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La Conservera Announces Third Series of Exhibitions

MURCIA, SPAIN.- La Conservera will open its third series of exhibitions by Valentin Carron, FOD, Manu Muniategiandikoetxea, Eva Rothschild and Gert & Uwe Tobias. These five artists, for the most part sculptors, share a set of common concerns and interests and are all engaged in redefining, revising, appropriating or deconstructing concepts and forms grounded in the various movements associated with modernism, focusing their work on an exploration of new materials and conventional techniques. Valentin Carron works across sculpture, painting and installation. He reproduces real objects or elements with a symbolicly charged meaning from his own environment as well as from broader cultural contexts. For his first exhibition in Spain, he is presenting in “Space 1” a work called “Fibre fibre, austère austère” produced by La Conservera. The work comprises twelve elements, each a large wall-like object. These walls look like rough