The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) offers illuminated walks through the exhibitions’ Anni and Josef Albers. Art and life ‘and’ End of departure. Jordi Teixidor ‘by the director of photography Marc Gonzalo. In these tours, visitors will interact with the works of art using different instruments, such as spectrographs, filters or light boxes, in order to question the reality of what we see.
Does color exist? Is light tangible? «Light and color are essential elements in works of art, often considered as fixed values. However, they are mutable and constantly moving elements”, explains Marc Gonzalo. “Through various instruments we can measure light and perceive colors in different ways, showing other kinds of relationships that defy our understanding,” he adds.
The illuminated walks will begin with the works of the Valencian Jordi Teixidor, who works the absence of light with the use of black, to which he juxtaposes other colors, and will continue with his other chromatic explorations. The tours pay special attention to the exhibition that the IVAM dedicates to Anni and Josef Albers, key figures in experimentation with the use of colour.
Participants will interact with Josef Albers’s ‘Homage to the Square’ series, where the artist explores the interaction of colours, with each other and with the environment, as well as with the hand-woven panels made by Anni Albers for the B’nai congregation Israel of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, which are on display here for the first time.
The visits will take place on May 28 and 29 and June 4, 5, 11 and 12 with an approximate duration of sixty minutes. Prior registration is required through the IVAM website.
Marc Gonzalo was born in Valencia. He is a cinematographer and lighting designer. Shortly after graduating in History from the University of Valencia he became interested in lighting and photography, so he decided to train in this field.
In 2004 he graduated from the Center d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya. Since then, he has collaborated in numerous audiovisual projects and theater companies, as director of photography and lighting designer. Currently, he works in film, television and theater between Europe and South America.
