Cat, Snake And Dutch Tomatoes

On the 14th June Javier Arce, then-current artist in residence at 1646, hosted an informal meeting for a reduced number of people, 12 max., with lunch included.

The work of Javier Arce is characterised by his special attention to drawing, especially in the extension of this discipline to new territories and also the search and investigation of its specificity in the general field of contemporary artistic creation. But his work also addresses the field of video in cases where the project needs a broader and more explicit narrative, as well as installation, a field in which he has been insisting in recent years. Recently, the artist located geographically and thematically his work in a shepherd’s cabin in the mountains of Cantabria, where he presented a lucid relationship between the local and the global, the personal and the political, between the natural landscape and contemporary conflicts and, in short, between the individual desire and the collective impulse.