WITH HANDS SIGNS GROW

Pre-opening: April 20th & 21st, 2022

FORMAT- EXHIBITION AT THE SIGNUM FOUNDATION PALAZZO DONÀ
COLLATERAL EVENT of the 59th INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION – LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

04.23.20 – 11.27.20

Initiative of Odalys Foundation and Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà
With the support of Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira (Ministerio de Cultura y
deporte de España)

THE PLACE Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà, Campo San Polo 2177, Venezia.
CURATOR Alfonso de la Torre
ARTISTS Ruth Gómez, Nuria Mora, Daniel Muñoz, Sixe Paredes
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Juan Carlos Moya
PROJECT MANAGER Paulina Przyborowska, Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà

As an initiative of the Odalys Foundation and the Signum Foundation, with the support
of Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira (Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte,
Spain), have enabled an intervention project in the Palazzo Donà, Italian headquarters of Signum
Foundation, which includes several site-specific projects conceived for different rooms of the
Palazzo. It is a group of four young artists (Ruth Gómez, Nuria Mora, Daniel Muñoz and Sixe
Paredes), contemporary creators who work with some discursive lines such as the use of space,
architectural supports and languages such as painting or drawing, whose creation process has a
characteristic in common: the desire to share their vision of the world through art. In such a way that
these interventions now in the space of the Palazzo could be defined as a set of micro-narratives
from the personal territory of each artist, a territory that is public -now- but also unchallenged,
because of its historical burden.
Two female and two male artists will work on a plan or spatial representation of the site, each
of them relating to a wall or room of the Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà. The artists create
installation proposals not only on vertical walls but on the floor or other elements of the exhibition
space such as windows, along with other languages as in the case of tapestry, or that can deploy
tridimensionally by means of elements that can be easily transportable and also allow further
transfers. Possibly sketched at their studio to be then completed and placed in the Palazzo, thus
avoiding affecting the structural or historical elements of the Palazzo.
A multiple work in the inner hall of the Palazzo, in the form of a large assemblage of images,
will evoke the Cave of Altamira. The images will be provided by this Museum. Proposals to link
Palaeolithic art with contemporary art, fulfilling the vision proposed in the project.

ARTISTS

RUTH GÓMEZ
CAVES

RUTH GÓMEZ (Valladolid, 1976) has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad de Salamanca.
She has participated in international fairs such as Art Dubai, Art Lisboa, PULSE Miami, Art Fiera
in Bologna, FNB Joburg in Johannesburg, SP Arte Sao Paulo, ARCOmadrid, EXPO Zaragoza, SH
Shanghai or The Armory Show in New York. Her work has been shown in museums such as MUSAC
in León, DA2 in Salamanca, CAC Málaga, ARTIUM in Vitoria, MNBA in Buenos Aires, San Diego
Museum of Art or MOCA in Seoul among others; in the Cervantes Institute in São Paulo, Rio de
Janeiro, Brasilia, Salvador de Bahía, Milan and Tokyo and in festivals such as PARALLAX in Belgrade,
SFIAF in San Francisco or FIBart in Benicàssim. She has had solo exhibitions at Oliva Arauna, La
New Gallery and La Juan Gallery in Madrid; Mário Sequeira in Braga; Jozsa Gallery in Brussels or
Espacio Marzana in Bilbao. She has been awarded the prize for Plastic Arts and Photography of the
Spanish Chamber of Commerce in France and has received scholarships from the Ministry of Culture
at the College of Spain in Paris, MUSAC and others. She has published several artist books, made a
video clip for the group Fangoria, has been the image of Capital Animal, has collaborated with the
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and is present in collections such as MUSAC, ARTIUM, CAC, MAS,
the Coca-Cola Foundation or the Reina Sofia. She lives and works in Madrid.

