The Malvasia Room of the DEARTE Foundation in the Doge’s Palace in Medinaceli (Soria) will host the new exhibition “PLAKAS” by Toledo artist Fernando Silva this Saturday from November 8th to 30th. This exhibition invites us to think about this matrix. … About origins and diversity, the traces that remain, and the transformations that occur during the creative process.
At the inauguration ceremony held on the 8th, he was also presented with a collection of poems, “Des de el Sur de Nuestros Corazons” by the poet Luis Cionda, who was in attendance. This volume will soon be supplemented with an illustrated version of Fernando Silva’s work, continuing the long-standing artistic and editorial collaboration between both creators, where words and images intertwine as complementary forms of expression.
Between tradition and experimentation
In PLAKAS, Silva proposes a visual journey between the traditional and the experimental, the tangible and the virtual. His work begins with the plate, a classic matrix of sculpture as multiple areas: metal surfaces, stone, wood, and digital files. This exhibition proposes a dialogue between physical gesture and digital memory, the persistence of objects and the fluidity of codes.
The artist “explores this duality with the same freedom with which physics understood the coexistence of waves and particles. The work created on aluminum sheet integrates both manual intervention and the support of digital files, opening up a space where technology becomes a cultural act, a contemporary way of leaving traces and transmitting experience,” says Rachel Lamott.
integrated trajectory
Born in Toledo in 1955. Fernando Silva is a multidisciplinary plastic artist. Having studied Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country and graduated from the School of Applied Arts and School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid and Toledo, he has been dedicated to teaching for 37 years and was part of the Tormo Group from 2004 to 2010.
He has exhibited work at Tebas Gallery (Madrid) and Fucares Gallery (Almagro, Ciudad Real) and participated in over 40 group exhibitions and over 20 solo exhibitions in Spain, France, Japan and the United States. His work can currently be seen at the digital art biennial “The Wrong,” which opened on November 1st.
With PLAKAS, Silva returns to his original realm: the realm of dialogue between technology, time, and materials. Ink and heat, analog and digital, fingerprints and memory. An exhibition that makes the viewer pause in front of the procession as a symbol of origin, repetition, and infinite possibilities.
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