing at Print Workers Barcelona.
Baby Doll vs Baby Boy by Lydia Zimmermann
Solo show. Introducing the filmming work of Lydia Zimmermann, writer and a filmmaker, in the frame of Barcelona Flux Festival.
NON ACTION is one of the nine chapters of STAND IN, a film essay about the narratives of filmmaking. Here we take the camera’s point of view during the preparation of a film set where the actors are themselves spectators.
Fire Erscape Flux Festival Barcelona November 2014.
Fire Market 3rd edition
Art market. Fire walk with me. More than 40 artists showcasing their artworks in a crazy ridiculous price making possible the Fire Escape’s philosophy about closing art to everyone.
180Hilos · Amaia Arrazola · BLD · Barba · Paula Bonet · Irene Bou · Brosmind · Maite Caballero · Cane · Borja Casterad · El Diluvio Universal · El Naufraguito · Entiendo · Dario Furente · Alicia G. · Anna García · Alexander Grahovsky · Krasznai · La cabeza en las nubes · Miguel Leal · Lentejas Press · Ana de Lima · Maristella Mangipinto · Laura Martin · Alex Martínez · Mixtura · Jaume Monserrat · Cristian Montesinos · Elisa Munsó · Óscar Noguera · Jorge Ochagavía · Kike del Olmo · OCabrita · Publications for Pleasure · Rubeniminchi · Javier Rubín · Rafa San Emeterio · Pau Sanz i Vila · Synthzine Valle Eléctrico · Joan Tarragó · Ultramarins · Urbarna · Teo Vázquez · Blanca Viñas
Fire Escape Barcelona December 2014.
La Vitrina at La Penúltima
Different artists, art installation, group or solo. Our belief in exhibiting art in unusual spaces, La Penúltima, a typical Barcelona winery, has given us a place within its wonderful space, La Vitrina. We have been fortunate to occupy that special space on different occasions. The aim is to showcase artists through their installations in the showcase. From Fire Escape we thank you infinitely for giving us this showcase to advance on this path of artistic diffusion.
Artists, Zigor Azkargorta, Anna García, Kraznai, Dario Furente, Alex Martínez and Woodamp.
Fire Escape at La Penúltima Barcelona 2014.