NURIA MORA
XYZ-TRANSCENDING PHYSICAL LIMITS

NURIA MORA (Madrid 1974) She began her artistic career in the late nineties. She is exclusively
focused on painting, using a diversity of media and media such as painting, light, sound,
transcending mere stealth intervention and taking it to a more universal level. She studied Interior
Architecture at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid ETSAM and Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine
Arts of Universidad Complutense de Madrid. At the same time, she makes numerous interventions
in different cities around the world and begins a parallel tour in commercial galleries and art fairs,
being Arco 05 the first fair she participated in. From the geometric abstraction in public space and
its furniture in a constructive and non-invasive way until today, her painting language speaks of
memory and the construction of personal memories and cartographies. Her work has been exhibited
in international galleries and museums in places such as São Paulo, Sweden, the Netherlands,
Germany, NYC , Beijing, Mexico City, including: Tate Modern in London, the Joan Miró Foundation
in Barcelona, Le Pilori in Niort, France, or the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca, and the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Johannesburg. She is also a member of the collective “Equipo
Plástico” together with SixeArt, Eltono & Nano4814.

DANIEL MUÑOZ
DRAG IMAGE

DANIEL MUÑOZ (Moraleja, Cáceres, 1980). He began his artistic career in the early nineties
focused exclusively on mural painting. In 2000 he began his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of
the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. At the same, time he made numerous interventions in
European cities, establishing drawing as the basic tool of his language. From the beginning, his
work has taken place in the public space and, consequently, his discourse has always addressed
issues related to the modification of the environment by the individual, as a response to the
imperative use of it by institutional and private powers. His artistic practice questions some
contradictions that imply the regularization of public art, its relationship with architecture and the
other elements that make up the social landscape, as well as the frictions of these practices with
the market and the different agents that elaborate the discourses of contemporary art. All his
works interweave codes from different fields such as history, anthropology, advertising language
or popular culture. Using certain narratives typical of classical painting, he raises ideas in relation
to the current hyperaccess to images, confronting apparently mundane matters with the supposed
solemnity of artistic language. During the last few years, he has made numerous interventions and
exhibitions in cities in Europe, North America, South America, Asia and the Middle East. It is worth
mentioning some art centers such as the BACC Museum in Bangkok (Thailand), the National Art
Gallery of Amman (Jordan), the CEART (Fuenlabrada) or galleries such as Walter Otero (Puerto Rico)
or Luis Adelantado (Valencia). His work has been published in numerous books and publications.

SIXE PAREDES
PALEOLITHIC FUTURISM

SIXE PAREDES (Barcelona, 1975). Sergio Hidalgo Paredes, known as SIXE PAREDES, began
his artistic career in the late 1980s and had his own studio in the late 1990s working with various
artistic formats such as painting, sculpture and installation. This is how he creates his own workshop
developing a work that will define him as a plastic artist. Currently, he explores an abstract universe
of color endowed with shapes and symbols showing a very personal aesthetic which makes him
quickly recognizable visually and make up his own unique identity and his artistic originality. An
evolution that has led him to develop an abstraction that is based on a very diverse and intense
color palette, with a complex symbolism and a meticulous mastery of geometric shapes. It also
includes numerical cryptography, which in the form of what he calls “circuits” makes the viewer
“connect” with another deeper reality.
Meanwhile, and to this day, he continues his artistic career combining both the public and the
intimate, through artistic interventions in the street and the constant work in his studio. He
His continuous travels around the world and his interest in ancient cultures and primitive art have
been key in the development of his artistic work, with special influence of ancestral cosmovisions,
in particular of the pre-Hispanic Andean culture. This has artistically led to the use of ancient
techniques such as ceramics or looms, with which he has expanded his artistic language. Another
great influence is nature, present in practically all his work. His work represents one of the most
notable Spanish references. His work has been exhibited in spaces and galleries around the world,
as well as first class institutions such as the Tate Modern, in London, where he painted the facade in
2008 in the exhibition “Street Art”. Currently, he continues his career combining both the public and
the intimate, through artistic interventions in the street and the constant work in his studio.

Palazzo Donà, Campo San Polo, Wenecja