GALERIA REUS


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Galería Reus is a contemporary art gallery based in Mallorca whose trajectory dates back to 2003. Over the years, the project has evolved through different forms of collaboration and programming, consolidating itself as a space dedicated to the research, production, and dissemination of contemporary art.

The gallery works with emerging and mid-career artists, supporting the development of their practices while creating a context for dialogue, experimentation, and reflection around the diverse forms of contemporary artistic expression. Its program is characterized by a diversity of languages and approaches, as well as an interest in establishing connections between the local artistic scene and the international context.

From Mallorca, Galería Reus aims to actively contribute to the contemporary cultural ecosystem by promoting projects that encourage exchange, artistic research, and the development of new perspectives.


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Represented
Alejandro Javaloyas
Callum Green
Daniel Roibal
Elen Braga
José Fiol
Karolina Albricht
Julià Panadés
Marian Garrido
Miquel Ponce




CollaboratorsAbel Jaramillo
Alexandra Hunts
Erika Trotzig
David Martín
Irati Inoriza
Tommy Lecot
Evgenia Duvnikova
Daniel Dominguez
Martin Paaskesen
Ricardo Cases






LA FRÁGIL MAGIA DEL EMBRUJO - SOLO SHOW

Miquel Ponce




Dates
 23/03/2024 – 01/06/2024

Text In ‘Infinite Jest’ there is a chapter where Hal Incandenza's character talks on the phone with his brother about their father's suicide while cutting his nails. In the middle of such a depressing conversation, Hal realizes that he is putting them all in the trash and tells his brother that he doesn't want to change anything about his position so as not to lose the streak. This is what he refers to as “the fragile magic of the spell.”

In psychology, the moment in which a person is completely immersed in the activity they are carrying out is called “the zone.” It has happened to all of us to lose track of time doing what we enjoy, to be like machines, to dilute the ego and to be just a perfectly executed activity. Become the result of our actions.

There is no method to win at roulette. Many have tried and officially no one has succeeded. There are too many factors that are impossible to control: the speed of spin of the roulette wheel, its inclination, the weight of the ball, the obstacles it encounters along the way... It is impossible, but at the same time it should just be applied physics.

“The zone” is like a casino that reserves the right of admission, we cannot enter whenever we want no matter how much we insist. We can reach a mechanical and robotic state but only when fortune wants. We are not machines and therefore we cannot “force the machinery”. We cannot force that quasi-mystical state, we cannot demand that inspiration serve us as a slave, we cannot listen to a cadence that is simply not present. Until we start listening to it.

In the late 1970s, a group of physics students at the University of California who called themselves the Eudaimones (after the term that describes a life well lived according to Aristotle) tried to hack the machinery, to design a mathematical system. to listen to the cadence of the universe to always be on a roll. With a small computer inside a shoe, they measured the spin rate of the Las Vegas roulette wheels and the speed of the ball. It is physics after all.

An artist lives by paying attention to that cadence. Develop manias, tics, obsessions and routines like a tennis player before serving, hoping not to break the streak, hoping to find inspiration around every corner. Cadence means the rhythm at which an action is generated over time, but at the same time it shares a root with the term “fall”. Cadent means something that threatens ruin. An action that does not cease has its own inevitable cessation implicit in its root. An artist, an athlete and a player are always one small bump away from losing their streak forever.

The fragile magic of the spell is delicate. The Eudaimones soon realized that after years, money and a few singed feet the streak cannot be forced. Some, like Hal, have cadence in their name, while artists like Ponce seem to have a sixth sense so that inspiration catches them working, to listen to the cadence of the universe, so as not to break the fragile magic of the spell.


Albert Alcañiz